So long everyone. Thanks for five great years of Metro Classics!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Wednesday Nights, 2007-2011
Followers
Related Ephemera
About Us
Popular Posts
-
A brief break from my cold-inspired marathon of Ken Burns's Jazz documentary on the instant netflix to throw down a gauntlet in respon... -
Pre-Classical: Almost as long as there's been narrative cinema, there have been Westerns. The first is generally agreed to be Edwin ... -
Top 5 James Stewart Movies Not Directed by Capra or Hitchcock: 1. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) 2. The Man Who Shot ... -
Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo The samurai as Western hero in Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo . A loose adaptation of Dashi... -
Disneyland opened fifty-five years ago on July 17th, 1955. In the ensuing decades a cavalcade of rides that once flourished have vanished, ... -
Early in the afternoon on Thursday the 15th of December 02005, I was walking down 45th Street from the Metro when I came upon my friend Ni... -
Earlier this week Sean posted a reasoned, well thought-out, but ultimately misguided essay on Charlie Chaplin's superiority. I am now... -
This week, in honor of Nina Paley's astounding one-woman tour-de-force Sita Sings the Blues , I would like to officially unveil the plo... -
Seven Samurai , as it should considering it is The Greatest Film of All-Time, has a 100% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. The praise started way... -
Fiddle-dee-dee! I touched on this topic a bit way back in August in relation to the work of Bette Davis and the ways an audience might r...
Labels
1970s
(1)
2000 movies
(3)
2009 movies
(3)
2010 movies
(3)
a matter of life and death
(4)
aaron campeau
(1)
african queen
(1)
aliens
(4)
all about eve
(6)
all that jazz
(14)
almodovar
(1)
antonioni
(3)
audrey hepburn
(1)
auteurs
(1)
band of outsiders
(1)
barton fink
(5)
bette davis
(1)
big fan
(1)
blu-ray
(1)
bob fosse
(10)
buffalo '66
(1)
carol reed
(1)
cars
(1)
cartoons
(12)
cary grant
(2)
cassandra's dream
(1)
celine and julie go boating
(1)
chaplin
(2)
chaplin vs keaton
(2)
charade
(6)
cheats
(18)
christmas
(1)
chungking express
(5)
cinema books
(1)
citizen kane
(1)
city lights
(6)
clint eastwood
(1)
coen brothers
(1)
comics
(1)
coming attractions
(47)
commando
(6)
connections
(42)
contest
(2)
crimes and misdemeanors
(4)
critics agree
(9)
dance
(4)
debut
(1)
disney
(4)
double indemnity
(4)
double life of veronique
(1)
edna purviance
(1)
elicia sanchez
(1)
enter the dragon
(5)
eric rohmer
(2)
errol morris
(1)
evil dead
(1)
f for fake
(6)
fake blood
(1)
filmspotting
(2)
flaming lips
(1)
flyer
(4)
fred astaire
(2)
galaxy quest
(1)
gene kelly
(1)
gilda
(4)
ginger rogers
(2)
giveaways
(1)
godard
(1)
gone with the wind
(3)
hell
(49)
hellzapoppin
(1)
hiatus
(2)
hilariously human
(14)
hip-hop
(1)
history
(8)
hitchcock
(5)
ikiru
(1)
images
(1)
in a lonely place
(4)
in the mood for love
(4)
interview
(3)
introduction
(1)
jack white
(1)
jarmusch
(2)
jeanne dielman
(1)
john wayne
(1)
joseph mankiewicz
(1)
keaton
(2)
king kong
(1)
kurosawa
(4)
l'avventura
(6)
laura
(10)
liars
(19)
links
(43)
looney tunes
(1)
luara
(1)
mad men
(1)
malick
(1)
marx bros
(1)
milestones
(1)
monica vitti
(1)
movie year showdown
(1)
mr smith goes to washington
(2)
music
(26)
musicals
(2)
my night at maud's
(2)
names
(43)
new world
(1)
nicholas ray
(1)
night of the hunter
(3)
ninja turtles
(1)
noirishly hollywood
(14)
orson welles
(12)
oscars
(2)
patton oswalt
(1)
paul verhoeven
(1)
peckinpah
(1)
pennies from heaven
(1)
perry bible fellowship
(1)
philadelphia story
(1)
pixar
(1)
poem
(1)
pre-game warm-up
(16)
preston sturges
(1)
princess bride
(1)
profile
(1)
ratatouille
(1)
rebecca
(3)
repertory
(3)
reservoir dogs
(1)
rio bravo
(5)
robert seigel
(1)
rosemarys baby
(1)
rules of the game
(5)
ryland walker knight
(1)
scott joplin
(1)
sequentially spacy
(11)
serenity
(4)
seven samurai
(5)
sherlock jr
(4)
showgirls
(1)
singin' in the rain
(5)
sita sings the blues
(4)
star trek II
(7)
steamboat bill
(5)
stephin merritt
(1)
sullivan's travels
(1)
sunset blvd
(6)
sweet and lowdown
(1)
swing time
(6)
tarantino
(2)
television
(1)
thanks
(2)
the adventures of robin hood
(7)
the conversation
(1)
the general
(6)
the immigrant
(5)
the lady eve
(5)
the outlaw josey wales
(5)
the quiet man
(4)
the shining
(1)
the sting
(5)
the wild bunch
(6)
thieves
(17)
tonight
(1)
top 5
(36)
top hat
(1)
touch of evil
(12)
unfaithfully yours
(5)
vanilla ice
(1)
variously musical
(23)
vertigo
(4)
vincent gallo
(1)
ween
(1)
westerns
(2)
who framed roger rabbit
(18)
wong kar-wai
(1)
woody allen
(1)
wu-tang clan
(1)
3 comments:
Really? With a whimper, not a bang?
And with a title card from Week End, just a month before that classic returns to theaters and reminds us how vital an ongoing series like Metro Classics is?
Now I'm even sadder than I had been about being out of town and missing the Celine & Julie / Jeanne Dielman endurance test!
what?!? I just found you. Waaaaah.
Post a Comment