by Jordan Young | Jul 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which boasted “more stars than there are in heaven” in the so-called golden age of Hollywood, went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the private lives of its stars from the public in the 1920s and ‘30s. They would “fix” speeding tickets and...
by Jordan Young | Jun 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Kino Lorber has gone into overdrive in recent months, pumping out more vintage films on Blu-ray than I can cast an eyeball on. Happily they haven’t ignored lovers of silent film, with a noteworthy Lois Weber twofer among their recent releases. Weber, perhaps the...
by Jordan Young | May 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Films from the Baltics get short shrift among foreign language films released in the U.S., so it’s especially satisfying to trumpet the arrival of an extraordinary drama about the Soviet Holocaust (premiering on Film Movement Plus June 11), timed to commemorate the...
by Jordan Young | Apr 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
The last time I saw “The Producers”(1968), the original version of Mel Brooks’ first and funniest feature film, the writer-director himself prefaced it with a hilarious introduction at the first TCM Classic Film Festival but the film itself did not look good. Happily,...
by Jordan Young | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
From vaudeville and radio to movies, television, and far flung outposts across the globe, Bob Hope had one of the longest and most successful careers in show biz. His reputation has faded in the generation since his death at the age of 100 in 2003—even his namesake...
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