Here are a few favorite blog posts from previous Januarys.
January 2011
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Click here for James Bond in 1967: Bits of Trivia.
January 2012
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This movie is a well that never runs dry. It bears repeat viewings. So Java's Journey talked about the symbolism of the garden muse in this film. How it represents new beginnings for the protagonist.
Click here to read The Heiress (1949): The Garden Muse.
January 2013
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Read Classic Movie Remakes in Development.
January 2014
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Click here for Lucy Hunts Uranium vs. Mad World
January 2015
Last January was pretty tough for me, so I joined a Joan Crawford Facebook group. (Naturally.) I had rarely ever watched Crawford films; I couldn't shake from my mind her alleged scandalous child-rearing skills.
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So I watched a smattering of Crawford and was blown away! What a talent! In January 2015, I reviewed Humoresque and was acquainted with some of the earlier work of Issac Stern, the violinist who made the fiddling in The Fiddler on the Roof so distinctive. In the Crawford film, it's Stern's work you hear when John Garfield fingers the violin.
Even in the strange circus world of Berserk!, Crawford stands out as the best part of the film - the concerned ring master who's workers are being mysteriously murdered.
Read Humoresque
Read a review of Berserk.
in Humoresque, I think the hand close-ups are Stern and another violinist with Garfield's head. Very well done. I saw the movie and had to look up if Garfield was that good. He wasn't.
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