This weekend’s Saturday Morning Cartoon is one of my favourite Disney animated films: The Great Mouse Detective (1986). A rodent version of Sherlock Holmes, Basil of Baker Street is after the evil Professor Ratigan, the world’s worst criminal who manages to stay one step ahead. Basil plays homage to Basil Rathbone, the enigmatic portrayer of Holmes:…
Throughout her long and varied career, Bette Davis excelled at playing complicated women. From the slatternly waitress in Of Human Bondage (1934) to the spoiled Southern belle in 1938’s Jezebel to the grand dame of the theater, Margo Channing, in 1950’s All About Eve, Davis’ filmography is stacked with a series of unparalleled performances. Part of the…
Lo at the awesomeness of this idea! The folks at Citizenrobot and Rupert Pupkin Speaks came up with the idea of creating a personal cinematic alphabet, with each letter representing a favorite film beginning with that letter. And since we are, for all intents and purposes, the “ABCs of Classic Film,” this is a bandwagon…
The news that classic film actor Farley Granger recently passed away may have come as a surprise to those who weren’t aware that he was actually still with us. Seemingly as unassuming in real life as he was in many of his silver-screen roles, Granger’s Hollywood career was marked by his exceedingly good looks and…
True Classics been tapped for a “Stylish Blogger Award” by no less than three of our absolutely favorite film bloggers: the lovely Carley over at The Kitty Packard Pictorial; Kendra, the brilliant mind behind Viv and Larry; and the insightful Marya over at Cinema Fanatic. Thank you very much, ladies! And if you’re not reading…
This August marks legendary comedienne Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday. We here at True Classics are huge Lucy-philes, and it has occured to us that it might be nice to host a blogathon focusing on Lucy’s memorable (and perhaps not-so-memorable) screen roles. Right now, we’re just curious to see how many people might be interested in participating…
The Black Cauldron is an odd installment in the Disney canon. The animation took an abrupt turn, possibly not for the best, but it really does reflect the common animation for the time–1985. I wish I could say what they were doing that made it different–media, camera, lighting, or what–but I’m not knowledgeable enough about…
As I mentioned yesterday, today’s Therapy Thursday post will showcase Suddenly, Last Summer, with Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. Oddly, I haven’t been able to come up with a good topic for this series in weeks upon weeks … I just had nothing. Then, yesterday, doing a brief tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, this movie came to…
