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2023 Classic Film Reading Challenge To-Read List Banner for the 2023 Classic Film Reading Challenge
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2023 Classic Film Reading Challenge To-Read List

Shawn Hall May 20, 2023 0

Another year, another round of classic film-related summer reading. Luckily my new apartment has a lovely...

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Barbara Stanwyck in Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre David Jannsen and Barbara Stanwyck in an episdoe of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater
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Barbara Stanwyck in Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre

Shawn Hall May 19, 2023 6

For five seasons in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dick Powell hosted and produced his...

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The Third Genius Speaks: Ranking Harold Lloyd’s Sound Films Harold Lloyd dangling from a building in Feet First.
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The Third Genius Speaks: Ranking Harold Lloyd’s Sound Films

Shawn Hall April 20, 2023 0

Of the three silent clowns, Lloyd’s sound career is the least discussed. Keaton’s MGM talkies stand...

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The Sign of the Cross (1932): DeMille’s Pre-Code Epic TenCommandments-Titlecard
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The Sign of the Cross (1932): DeMille’s Pre-Code Epic

Shawn Hall April 9, 2023 0

With only a small handful of Easter related films, DeMille is easily the director most associated...

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2023 Best Picture Nominees & Classic Film Double Features A trench warfare scene in 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front
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2023 Best Picture Nominees & Classic Film Double Features

Shawn Hall March 10, 2023 0

This weekend’s 95th Academy Awards celebrates the best of 2022 films from big-budget blockbusters to small...

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Ten Great African American Classic Films A Raisin in the Sun
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Ten Great African American Classic Films

Shawn Hall February 17, 2023 2

Anyone with experience watching classic films has undoubtedly been taken out of an otherwise engaging, entertaining...

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Ernest Torrence: Silent Hollywood’s Greatest Character Actor Ernest Torrence hams it up as Peter in 1927's The King of Kings.
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Ernest Torrence: Silent Hollywood’s Greatest Character Actor

Shawn Hall January 8, 2023 6

In his nearly fifty film roles, Ernest Torrence perfectly exemplifies the unique skill set required to...

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Sparrows (1926)—The Girl with the Golden Curls’ Curtain Call Mary Pickford leads her children over a swamp-infested crocidilles in Sparrows.
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Sparrows (1926)—The Girl with the Golden Curls’ Curtain Call

Shawn Hall November 20, 2022 3

Mary Pickford skyrocketed to international stardom in the 1910s playing plucky children in films such as...

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Monsieur Verdoux: A Comedy of Murders (1947) Monsieur Verdoux at his trial.
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Monsieur Verdoux: A Comedy of Murders (1947)

Shawn Hall November 10, 2022 4

Charlie Chaplin’s greatest talent was his ability to mix heartfelt emotion into his comedies. From his...

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The Miracle Man (1932): Remaking a Silent Classic TheMiracleMan1919_Healing
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The Miracle Man (1932): Remaking a Silent Classic

Shawn Hall October 20, 2022 3

The canon of the greatest films constantly changes as each generation reevaluates yesteryear’s classics and rediscovers...

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