by Danny Miller | Sep 19, 2016 | Features, What's Hot
Like so many people who grew up with The Sound of Music, I was very sad to hear of Charmian Carr’s death this weekend at the age of 73. Carr played Liesl Von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the classic 1965 film The Sound of Music, a film that is still beloved by...
by Danny Miller | Mar 2, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
Fifty years ago today, on March 2, 1965, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music had its gala world premiere at the Rivoli Theater in New York. All the stars of the film were there along with Richard Rodgers, Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein (“I know Oscar would...
by Danny Miller | Feb 22, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
Every year just before the Academy Awards I like to travel 50 years back in time and get a feel for the hoopla leading into that year’s Oscars broadcast. Last year, I was surprised to learn that the host of the 1964 show, Jack Lemmon, someone I assumed was beloved by...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 19, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Performance (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) may have been released in 1970 but this collision of London gangster machismo and drug culture, where “Nothing is true; everything is permitted,” is unmistakably a product of the sixties. Mick Jagger makes his feature...
by Kyle Curtis | Jan 5, 2014 | News
Each year, the Library of Congress selects 25 American-made films to add to the National Film Registry. The Registry was created by the National Film Preservation Act to preserve films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant to...
