About Classic MoviesGet the latest headlines from the About.com Classic Movies GuideSite.AFI has List-o-Mania Again- June 21, 2008 This time it's genres. The American Film Institute has chosen its top ten films in ten movie genres, and had its TV special, which I always seem to miss....http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000208.htm A Bridge in Brooklyn - I'm Sold- June 19, 2008 This has to be one of the great locations in the country for an outdoor film festival: the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge with the lights of Manhattan twinkling...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000205.htm Dancer Cyd Charisse Dies of a Heart Attack at 86- June 18, 2008 Sultry and sophisticated at a time when most Hollywood dancers were going for the cute factor, classically trained Cyd Charisse has died of a heart attack at age 86. The gorgeous...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000206.htm Hitchcock Manipulates Our Little Gray Cells- June 18, 2008 I've alway known that Alfred Hitchcock could mess with our brains like no other director, but now science has gone and proved it. Well, sort of. These wonderful geeks at...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000204.htm Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D- June 17, 2008 With the summer blockbusters already duking it out at the Cineplex, I'm holding out great hopes for, of all things, a remake: Journey to the Center of the Earth...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000203.htm Summer Movies in Bryant Park- June 12, 2008 Summer is here, and it's time for outdoor classic film festivals around the country. New York's venerable Bryant Park fest has a great lineup as usual. It kicks off with...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000202.htm Happy Birthday, Gene Wilder- June 11, 2008 It's Gene Wilder's 75th birthday today, and I'll use any excuse to blog about one of the most original, surprising and enduring comic actors of our time. His turn as the...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000201.htm The Universal Studios Fire - Trouble for Classic Film Festivals- June 11, 2008 No classic movies were lost forever in the huge fire that ripped through Universal Studios this month, and studio brass have promised that the master negatives are safe in cold...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000200.htm Skull Island and King Kong in Ashes- June 10, 2008 There was a odd little twist of fate in the fire at Universal Studios that destroyed, among other things, the animatronic King Kong attraction that drew tourists like tse-tse flies. Investigators...http://classicfilm.about.com/b/a/000199.htm |