the passionate moviegoer

a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies neglected and mostly misunderstood

Saturday, September 20, 2008

cinema obscura: Mervyn LeRoy's "Home Before Dark" (1958)

›
A shameless, obscenely entertaining guilty pleasure, "Home Before Dark" is a tangy, campy soap opera in which director Mervyn LeRo...
9 comments:
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What's with HBO?

›
Can anyone out there please explain why HBO, the premiere cable channel, doesn't show any of its feature films in wide screen? Never. ...
10 comments:
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Gidget Goes Washington

›
"............Hey, what's so tough about running the country?............" For better or worse - probably worse - we live in ...
12 comments:
Friday, September 05, 2008

life, documented: God Backwards Is Dog

›
If there is a God - and at this point in my life, I seriously doubt that there is - how can He (or She) explain the likes of Michael Vick a...
12 comments:
Sunday, August 10, 2008

hearsay

›
Old movies, because of what they are, serve as their own documentations. If one is curious about a certain title – or about a performance i...
5 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.