EPISODE # 08: New York City “it girl” Holly Golightly (played by Audrey Hepburn) laughs and parties her way through Manhattan as she searches for a suitable (aka filthy rich) man to marry. Along the way, she meets a not-rich but gorgeous neighbor man …
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A Vintage Playlist For Your Classic Film Night
I (Lara) think this playlist works well when you’re having a casual get-together, like on a night where you have invited friends over to watch a classic film. This is a perfect warm-up playlist for something like Casablanca or Sunset Boulevard! You can …
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
EPISODE # 07: Travel back to the foggy London streets of 1894 for the exciting exploits of the world’s most famous private detective. This follow-up to The Hound of the Baskervilles is even better than its predecessor. Basil Rathbone gives a marvelous performance as …
The Lost World (1925)
EPISODE # 06: Before KING KONG, GODZILLA, or JURASSIC PARK, this ambitious 1925 silent film was the first feature to unleash ‘stop-motion’ animation on an astonished public, with a story adapted from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first feature-length …
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
EPISODE # 05: Alice Faye was a HUGE star in the 1940s, but is largely unknown today. Did James and Lara succumb to her big blue eyes and honey voice in 1943’s HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO? And is John Payne one of the hottest piano-playing …
Top Hat (1935)
EPISODE # 04: TOP HAT is not a movie you watch for the plot so much as to experience the star power and the chemistry of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In this rapid-fire review that was recorded at the historic Los Angeles Theatre …
City Lights (1931)
EPISODE # 03: Charlie Chaplin, playing his iconic Tramp character, falls in love with a blind flower girl…and hilarity ensues? What happens when one person writes, stars, edits, and directs a movie? And is the ending of this film possibly the GREATEST ending ever? …
A Star Is Born (1937)
EPISODE # 02: Is Frederic March just a dirty old man in the original A STAR IS BORN? Can a Hollywood marriage survive when one career is on its way up and the other is in a death spiral? And why is James bitter …
Casablanca (1943)
EPISODE # 01: Could someone watch CASABLANCA, a film consistently ranked as one of the greatest ever, and think…”meh?” Which part of Southern California stood in for Morocco? And can anyone decipher the plot? It doesn’t matter, since CASABLANCA is all about the romance! …