by Danny Miller | Apr 19, 2015 | Interviews, What's Hot
Eighty years ago today, a huge party was held at MGM Studios in Culver City, California. It was April 19, 1935 and every legendary star who was under contract at the studio was there to celebrate the joint birthdays of one of the studio’s oldest stars, May Robson, and...
by Michael Taus | Dec 9, 2013 | News
Via WNYC’s The Take Away, comes an interview with Dan Streible, a professor of cinema studies at New York University and founder of The Orphan Film Symposium. Old movies, whether they be the Hollywood classics of the 1940s or your parent’s home VHS tapes,...
by Sean Axmaker | Nov 23, 2013 | Home Viewing
On Sunday, November 24, Turner Classic Movies presents Le Beau Serge (1958) and Les Cousins (1959), the first two films by French film legend Claude Chabrol and the official birth of the French nouvelle vague. The two confident, mature dramas don’t have the...
by Danny Miller | Nov 3, 2013 | Features
A weekly feature in which my four-year-old son is let loose on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Los Angeles, and chooses a star from among the more than 2,500 honorees. His “random” picks sometimes reveal unexplained...