Spellbound with Beth Ann * Page 19 of 21 *

Say It With Firecrackers

Somehow it’s a little too dry and a little too chilly for fireworks in the Bay Area, but I’m going to wish you a happy Fourth of July and say it with fireworks anyway….

bethanngallagher
Available on DVD, Dance, Fred Astaire, Holiday Movies, Tap
Jul, 03, 2011
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Name this Film? An Unidentified Silent Film Featuring Dorsey

The Nitrate Film Interest Group has posted new stills from another unidentified film in its vaults. Can you help them solve the mystery? Here are your first clues. The film is a silent, and…

bethanngallagher
Archives, Film Preservation, Identify This Film, Silent Film
Jun, 18, 2011
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For the Love of Film (Noir) Blogathon: The Bookseller Babe in The Big Sleep (1946)

Perhaps because I’ve worked as a bookseller, I’ve always felt a special affinity for Dorothy Malone’s bookstore proprietress in The Big Sleep. In the film private detective Philip Marlowe investigates an increasingly confusing case that…

bethanngallagher
Available on DVD, Blogathons, Booksellers on Film, Dorothy Malone, Film Noir, Film Noir on DVD, Film Preservation
Feb, 19, 2011
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For the Love of Film (Noir): The Mechanical Man of CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953)

John H. Auer’s CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS is an odd hodgepodge of a film. It crosses noir with docudrama with the guardian angel film. Its villains, Hayes Stewart, Lydia Biddel, and Penrod Biddel, are far more compelling…

bethanngallagher
Blogathons, Film Noir, Film Preservation, Out-of-Print-in-the-US, Unreleased to DVD
Feb, 17, 2011
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For the Love of Film (Noir): Christmas Holiday (1944)

Any holiday can bring out the worst in people, but Christmas Holiday really isn’t about the supposedly joyous season. It’s a noir, so how can it be? A soldier’s Christmas leave provides the frame…

bethanngallagher
Blogathons, Film Noir, Out-of-Print-in-the-US
Feb, 14, 2011
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SF Silent Film Festival 6th Annual Winter Event

This weekend a friend and I are off to the picture show! We’re attending the San Francisco Silent Film Festival’s 6th Annual Winter Event. I’ve been to all of their summer festivals save one…

bethanngallagher
Film Festivals, Silent Film
Feb, 09, 2011
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The Actors: Rare Films Of Clara Bow Volume 3

We finished watching The Actors: Rare Films Of Clara Bow Volume 3 last night. Kid Boots was a cute Eddie Cantor vehicle. Clara Bow was Cantor’s character’s love interest. They made for a pairing….

bethanngallagher
Available on DVD, Clara Bow
Feb, 08, 2011
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For the Love of Film (Noir) Bloggers

It’s almost time for you to put on your reading glasses! In one week, the For the Love of Film (Noir) blogathon starts. From throughout the film blogosphere, writers are banding together for a…

bethanngallagher
Blogathons, Film Noir
Feb, 07, 2011
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Added to the Must Watch List: Pina (2011)

I haven’t seen Black Swan yet, but I want to. From the trailer, it looks like a blender mix of Persona, The Red Shoes, Single White Female, and Gypsy. Natalie Portman suffered for the…

bethanngallagher
Must Watch List, Trailers
Feb, 06, 2011
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For the Love of Film (Noir) Blogathon

This month I’m participating in the For the Love of Film (Noir) Blogathon. I caught on to last year’s too late to participate, but eighty-one other film bloggers raised $30,000 in donations and matching…