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It is time to get your love beads and purple velour pants for the 1968 classic rockumentary Monterey Pop by director D A Pennebaker of the legendary rock music festival concert (pre-dating Woodstock) that started […]
Director Irving Cummings’s exuberant 1940 Latin American Technicolor musical Down Argentine Way is as light as air and twice as bracing. Above all, it is fun. With the world at war and audiences looking for […]
Director Leo McCarey’s 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap is a bona fide classic Thirties comedy showcasing Charles Laughton’s definitive comic turn as the quintessential English butler/ valet Marmarduke Ruggles, lost in a poker game by […]
Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy go to Hollywood and get a contract from movie mogul Lew Grade’s ITC Films in director James Frawley and producer Jim Henson’s good natured, good humoured 1979 comedy The […]
Directors Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer’s grand 1923 silent classic movie Safety Last! stars Harold Lloyd and tells the effortlessly humorous tale of a country lad (Lloyd), involved in a romantic love affair with a […]
Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]
Emil Jannings and William Powell star in the 1928 Oscar-winning silent classic The Last Command as two men who used to be political as well as personal adversaries in revolutionary Russia, who are forced by international politics […]