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This morning at 11am, New York’s Film Forum will be screening Buster Keaton’s 1924 classic The Navigator. This film is often ranked with The Gold Rush, City Lights and Kea…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Paramount film Mississippi (1935), directed by Eddie Sutherland and starring W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett. Unlike many …
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Free and Easy (1930), Buster Keaton’s first starring talkie feature. Directed by Edward Sedgwick, Free and Easy is an out-and-o…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious and insane Laurel and Hardy comedy Brats (1930), directed by James Parrott. This is the one where Laurel and Hardy play their…
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Is there any sentiment quite so universal as the American detestation of mimes? I don’t mean Hollywood comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harpo Marx or Buster Keaton, of course. People lo…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the Harry Langdon feature Tramp Tramp Tramp (1926), directed by Harry Edwards, written by Frank Capra, Arthur Ripley et al. In this film, H…
Double features can make strange bedfellows but sometimes unlikely pairings can be unexpectedly apt. Tonight’s theme on TCM is ostensibly food movies, but Charlie Chaplin’s 1925 …
Today at 6pm at the Film Forum,  Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1930 verision of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock. Most Hitchcock studies give this film short shrift and…
Today marks the anniversary of the anniversary of the release date of Fatty’s Faithful Fido (1915). For a time, Arbuckle was sharing his billing with a pooch named Luke. In this …
Tomorrow morning on Turner Classic Movies at 3:00am Eastern, a movie well worth setting your DVR for. My good buddy Bob Greenberg first put me on to this one. It’s Warner Bros. (Vitaph…
Tony Pastor, Father of Vaudeville: Italian-American It’s St. Joseph’s Day! Which is kind of like St. Patrick’s Day for Italians, except in New York we also have Columbus Da…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the hilarious Larry Semon short The Show (1922), co-directed by Semon and Norman Taurog. As in all the Semon-Taurog collaborations this …
Today is the birthday of comic foil Fred Clark (1914-1968). He’s more versatile than that but that’s what we comedy fans tend to think of him as — a comic foil. His imposin…
How do you like THEM apples? I have so much to report about what’s planned for the coming twelvemonth that I’m breathless – -and there’s time enough to tell the rest …
Today on Turner Classic Movies at 2:30pm, the excellent Fritz Lang western Rancho Notorious (1952). In this RKO Technicolor fantasia, Marlene Deitrich is a criminal kingpin with legs a…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of Charlie Chaplin’s comedy short In the Park (1915). This is one of Chaplin’s early films for Essanay Studios, and to me it…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of The Bell Boy (1918), starring Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Al St. John. In this gag-driven short, Arbuckle and Keaton play a couple…
We thought we’d acknowledge St, Patrick’s day by plugging an overlooked film with an Irish setting that’s not The Quiet Man. Ryan’s Daughter (1970) was Davi…
Just got the sad news that the all-too-young David Brenner has passed away. Brenner’s stand-up style was brash and urban as befits a street kid from Philadelphia. (Although his body…
Today is the birthday of Eddie Carmel, The Jewish Giant (1936-1972). Born in Tel Aviv, not far from the stomping grounds of the Biblical Philistine Goliath, Carmel was raised in the Bronx an…
Today is the anniversary of the release date of the classic Laurel and Hardy comedy Thicker than Water (1935). The comedy is divided into four sections. In the first Laurel, who rooms …
Today marks the anniversary of the release date of Look Out Below (1919), the first of Harold Lloyd’s many so-called “thrill comedies”, co-starring Snub Pollard and B…
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy His Favorite Pastime, starring Charlie Chaplin and directed by George Nichols. The title is intended to be ironic…
Today is the birthday of the lovely singer-dancer-actress Olga San Juan (1927-2009). Born in Brooklyn and raised in both Puerto Rico and New York’s Spanish Harlem, San Juan began danci…
