Silent & Classic Films and Celebrities Vox 2008-04-01T15:53:25Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d414355823685e/ The Old Times always come back "Bop Gun" Episode on Homicide tag:vox.com,2008-04-01:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300f48cea538f0003 2008-04-01T15:53:25Z 2008-04-01T15:53:25Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Jake Gyllenhaal in Homicide: Life on the Street

Not a film but a wildly (especially in Baltimore, where it was shot) popular television show, Homicide: Life on the Streets featured Robin Williams in an episode directed by my beloved Stephen Gyllenhaal, who cast his young son in a guest role. Th...

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]]> Truly Madly Deeply tag:vox.com,2008-03-25:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300f48ce7ff270002 2008-03-18T20:01:31Z 2008-03-25T20:12:32Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Im-trulymadlydeeply

About the one thing that makes me bless the memory of director-writer Anthony Minghella, who died today at the age of 54, is this film. Like other low-key but quirky love stories (Untamed Heart springs to mind), TMD is a secret favorite of women,...

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]]> Madame of the Silent Era? tag:vox.com,2008-03-02:asset-6a00f48cded879000200f48cfef6a40001 2008-03-02T02:37:29Z 2008-03-12T17:18:28Z Flora F. Amour http://florafamour.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Alla Nazimova (b.1879-d.1945)

The beginning of films, a "new freedom" for women, Hollywood was begining to become "on the rage", and everyone wanted a "piece" of that fame. Celebraties started to become popular, and magazines like PicturePlay, PhotoPlay among others, took no...

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]]> Boum! tag:vox.com,2008-03-10:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300e398e466260004 2008-03-10T04:09:59Z 2008-03-12T09:53:47Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Boum

Here's a Charles Trenet standard that's been heard in at least three films. Name one.

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]]> Garbo Dies! Garbo Lives! tag:vox.com,2008-03-07:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300e398e375fc0005 2008-03-07T02:50:16Z 2008-03-13T19:16:20Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The cigarette scene

Name the only film in the list below in which Garbo dies: 1. The Temptress 2. Flesh and the Devil 3. The Mysterious Lady

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]]> Leap Year Day tag:vox.com,2008-03-04:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300f48ce0d7d60002 2008-03-01T07:55:21Z 2008-03-04T01:01:30Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Im-stephenwithms

Exercising the prerogative given to me by Leap Year Day, I have proposed marriage to Stephen Gyllenhaal.

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]]> Another Mamoulian Classic tag:vox.com,2008-02-28:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300f48cdf60c50003 2008-02-28T01:26:02Z 2008-03-07T08:57:05Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Im-lovemetonight

And then there's Love Me Tonight (1932), a pre-Code classic from Mamoulian and one of the best musicals ever. Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Ruggles, even Gabby Hayes(!) when he was still just plain ol'...

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]]> The Swedish Connection tag:vox.com,2008-02-25:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300e398e0417e0005 2008-02-25T20:55:59Z 2008-02-25T20:55:59Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Im-setofqueenchristina

Publicity shot from the set of Queen Christina (1933). From left to right: Greta Garbo as the cross-dressing queen of Sweden, John Gilbert as her Spanish lover, and Rouben (stress on the second syllable) Mamoulian, director. Personal connections...

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]]> Oscar Night tag:vox.com,2008-02-25:asset-6a00f48cde5919000300f48cde4e890002 2008-02-25T00:18:46Z 2008-02-28T20:39:56Z Cantara Christopher http://cantara.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

I'm In Love Again

Here's an offering from 1987's winner for Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Name the movie, the singer, and the singer's best-known Manhattan venue.

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]]> Postcards from the Isle of Irrelevancy Pt 2: Scarjo is No G. Kel (Gene Kelly, ya heard?!) tag:vox.com,2008-02-08:asset-6a00d414291430685e00f30f59e0960001 2008-02-08T18:22:56Z 2008-02-09T08:17:18Z Valley Girl Intelligentsia http://valleygirlintelligentsia.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

On the count of three, EMOTE!! Gwenyth and Robert Downing Jr. I liked you both more in 90's While you're still a fuckable chubby dude YOU ARE NO CARY GRANT SIR! are these the kids from High School Musical? Dial F: For Aeon Flux

So a couple of blogs and dozens of twitty commenters all over the internets are ejaculating all types of swoony praise over a Vanity Fair spread of current day mediocre actors posing as if they were in Alfred Hitchcock stills. If "Captivity" and ...

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