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Silver Screenings Blog
2d ago
Has a Hollywood war movie left its thumbprint on you? For us, one such film was Apocalypse Now (1979), a haunting dreamscape in an exotic war zone. It confronted us with the reminder the world isn’t always the place we wish it to be. We were mulling this over after seeing a new five-part documentary, released by Cantilever Films, that ..read more
Silver Screenings Blog
1w ago
Sometimes the world feels different when an influential person dies, and you grieve even though you never met said person. That was the case for millions on November 22, 1963. Two influential men died that day, within an hour of each other, and both, curiously, were nicknamed “Jack”. You’ve already guessed the first, the 35th president of the United States ..read more
Silver Screenings Blog
2w ago
Warning: Contains Spoilers Sometimes, in a movie, you can spot the Set-Up in the first few scenes. But a good filmmaker knows this, and uses it to build tension. That’s what we thought when we watched the family drama, Old Yeller (1957). This film, from Walt Disney Productions, is an endearing tale of a family struggling to scratch a livelihood ..read more
Silver Screenings Blog
1M ago
When we were in elementary school, there was a boy who was always in trouble. Today, we would assume the poor kid had ADHD, but he wasn’t diagnosed with such Back in the Day. We could only see a boy who Never complied with the Rules. We felt the boy couldn’t help it, but we children often wondered why he ..read more
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1M ago
We just watched a Western parody that’s a lot of fun in spite of itself. My Little Chickadee (1940) stars Mae West and W.C. Fields as two grifters who meet on a train and suddenly decide to marry. West is on the train because she was caught in a romantic embrace with a notorious stagecoach robber, and when she refused ..read more
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1M ago
A few weeks ago, we visited an antique shop in the middle of Nowhere and, among low-tech housewares and sewing machines, we found a biography of classic Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille: Yes, Mr. DeMille by Phil Koury. DeMille was a film director for an astonishing 46 years. He directed over 80 movies, including The Squaw Man (1914), The Ten ..read more
Silver Screenings Blog
2M ago
Depression-era Warner Bros. gangster movies are as much about reformation as they are about crime. You know the drill: A ruthless gangster/criminal is hammered with bad luck, and these circumstances force him to become a Better Person. We (yours truly) have a soft spot for these stories. They never get old, even if the studio recycled many of them, but ..read more
Silver Screenings Blog
2M ago
We could not believe how unsettled we became when we saw the original version of the Victorian thriller, Gaslight (1940), from British National Films. Now, we’ve seen the more luxurious MGM version of Gaslight (1944), starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, which is a superb film. Yet, it didn’t unsettle us like the British version did, and we’re going to ..read more
Silver Screenings Blog
3M ago
We recently saw Anastasia (1956), an engaging story loosely based on actual events. Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Anderson, a troubled woman who claims to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. (As you know, Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia, the one who was captured and imprisoned along with his wife and children ..read more
Silver Screenings Blog
4M ago
Perhaps you’ve heard of Nick and Nora Charles, the husband-and-wife sleuthing team of The Thin Man movies. On the face of it, they’re an unlikely pair. Nick (William Powell) is a retired gumshoe, a sleek, witty man with an unparalleled track record of putting criminals in the Clink. He’s married to Nora (Myrna Loy), a sleek, witty woman with an ..read more