August has come and gone–a busy month, all things considered, but filled with interesting doings here at True Classics: TCM’s annual Summer Under the Stars event is over, as is the SUTS blogathon co-hosted by our friends Michael at ScribeHard on Film and Jill from Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence. Thirty-one days of stars,…
In the wake of the glorious success of last month’s nationwide theater screenings of Singin’ in the Rain (1952), NCM Fathom, Turner Classic Movies, and Warner Bros. have teamed up once again to bring the movie back to theaters for an encore–and on the eve of star Gene Kelly’s 100th birthday, no less! From the press…
Today, it just feels appropriate to borrow a quote from one of the funniest screenwriters of all time, the great Preston Sturges. His 1941 opus Sullivan’s Travels, from which the title of this post derives, remains one of the best comedies of all time–incisive, witty, keenly observational, and filled with moments of rolling-on-the-floor hilarity. We…
Blogathons, blogathons, blogathons! It seems like every classic movie blog on the web is hosting one in the next couple of months. And that is not a complaint–it’s fantastic to see the interest in classic films that such blogathons tend to generate and promote among movie fans. We told you about several upcoming events in our…
As many classic movie fans are likely aware, our television Lord and Master, Turner Classic Movies (in conjunction with Fathom and Warner Bros.) is following up this past spring’s successful nationwide theater screenings of Casablanca (1942) with a one-night-only showing of the incomparable 1952 musical Singin’ in the Rain, which will be released in a special sixtieth-anniversary edition Blu-ray on July…
Another month has come and gone–a good month, all things considered (despite the drama that went down in the middle of June concerning a self-important, unnamed movie blog organization … bygones). And we have even more good stuff on tap for July! First, if you visit the site regularly, you may have noticed a change…
[Bonus points for naming the song whose lyrics we borrowed for this post’s title. :)] Well, another month has come and gone, and what a month it was! For instance: Our “Movie Memories” series, which wrapped up yesterday, was so much fun to host! Over the course of the past thirty-one days, we posted memories…
Have you checked out The Cinementals yet? Founded earlier this year by three of our favorite classic film bloggers/prolific Tweeters–Will McKinley, Carley Johnson, and Jill Blake–The Cinementals has quickly become a must-read site for classic movie fanatics. From their insanely in-depth, on-the-ground coverage of April’s TCM Classic Film Festival, to their numerous daily posts featuring…
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