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  • Zero at the Bone: Chilling Moments in Classic Films

    My article title comes from Emily Dickinson; it is how she described the feeling of coming upon a snake as it slid past her in the grass. It is a feeling film makers have produced in willing audiences since the silent days. With its sensory presentation, film is the perfect medium for the thriller. While we often date the modern thriller from the premiere of Psycho in 1960, movies had been scaring the socks off people for half a century. In 1910, in fact, there was a one-reel Fra...

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  • OLIVE: Four Film Noirs Come to Individual Blu

    Olive Films has announced a December 23rd release date for Rope of Sand, Union Station, Appointment with Danger, and Dark City on Blu-Ray. All four were previously compiled into Olive's Film Noir Collection, Vol. 1 set in 2012 but are now being released as singles. It is assumed these will be carry-overs straight from the box set with no bonus content attached.

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  • Easy Living at the Lone Pine Film Festival

    The 25th Lone Pine Film Festival took place in Lone Pine, California, in early October, providing film fans with a very special time in an area where hundreds of classic-era movies were filmed. Although I've been to the charming little Sierra town of Lone Pine on many occasions, this was my first visit to the festival, and I can't underline enough what a good time I had. Anyone who loves classic films, especially Westerns, will want to put the Lone Pine Film Festival on their 'mus...

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  • FOX CINEMA ARCHIVES: Michael Shayne Comes Out of the Vault in November

    Fox has announced the resurrection of Michael Shayne, private detective, as part of their latest releases in their Cinema Archives line. The studio is releasing Just Off Broadway (1942), the sixth of seven movies featuring Lloyd Nolan's detective, Michael Shayne, which ran from 1940 to 1942. After years of silence on the series, it was feared Fox had abandoned Shayne after kickstarting the character's resurgence with the release of Dressed to Kill

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  • Dark Cinema: Color Noir

    When we think of film noir, dark, foggy streets and shadowy black and white cinematography often come to mind. That look is as closely tied to the genre as its fatalistic themes. Noir is about more than gloomy grey alleyways though. Sometimes it pops with juicy, lurid color. It seems so wrong to film the darkest moments of the human soul in rainbow hues, until you realize the bleakest tale is often of the evil that unfolds in broad daylight. What could be more jarring, and effecti...

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  • UNIVERSAL VAULT: Over a Dozen Titles New to DVD

    Universal's MOD program kicks back into high gear with the announcement of over fifteen titles newly available on DVD as part of their Vault Series. They are: Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949) - Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Lloyd Bridges Frenchman's Creek (1944) - Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Cecil Kellaway Frontier Gal (1945) - Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Came...

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  • TCM VAULT: Only Angels Have Wings Debuting on Blu in November

    TCM and Sony have announced a November 25th release date for the Blu-Ray debut of the Cary Grant / Jean Arthur classic, Only Angels Have Wings. The 1939 drama was put out on DVD via Sony in 1999 and was included on the Cary Grant box set in 2006. An introduction by TCM host Robert Osborne and various on-disc memorabilia are included as bonus content on both the Blu and DVD. Since this is a TCM Shop exclusive ClassicF...

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  • CRITERION: The Palm Beach Story Gets Blu-Ray Premiere

    Criterion has announced a January 20th street date for the 1942 romantic comedy, The Palm Beach Story, on a newly restored DVD and Blu-Ray. Originally released on DVD in 2005 via Universal, it was also included as part of the Preston Sturges Filmmaker Collection in 2006. A few bonus features are planned to accompany each disc (below). NOTE: Since last September, Criterion had only released DVD / Blu-Ray combo packs; however, since September's rel...

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  • Cartoon Roots This December

    A December 2nd release date has been announced for Cartoon Roots.  The Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack will feature source material from animation collector Tom Stathes and is reportedly a collaborative effort with Thunderbean Animation. Exclusive to Amazon, we are making this set available for rent to members. This collection of fifteen animated shorts, from a variety of animators including Max Fleischer and the TerryToons studi...

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  • Silent Cinema: The Class of 1914

    2014 marks the centenary of Charlie Chaplin's motion picture debut. This is certainly an important milestone and Chaplin deserves all the praise he gets, but let's not forget that two other important movie people also debuted in 1914. Cecil B. DeMille is remembered today for his religious epics and wooden dialogue, but three-quarters of his output was actually silent films. If you think you do not like DeMille, his silent films may come as a revelation. Sassy marital comedies, dar...

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