1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, that year’s eventual winner. 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees on TCM Turner Classic Movies’ homage to the 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees continues…
The Mollycoddle with Douglas Fairbanks as the title character. Douglas Fairbanks is ‘The Mollycoddle’ for pre-‘Gone with the Wind’ director Victor Fleming Douglas Fairbanks has the title role in the 1920 movie The Mollycoddle. Now,…
Starring Judy Garland and directed by Victor Fleming, the 1939 Best Picture nominee The Wizard of Oz will be screened, digitally from a new 4K restoration, as the final feature in the Academy of Motion…
Under Full Sail. Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas Flicker Alley (website) in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of “Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on…
Based on my understanding of Joseph Conrad’s 1900 novel Lord Jim, the 1925 film version faithfully follows the book’s storyline without capturing its essence. For if Lord Jim the novel is the story of a…
Man to Man: Defense of the human-ape link in mid-19th-century British scientific circles will open the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. Régis Wargnier (Indochine, East/West) directed this tale about how scientists get things wrong – were…