Hazel Scott

I was watching a film on TCM recently that had a great song by Hazel Scott. Here’s more about her.

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Tweet on Candyman 30 years later

'Candyman' 30 Years Later: Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen on Those Bees and the Horror Film's Racial Impact | Entertainment Tonight https://t.co/1VZcYAdYwq
— Tony Todd (@TonyTodd54) October 28, 2022

Anna May Wong coin

Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star will now be honored with a quarter design.

Anna May Wong, a Hollywood film star who had a trailblazing career, will be the first Asian American featured on U.S. currency. The U.S. Mint on Monday will begin producing quarters with her image. https://t.co/EG9aRoET5Z pic.twitter.com/WxwWVvVyy5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 18, 2022

A real Catbus

Catbus is a cat/bus hybrid in the animated film My Neighbor Totoro.

In Japan, they made that a reality. pic.twitter.com/sJY0HcZHtW
— Andrew Gill (@andrewgill) October 15, 2022

Films most often assigned in college classes

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Documentary about Syl Johnson on Tubi

Syl Johnson was an excellent blues and soul singer. I contributed to the Kickstarter for the documentary about him but haven’t watched it yet. It is now on tubi:

Syl Johnson: Any Way the Wind Blows

The North By Northwest crop duster scene was filmed on a soundstage

“North by Northwest” cropduster attack on Cary Grant was actually filmed by Hitchcock on soundstage in Hollywood, 1958: pic.twitter.com/rs2i5aatW4
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) September 20, 2022

The Mount Rushmore set from NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). pic.twitter.com/uvYMSdYTVc
— FilmFrame (@FilmFrameATRM) September 24, 2022

NORTH BY NORTHWEST was released 65 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great thriller movies and among Alfred Hitchcock’s best, the making of story will have you doubting your own identity…

1/36 pic.twitter.com/MEaihSwyFb
— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) July 1, 2024

Happy 100th birthday to Eva Marie Saint! Here she is in a wardrobe test photograph for Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). pic.twitter.com/Qsm3cGuBTi
— Bernard Herrmann (@HerrmannMovie) July 4, 2024

You’re old if you knew MAS*H was a movie before it was a TV show

It was a book before it was a movie – a novel written by a doctor who had served in the Korean War.

The 1970 film M*A*S*H was directed by Robert Altman. I saw it in a theater in downtown Philadelphia and thought tickets were expensive because they were $3.00.

I believe that Gary Burghoff (Radar) was the only actor who played the same role in the film and TV show.

The way to tell you’re old is if you know it was a movie before it was a TV show.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 18, 2022

Tweets on the death of Jean-Luc Godard

I am no expert on his films but certainly recommend Breathless, his debut.

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The real tribute is to watch Godard's films (and videos); here's a word on magnificent obsessions for streaming (and, in some crucial cases, alas, not): https://t.co/HeMHZsrU2B
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) September 16, 2022

Jean Luc Godard
Astonishing 15 feature run 1960-7 incl Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Masculin Féminin (from us on MF via @Cineaste_Mag: https://t.co/zhKVEBlfYX)
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–@bernsteinobits: https://t.co/8M0dqFj40u
–@SamuelAAdams: https://t.co/squ7DImEUL
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) September 13, 2022

More Godard – long list of must-reads via:
–@manohladargis: https://t.co/HmmmeTFnA2
–@JustinCChang: https://t.co/wQEyV71zxw
–@phillipstribune: https://t.co/w7KdrazHej
–@ctblauvelt/@ryanlattanzio: https://t.co/nOzhw2dip4
-And, of course, Mr. @tnyfrontrow: https://t.co/xPAtF9Vt79
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) September 13, 2022

Jean-Luc Godard, the iconoclast at the center of the French New Wave and one of film’s most influential makers, leaves behind a colossal legacy.

Whether you're a Godard admirer or want to see his films for the first time, here are some titles to explore. https://t.co/dFZDhdJgzk
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 13, 2022

One more round of Godard Tributes:
–@OwenGleiberman: https://t.co/Qdj6u6zoGO
–@szacharek: https://t.co/sFa1MTGwnj
–@jhoffman: https://t.co/l8Io18wTJ1
–@sirenasees: https://t.co/pfb7MIx235
-Stephanie Eckardt/@WMag: https://t.co/8sQbErC3xx
Via @guardianfilm: https://t.co/SN5DvTdGu0
— MidCenturyCinema (@MidCenturyCinem) September 14, 2022

I think that if you love movies and are interested in how they developed over the last century, you have to keep checking in with Jean-Luc Godard's films periodically throughout your viewing life. There's no way to grasp fully how movies got from there to here without him. >
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) September 13, 2022

"Like Warhol, like the Beatles, like the Stones, Godard can be said to have BEEN the 1960s." My thanks to @Glenn__Kenny for this wonderful Jean-Luc Godard appreciation, now on @decider. https://t.co/mUBDoKXMjj
— Mark Graham (@unclegrambo) September 13, 2022

Whether you're going to bed or just getting up, there's no better way to end / start your day than watching the Madison dance scene from Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part. 4 mins of pure cinematic joy. pic.twitter.com/YyXb2m7mwv
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) September 14, 2022

My favorite Ealing comedies

This list of the top 100 British films reminded me of the great comedies produced by the Ealing Studios in the later 1940s/1950s. I recommend all of them. I am posting overviews and then stuff on specific films. Alec Guinness stars in several of them.