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The current featured List is “The British Film Institute’s Top 100 Films”
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Classic Film School is designed for the classic film enthusiast.
Whether you’re a novice old movie watcher or a self-proclaimed cinema aficionado, Classic Film School is meant to be a tool to enable and enhance the classic movie viewing experience.
The Film Commentary blog discusses many of the classics that matter, and the 1939 blog focusses on the output of the most exceptional year in film history.
From what is considered to be a “classic” (check out the Must See Lists) to the many venues available to accessing great old movies (the Theaters, TV and Rentals sections), Classic Film School endeavors to encourage an appreciation for yesterday’s movies (check out the Print and Online recommendations).
Enjoy! And remember (to loosely paraphrase Lauren Bacall), an old movie is a new movie if you’ve never seen it before.
OSCAR NIGHT SHOULD BE SOMETHING TO SEE THIS YEAR:
Editor’s Note 2/28/10
Oscar night is always a lot of fun for the movie fan, but this year’s celebration of Hollywood filmmaking at its finest should be a memorable one on many levels. One always hopes for an entertaining evening, but that is not always the case. In fact, sometimes its just plane boring. But whether or not there are any upsets or surprise wins this year, at the very least the hosts are bound to be very entertaining. Right?
After all you’ve got Steve Martin, one of the greatest living comedic minds living, brilliantly paired up with one of the funniest men on television today, Alec Baldwin. Martin and Baldwin (besides other things) are known for their individual legendary hosting duties on “Saturday Night Live”, and play up a public rivalry over who holds the title for hosting the live comedy show the most times. So you know this playful one-up-man-ship will come into play March 7th. Finally, we may actually see the return of the light-hearted side of Oscar that’s been missing since the days of Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. Billy Crystal was always great, and Hugh Jackman was a breath of fresh air, but the Oscars don’t need a side show with which to compete. Just some light moments to keep things moving will do nicely.
Featured TV is TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar, showing Oscar nominated films all Month long.
Featured Theater is The American Cinematheque’s Westside arm, The Aero in Santa Monica, CA.
Online Feature
of the Month is
FilmJerk.com.
Rental
Feature of
the Month:
NetFlix.
And as much as I like him, Jon Stewart was just too light and fluffy. It was not a good fit. On the other extreme Chris Rock was just too good, and taken way too seriously by the Hollywood audience (it was a joke, Sean Penn!). Some of the other past hosts are better left unmentioned. But this year I have high hopes for a new standard that I hope will set the bar for future Academy Award hosts, and leave us all wondering where the time flew after the three or four hour show has finally reached its conclusion. Maybe the event will even lead to an historical co-hosting of “Saturday Night Live”? Regardless, I’ll be watching the Oscars live for the first time in years just to see how well these two great funny men play together.
Some of Oscar’s past winners are listed below.
