Archive for 'Classic Movies'
Doctor Zhivago
Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by admin.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. It grabbed a hold of me from the start and surprised me throughout. It can be placed in a number of genres including romance, war, drama, suspense, etc.
The cast was exceptional. Julie Christie is angelic but seductive at the same time. Omar Sharif is magnificent. And Rod Steiger plays the perfect bad guy. Incredible movie for its time. I give Doctor Zhivago an A+ and a must see movie for classic movie lovers.
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Gone With The Wind
Posted on 03. May, 2010 by admin.
A 14 Year Old’s Perspective on Classic Movies-Article #6
by Emily Hodges
“Gone With The Wind”
Emily Hodges
“Gone With The Wind”. Where to begin? It was a long movie and I have to admit, at first, I thought it was going to be a boring movie. I mean, a long old movie about the civil war? But it surprised me. It was interesting and towards the end, my heart caught in my throat.
In my opinion, Ashley Wilkes did not fit in the society the war left in its wake. He was a studious and a sort of romantic man. With him, it was always dreams. He was untouchable to Scarlett. He may have been her beau before, but Scarlett had had many anyway. Before he left for the war, he married a shy (and later good friend of Scarlett’s) Melanie (Mellie) Hamilton.
Because Scarlett O’ Hara had gone through the trauma of a war, I expected her to straighten up and to forget about Ashley Wilkes. Yet she grew more conniving and selfish. For one, she stole her sister’s beau, Frank Kennedy not for love but for money. Secondly, she did not love the daughter she had with Rhett Butler. To me, that is just plain awful. Would you ever even dream of having a beautiful daughter and not love her?
It seems to me, that Scarlett does not know the meaning of love. She doesn’t know what it is. It might as well be a foreign or lost language to her. She may have felt the loss when Bonnie died, and she might have even felt lonely when Rhett left her. But her heart did not break; She put on a good act. At the end of the first half of the movie was very powerful, “…. for as long as I live, I shall never be hungry again….”
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Robert Taylor Movies
Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by admin.
Right now and through tomorrow, check out Robert Taylor movies on TCM-Turner Classic Movies such as Conspirator, Time Square Lady, Devil’s Doorway, and Small Town Girl.
Taylor made many movies from the 30′s through the 60′s. Toward the end of his career, he ended up mostly in television. He took over the narrator position of Ronald Reagan in Death Valley Days when Reagan began his political career. Robert Taylor continued this role until his death in 1969 when he died of lung cancer at the age of 57.
Watch Robert Taylor now on Turner Classic Movies.
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Too Many Classic Movies to Remember!
Posted on 21. Mar, 2010 by admin.
There are so many classic movies to remember. I need to and have been working on making a classic movie list and placing them into movie categories such as decade and year, as well as genre. There are a ton of old movies. It is an opinion what are the best classic movies of each movie era. I guess the most popular movies are up to debate. Maybe it is best to put as many as possible into a classic movie list but that would take forever. Any suggestions? Which movies would you like to see and talk about in the blog? How many are too many, LOL!
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by admin.
For your viewing pleasure, watch the YouTube videos of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. They are one of the most fun-loving duos in classic film.
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Christmas Movies
Posted on 28. Nov, 2009 by admin.
The Thanksgiving holiday begins the tradition of watching classic Christmas movies, such as “Its a Wonderful Life”, “Miracle on 34th Street”, “A Christmas Story”, “A Christmas Carol” and the classic Christmas cartoons like “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Frosty, the Snowman”, “Rudolph” and more.
What is your favorite classic Christmas movie?
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Happy Thanksgiving
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Happy Thanksgiving from Classic Movie World!
The Thanksgiving holiday begins the tradition of watching classic Christmas movies, such as “Its a Wonderful Life”, “Miracle on 34th Street”, “A Christmas Story”, “A Christmas Carol” and the classic Christmas cartoons like “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Frosty, the Snowman”, “Rudolph” and more. I can’t wait!
What are your favorite Christmas movies?
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“Harvey”
Posted on 15. Aug, 2009 by admin.
Continuing Column: A 13 Year Old’s Perspective on Classic Movies-Article #6
by Emily Hodges
Harvey (1950)
Harvey is a very funny movie. It may be black and white but it is very enjoyable. My favorite part was in the beginning when Mr. Dowell was introducing Harvey to everybody. They were thinking, “Now that’s a crazy person”. Nobody could see Harvey except Mr. Dowell, Elwood P. Dowell.
Harvey Movie
Harvey, the invisible, 6’3” tall, rabbit, is a very smart pooka. This means: A creature from Celtic mythology which is a spirit in animal form that is always very large. A pooka appears hear and there, now and then, and to this one and that one; fond of crack heads and pot heads and “How are you Mr. Wilson”. Of course Harvey put that in there to spook Mr. Wilson who was reading that in a dictionary. He was looking around and was like “What the heck!” How spooky!
People looked at Elwood like he was crazy, too!! My favorite (visible) character was Vita, Elwood’s sister. She was a crazy old lady and is also the kind of person who makes a fuss out of everything. You can (now) see how she would react to Elwood coming to live with them. She got so crazy that she tried, and failed, to lock Elwood up at the loony bin. Instead, which is also funny, she gets locked up and Elwood is freed. It’s a very funny play. I loved it a lot.
In one of the scenes, you can see what Harvey looks like. Elwood has a picture of Harvey and himself painted and that he puts in front of Vita’s pictures, above the mantle (picture above).
The play/movie (whatever you want to call it) was a little long, but all in all, it was a pretty good one. I didn’t know what a pooka was until I watched it. It’s interesting that they put one in a movie. It was sweet and Elwood was nice to everyone. He stopped and said hi to strangers in the street. What I thought was pretty weird, considering that Elwood does have some kind of intelligence in the wacky head of his, was that I think that he either forgot the fact that nobody else can see Harvey and will think that Elwood is crazy or he just didn’t want to know or something.
From what I have read about pookas is that they can also come in the form of horses, goblins, and dogs. They can also speak and are spirits in the form of animals, so they are not always just animals. They just take the form of them.
Emily Hodges
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Favorite Classic Movie
Posted on 06. Mar, 2009 by admin.
What is your favorite Classic Movie? Perhaps you can not name just one but two or three of your classic movie favorites. Some classic movie lovers remember the classic movie stars name better then the old movie titles. Many times, it depends more on the favorite movie stars rather than just the favorite classic movie. Think about it, how many classic movies can you name by some of the most famous movie stars of old classic movies. Can you name more than one movie Jimmy Stewart was in? Unless they are considered top classic movies, you would probably remember the classic movie stars over the old movie titles.
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AFI Top Ten
Posted on 28. Feb, 2009 by admin.
AFI Top Ten Movies of all time:
ANIMATION
1 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
2 PINOCCHIO (1940)
3 BAMBI (1942)
4 LION KING, THE (1994)
5 FANTASIA (1942)
6 TOY STORY (1995)
7 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)
8 SHREK (2001)
9 CINDERELLA (1950)
10 FINDING NEMO (2003)
FANTASY
1 WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939)
2 LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
3 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1947)
4 KING KONG (1933)
5 MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947)
6 FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)
7 HARVEY (1950)
8 GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
9 THIEF OF BAGDAD, THE (1924)
10 BIG (1988)
GANGSTER
1 GODFATHER, THE (1972)
2 GOODFELLAS (1990)
3 GODFATHER PART II, THE (1974)
4 WHITE HEAT (1949)
5 BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
6 SCARFACE: THE SHAME OF A NATION (1932)
7 PULP FICTION (1994)
8 PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (1931)
9 LITTLE CAESAR (1931)
10 SCARFACE (1983)
SCIENCE FICTION
1 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
2 STAR WARS: EPISODE IV- A NEW HOPE (1977)
3 E.T. – THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (1982)
4 CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (1971)
5 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE (1951)
6 BLADE RUNNER (1982)
7 ALIEN (1979)
8 TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991)
9 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
10 BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
WESTERN
1 SEARCHERS, THE (1956)
2 HIGH NOON (1952)
3 SHANE (1953)
4 UNFORGIVEN (1992)
5 RED RIVER (1948)
6 WILD BUNCH, THE (1969)
7 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
8 MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)
9 STAGECOACH (1939)
10 CAT BALLOU (1965)
SPORTS
1 RAGING BULL (1980)
2 ROCKY (1977)
3 PRIDE OF THE YANKEES, THE (1943)
4 HOOSIERS (1986)
5 BULL DURHAM (1988)
6 HUSTLER, THE (1961)
7 CADDYSHACK (1980)
8 BREAKING AWAY (1979)
9 NATIONAL VELVET (1945)
10 JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)
MYSTERY
1 VERTIGO (1958)
2 CHINATOWN (1974)
3 REAR WINDOW (1954)
4 LAURA (1944)
5 THIRD MAN, THE (1950)
6 MALTESE FALCON, THE (1941)
7 NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
8 BLUE VELVET (1986)
9 DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
10 USUAL SUSPECTS, THE (1995)
ROMANTIC COMEDY
1 CITY LIGHTS (1931)
2 ANNIE HALL (1977)
3 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
4 ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
5 PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE (1941)
6 WHEN HARRY MET SALLY… (1989)
7 ADAM’S RIB (1949)
8 MOONSTRUCK (1987)
9 HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971)
10 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)
COURTROOM DRAMA
1 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1963)
2 12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
3 KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979)
4 VERDICT, THE (1982)
5 FEW GOOD MEN, A (1992)
6 WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1958)
7 ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
8 IN COLD BLOOD (1967)
9 CRY IN THE DARK, A (1988)
10 JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
EPIC
1 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
2 BEN-HUR (1959)
3 SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
4 GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5 SPARTACUS (1960)
6 TITANIC (1997)
7 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
8 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
9 REDS (1981)
10 TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (1956)
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