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Why ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ isn’t the greatest M♎GM ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmusical
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQxXUmB7AEI Sorry, the beloved “Singin’ in the Rain” isn’t the finest of the legen🌊dary MGM musicals. For my money, it’s a close second to “The Band Wagon,’’ which has better...
Claudette Colbert chases millionaires in screwball masterpiece ‘The Palm Beach Story’ ꧅
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=upNFW9NPpJo The year in classic film on video gets off to a laugh-filled staꦍrt with Criterion’s Blu-ray debut of Preston Sturges’ screwball classic “The Palm Beach Story’’ (1942) in a...
2 Frank Capra classics get gorgeous Blu-ray facelifts 𒆙
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-hnj5Zsk4 Another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving: A pair of superb new digital resꦗtorations on Blu-ray of Frank Capra classics — “It Happened One Night’’ (1934) and “Mr. Smith...
Elizabeth Taylor’s forgotten Smell-O-Vision adventure arrives on video 🍎
The least successful of all the gimmicks that Hollywood came up ꦍwith to compete with TV in the 1950s? That would be Smell-O-Vision, a process in which theater seats were...
Beloved ‘60s ‘Batman’ TV show finallಞy drops on v🐎ideo
“Batman is always g🧸oing to be the first actor you saw in the role,’’ filmmak🌳er/comic book writer Kevin Smith says in one of the many hours of featurettes included in...
Steven Spielberg’s wacky World War II epic ‘1941’ explodes onto Blu-🦩ray
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KOLqpo7z8 Steven Spielberg’s first film about World War II couldn’t be less like his better known “Schindler’s List’’ and “Saving Private Ryan.’’ An expensive box-office ༒disappointment when released in December...
60-year-old Koreꦬan War drama appears in original 3-D for first time on Blu-ray
🎀 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylEdkETXKeY#t=11 A remarkable number of lost or long-unavailable films have surfaced on DVD and Blu-ray over the past five years, but Olive Films’ new release “Dragonfly Squadron’’ (1954) is probably...
ꦬ Lost Three Stooges short surfaces on DVD
Three Stooges completists thrilled by the recent discovery of the boys’ long-lost 1933 short “Hello, Pop!" ﷽can now buy it as part of the “Classic Shorts From the Dream Faꦬctory:...
Little-known gems with Clara Bow, Lauren Bacal♍l bow on DVD ⛦
🌞Thanks to a whirlwind month devoted to appreciations (Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall), anniversary-themed features ("Rear Window'' and "The Wizard of Oz''), a flood of new theatrical releases and a much-needed...
🎶 A forgotten Judy Holliday classic arrives on Blu-ray
Judy Holliday won the Best Actress Oscar for 1950, besting Bette Davi🐓s and Gloria Swanson, who gave 🧸two of the most iconic performances in Hollywood history in "All About Eve''...
Ernest Borgnine's Oscar-winning Bronx Butcher, Bows on Blu-ray
This is something of a golden age for✨ classic films on Blu-ray, with smaller distributors like Criterion, Olive, Shout! Factory an🔯d Twilight Time offering a steady stream of upgrades (and...
Howౠ Hollywood turned a pro-Soviet epic into Cold War propaganda
𝓡 Lewis Mi🧜lestone's World War II epic "The North Star,'' which has circulated in shabby copies and transfers (see embedded clips) since it slipped into the public domain in 1971, is...
Fritz Lang's crime musical arrives on DVD
Fritz Lang's "You and Me" (1938), a strange and imperfect movie that I love more on each viewing, has finally arrived on DVD via the ꦉTCM Vault Collection, as part...
'A Hard Day's Night' still rocks on Blu-ray and in theaters
"A Hard Day's Night," which finally arrives on a U🌃S Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection just in time for its 50th anniversary, still really rocks. My history with this film...
2 with Gable on DVD, plus details on 75th Anniversary 'Gone With the Wind' Blu-ray
Few major actors of Hollywood's Golden Era played as many newspapermen as Clark Ga𓃲ble -- from "The Secret 6'' through "It Happened One Night,'' "Love on the Run'📖' and "Somewhere...
Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals make Bluꦐ bows
Among the earliest movies I remಌember seeing in a theate𝓰r is Walter Lang's "The King and I,'' (1956) which I caught with my mother during its original run at the...
3 black-and-♈white classics in stunning Blu-ray✱ restorations
MGM/UA Homꦦe Video coined the slogan "in glorious black and white'' to compete with color back catalogue movies back in the VHS era, but it's successor format Blu-ray that has...
'Funny Face' dazzles the eye, ear on Blu-ray
In one of my🅷 favorite restorations in recent years, Stanley Donen's "Funny Face" fairly leaps off the small screen in practically psychedelic primary colors — perhaps the sharpest and brightest representation...
Warner Arc♛hive Collection leads the MOD squad
It's hard to believe the Warner Archi🎶ve Collection launched five years ago this month. The one-time torrent of classic-era films being released on DVD by the majo⭕r Hollywood studios, which...
♊ Midcentury Manhattan on Blu-ray with Woody Allen, Tyrone Po🅺wer
Views of Manhattan i🥂n three different eras are offered in a trio of recent releases from the boutique label Twilight Time, which has now added titles licensed from MGM to...