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  • KINO BLU: Nine Titles Arrive in November

    Nine titles, all premiering on Blu, are scheduled for release in November from Kino. November 1st: The Beautiful Blonde of Bashful Bend (1949) - Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan I Wake Up Screaming (1941) - Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar November 8th: Bad Girl (1931) - James Dunn, Sally ...

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  • Classics 101: A Definition of Film Terms

    Classic movie fans and ClassicFlix subscribers know that the great movies of yesteryear can be enjoyed as entertainment for their stars, stories, production values, direction, cinematography and all the other artistic areas that make films worth the price of a ticket. For those looking to delve deeper into the Hollywood vaults, most of the film books on the motion pictures of the era deal with the overall output of the studios and independents, 1920s-1960s, or specific genre, such as noir, ho...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Re-Release of Val Lewton and Horror Legends in October

    Four releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection, all previously put out on DVD. Three of the titles are productions from legendary master of horror Val Lewton and originally debuted in a Lewton collection in 2005. They are: Isle of the Dead / Bedlam (1945) - Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship (1943) - Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell The...

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  • OLIVE: J'accuse, Pimpernel Smith Plus Three More in November

    Olive Films has announced a November 15th release date for the DVD and Blu-Ray debut of the 1938 French drama J'accuse. Also arriving on the same day is 1941 Leslie Howard spy drama Pimpernel Smith, as well as Houdini, Dorothy Lamour as Lulu Belle and the Powell / Pressburger film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing , all of which are receiving their first Blu upgrades. Bonus features to the DVD and Blu-Ray aren'...

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  • Silent Cinema: They Had Color Back Then

    Too many people, black and white is synonymous with 'old' movies. Therefore, it comes as a surprise when they discover just how colorful the world of silent film was. Color was present in motion pictures from the very beginning. Thomas Edison's motion pictures were advertised as having hand-colored footage of dancers, their twirling dresses ideal for disguising imperfections in the applied dyes.Tinting and ToningBy far the most common method for adding...

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  • WARNER ARCHIVE: Love Me or Leave Me on Blu, Monogram Cowboys & More in Latest Wave

    Three new releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection including the arrival of Doris Day's Love Me or Leave Me (1955) on Blu-ray. Also included this week are the ninth volume in the Monogram Cowboy Collection, focusing on the films of Johnny Mack Brown, and Jackie Cooper's When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932). All of these will be available here at ClassicFlix on September 27th and ...

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  • The Old Corral: The Westerns of Robert Mitchum

    From a tenth-billed part as a heavy in Border Patrol, a 60-minute Hopalong Cassidy oater of 1943 to eighth in the cast list as the bad guy in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man fifty-two years later, with 29 Western appearances in between, Robert Mitchum took on the genre, and won.He was Bob Mitchum, of course, so a lot of the time he went through the motions, sleep-walking through the Western parts assigned to him. He used to say they painted eyeballs onto his closed lids....

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  • ARTWORK ADDED: The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection

    --ARTWORK ADDED TO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT-- ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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  • Underrated Baseball Films

    As a lover of both baseball and old movies, I enjoy discussions of the best films about the national pastime. Unfortunately, too often arguments begin, say, 40 years ago and concentrate on modern times while excluding fine works from Hollywood's past. The Pride of the Yankees is deservedly beloved; one of the iconic movies of the golden age of studio filmmaking, but it often stands alone as the token 'classic' choice in the conversation.Let's examine some underrated baseb...

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  • CRITERION: One-Eyed Jacks Arrives in November

    Criterion announced Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray in November. One-Eyed Jacks receives its introduction into the Criterion Collection. It originally dropped on DVD in 1999 from Echo Entertainment and arrived on Blu from E1 in 2011. Bonus features are below. One-Eyed Jacks arrives on November 22nd.

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