by Jack Schamel I was nine years old when I saw my first movie. It was 1939, and it was a Buck Rogers serial. I remember seeing the Lone Ranger serials, too, and a movie with The Three Musketeers that came out around that time. That was pretty popular. And I saw my first Western not…
Today’s submission comes courtesy of the ever-lovely Carley, headmistress of the venerable Kitty Packard Pictorial! In her post, Carley has taken the concept of “movie memories” to new heights, painting a touching portrait of the ways in which she and her mother communicate through classic films–in particular the seminal classic Gone With the Wind. In…
We’re kicking off a month of movie memories today with a post by our good friend Michael Nazarewycz, the scintillating scribe behind the appropriately-named ScribeHard on Film. With loving detail and a cheeky humor that is truly entertaining, Michael looks back at three thrilling “event movies” that defined certain points of time in his life,…
Weeeeeeeee’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! (Yes, for real.) There’s quite a bit of happenings going on ’round these parts and all over the classic movie blogging sphere, so let’s get right down to it. Movie Memories 2: Electric Boogaloo (Or … something like that.) Throughout the month of June, we will again delve into the well of memory,…
Is this month finally going to be the month in which True Classics returns to its regularly scheduled programming? Um … here’s hoping. Life seems to be moving along at a brisk pace for all of us here at the site, whether we’re respectively wrapping up a semester of graduate work, zipping along at our…
Hard to believe it’s April already. Life doesn’t appear to be slowing down for any of the True Classics crew anytime soon, but we will do our best to continue updating the site on a semi-regular basis until things calm down. In the meantime, here’s a few things to look forward to this month and…
February in the world of classic movie blogging looks to be a jam-packed month, what with the heaping handful of blogathons being hosted by some of our favorite film writers on the web (you can find out more about those upcoming events here). Needless to say, there’s gonna be a whole lotta writin’ goin’ on–and…
October was a pretty exciting month here at True Classics, what with our first TCM Party hosting gig, some fun ticket giveaways, and a serious traffic spike thanks to a certain animated Google Doodle. Among the happenings from the past month: The Wonders in the Dark Comedy Countdown rolls on, and my latest contribution on Buster…
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