“The lack of film culture is one of the things that really upsets me. There’s this complete lack of interest in anything that was made longer than ten years ago…it’s like ignoring buried treasure,…
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Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Reviewed by Dr. Corinna Tomrley
“A possible reading of the film is that being too successful as a woman will destroy you and bring society down in a quagmire of brutality and perversion.”
Quote of the Day: Constance Bennett on Marilyn Monroe
“There’s a broad with her future behind her!”…
Stargayzing Screening Room: What We’ve Been Watching Lately, Volume 2
1. Gravity (2013) Some folks found Alfonso Cuarón’s blockbuster a bit slow going or sentimental at times, but liked it in an old-fashioned-big-Hollywood-blockbuster sort of way. You couldn’t ask for two more likable actors…
William Wyler’s 10 Greatest Films of All Time
The original 1977 Book of Lists featured an exclusive list of the legendary William Wyler’s 10 Greatest Films of all time. Here is his list, along with the original introduction. “Director William Wyler’s film…
Nothing’s Impossible: Yentl Opened 30 Years Ago Today
In the autumn of 1983, I was beginning my sophomore year at N.Y.U. film school, but anything I may learned in a classroom that semester felt insignificant compared to the excitement surrounding the November…
Gay Icon Quentin Crisp on Joan Crawford
From How to Go to the Movies, by Quentin Crisp As a writer and towering, eccentric figure of 20th-century queer New York, Quentin Crisp deserves to be remembered and respected both for his literary…
Movie Quote of the Day: Charlie Chaplin
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”…
Movie Quote of the Day: Christopher Plummer on “Old Hollywood”
Aggregator The Week recently reprinted a piece about actor Christopher Plummer by Marlow Stern from TheDailyBeast.com that I thought was both funny and illuminating: Christopher Plummer misses the Hollywood of old, said Marlow Stern…
Movie Quote of the Day: May Robson in A Star is Born (1937)
“Esther, everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at, don’t you know that? But there’s a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and…
Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, & Shirley Eder: Hollywood’s Original Two-Faced Women
By Stargayzing guest blogger Corinna Tomrley* Shirley Eder may be known to those who are serious about their classic Hollywood trivia, but to many her name will not ring a bell. Although not as renowned…
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