Legolas Haulussy·Oct 6It Happened One Night (1934) : The Great Depression’s Great Romantic ComedyThere are plenty of ways to describe It Happened One Night. You can call it one of the greatest romantic comedies ever made, the film that…
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Filmtrospective·Jun 7It Happened One Night: The Birth of Screwball ComedyBefore romantic comedies became polished formulas filled with grand gestures and predictable meet-cutes, there was It Happened One Night…
Colin Edwards·Aug 11, 2024‘Honor Among Lovers’ or — Deceptively Casual?What’s initially fascinating about director Dorothy Arzner’s ‘Honor Among Lovers’ (1931) is how actively the film appears to be avoiding…
Larrylambert·Aug 11, 202414 Things You Didn’t Know About Claudette ColbertWe’re going way back for this one.A response icon1A response icon1
Colin Edwards·Mar 27, 2023‘Thunder on the Hill’ or — Nun Noir?I was expecting Douglas Sirk’s ‘Thunder on the Hill’ (1951) to be a film noir and even though it can certainly be labelled as such it…
Teresa Abram, Handwriting P. I.·Jun 13, 2020Case Study…. Claudette ColbertI recently did an on the spot, off the cuff, review of a signature. This is something I don’t normally do as there are a number of…
