Archive: May 2016

  • Make Your Own TCM Classic Film Festival

    The TCM Classic Film Festival returns to Hollywood beginning April 28, 2016 and running through Sunday, May 2nd. For many classic film fans, the TCM Classic Film Festival is one of the highlights of the movie year. I've written about the festival here previously, most recently in 2015.The TCM festival is a one-of-a-kind experience, a chance to enjoy movies on the big screen, with filmmakers and historians present to add context to each film screened. Attending is a terrific goal f...

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  • KINO: Bogart in Deadline U.S.A. Gets First Home Video Release in July

    Three titles from Kino are scheduled for release on DVD and Blu-ray in July. Making its home video debut on July 26th is Deadline U.S.A. (1952) starring Humphrey Bogart, Kim Hunter and Ed Begley. The studio will also release Five Miles to Midnight (1962) with Sophia Loren, and 1959's Invisible Invaders starring John Agar. All can be viewed in our Recent Additions section. Invisible Invaders ...

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  • KINO: Pioneers of African American Cinema Arrives in July

    Kino has announced July 26th as the release date for their 5-disc presentation of Pioneers of African American Cinema (1918-1946) on DVD and Blu-ray. The set contains 27 shorts and feature-length films directed by and starring several luminaries of early African American cinema. The project came to fruition via a Kickstarter campaign last February. Bonus content has not been announced.

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Father of the Bride and Dark Passage on Blu

    Three new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. Father of the Bride (1950) and Dark Passage (1947) arrive on Blu-Ray for the first time. Dark Passage marks the third of four Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall films to see the transfer from DVD to Blu after The Big Sleep (1946) and Key Largo (1948). Also debuting on DVD is the three-disc FitzPa...

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  • KINO: Ox-Bow Incident and Yellow Sky Debut on Blu

    Kino has announced July 12th as the release date for two popular Western titles, both directed by William Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and Yellow Sky (1948) on Blu-ray. Both were previously released on DVD via 20th Century Fox. The Ox-Bow Incident debuted on DVD back in 2003 and will be seeing a brand-new 4K restoration. Yellow Sky is simply transferring to HD. There's no word on if the DVDs will be seeing...

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  • COLUMBIA CLASSICS: Girls' School Arrives on DVD

    Sony's Columbia Classics debuts the Anne Shirley and Ralph Bellamy comedy Girls' School (1938) on DVD for the first time. Girls' School will be available here at ClassicFlix on May 10th. This new DVD adds to the total of over 250 Columbia Classics titles exclusively available for rent at ClassicFlix.com.

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  • Rediscovered: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

    Roscoe Arbuckle is remembered less for his comic artistry than for the 1921 scandal that brought his acting career to an abrupt halt. Arbuckle's films were pulled from U.S. theaters in the crucial year when he, the other reigning male comedy stars, Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd, were transitioning from shorts to features, becoming a study in frustration and unrealized potential.Roscoe's friends got him directing jobs, and he also wrote gags and complete scenarios for other comics. In ...

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  • FOX ARCHIVES: On the Threshold of Space Debuts on DVD

    Fox's lone Cinema Archive announcement this week is 1956's On the Threshold of Space.  New to DVD and available at ClassicFlix on May 10th, the aviation drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Leith and in his final performance, John Hodiak, who died of a heart attack at age 41 just prior to the end of shooting. Dean Jagger, Warren Stevens, and the late Martin Milner also appear. Though the film was originally released in an a...

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  • CRITERION: Night and Fog and Carnival of Souls Arrive in July

    Criterion has announced July street dates for Night and Fog (1955) and Carnival of Souls (1962) on both DVD and Blu-Ray. Both are seeing an updated releases from their previous Criterion incarnations. Night and Fog originally dropped on DVD in 2003 from the studio while Carnival of Souls premiered on DVD in 2009. Each is receiving its first release on Blu-Ray. Both Blus and the Night and Fog DVD will be single-disc, while Carnival...

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  • Dark Cinema: The Best Bits of Blondell

    If you are of an age to remember an old Blue Bonnet margarine commercial from the 1960s, you'll know 'everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it.'Well, I apply that same line of thinking to one of my favorite pre-Code actresses: 'Every film's better with Joan Blondell in it.'Blondell appeared in more than 30 features from the pre-Code era including such classics as The Public Enemy (1932), but even in films that weren't classic, Blondell was a shining...

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