In June, The Michigan Theater (in Ann Arbor, MI) kicked off its 2010 Summer Classic Film Series with John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and it ends next week with Fritz Lang’s newly restored Metropolis, which will feature a live organ accompaniment of the 1927 original score. …
Over the weekend, The Film Dr. tagged me in a blog meme begun by Stephen Russell-Gebbett who blogs over at (the interestingly titled) Checking on My Sausages and MovieMan0283 who blogs at The Dancing Image. According to the guys, the person tagged is to submit a gallery of images that …
About a week ago, I learned that on Friday, July 30, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) would air Black Hand (Richard Thorpe, 1950), a little-known film noir that stars my favorite song-and-dance man, Gene Kelly. Even though Kelly and his screen persona are completely un-noirish, I set the DVR anticipating the …
Last weekend I returned to the movie theatre for the first time since the summer blockbuster season began. The film that beckoned me back as well as stirred me from my Six Feet Under stupor — I’m foolishly watching the entire depressing series in 2 months — was Solitary Man …
This morning, I came across two letters to the editor from the Pittsburgh: Post-Gazette, both of which concern one of my favorite stars/dancers/entertainers, Gene Kelly.
The first letter comes from an 81-year old man who wonders why the town of Pittsburgh, where Kelly was born and ran a dance studio with …
The aim of the Hollywood star autobiographer is twofold and tension-filled: she must break and preserve her star image. In other words, she should reveal, Ruth Amossy maintains, both “her intimate self” (i.e., juicy personal details) and “the dream factory manufactured object” (i.e., the stereotyped image that lures fans) (676). …
