“With the buttons, it was like, hey, look at my chest. Now with the ribbons, it’s like, hey, now check out my crotch!” The good news is that today I woke up and realized that I wasn’t hungover Saturday—it was jetlag! That’s because I was jetlagged today too. Boo. Oh Read more…
“It’s like Harold Lloyd without his glasses—no one would recognize Elvira in a turtleneck.” I woke up hungover. Hell, I still am hungover and it’s six something in the evening. It’s my own damn fault, but the consequence was that I missed the History of Vitaphone presentation that had been Read more…
“I mean, I don’t want to throw around the phrase Nazi sympathizer…” “Hey now, let’s stick with collaborator.” The second true day of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival was a humbling experience in some ways, utterly nutty in others. I saw Angela Lansbury blow kisses to the masses, I Read more…
“That’s Gene Kelly’s widow! I see her here every year. I just like that I can say that.” I slept in on Thursday. Are you surprised? No. I slept in and got a free Snickers bar from the Magic Castle. Life isn’t too bad, I guess. I stumbled my way Read more…
“You’re a dad and shit and doing stuff.” It was harder to leave my kid than I thought it would be. The last month or so she’s started smiling a lot in the morning, and she has a gloriously beautiful smile. I miss my wife, too, though all of our Read more…
Pre-Code.Com Site News for May 2016 Hey! This is late. Between my semester wrapping up and a host of other preparation for the TCM Film Fest– which you’ll see coverage of starting here on late Wednesday– I’ve been swamped. So pardon if some of the descriptions below are glib or Read more…
Danilo Maurice Chevalier Sonia Jeanette MacDonald Ambassador Edward Everett Horton King George Barbier Queen Una Merkel Orderly Sterling Holloway Released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer | Directed by Ernst Lubitsch Proof That It’s Pre-Code-ish How sexually carefree and attractive is the Chevalier character this go around? At a mod Parisian brothel, Read more…
Tom Brown Gary Cooper Amy Jolly Marlene Dietrich La Bessiere Adolphe Menjou Released by Paramount | Directed by Josef von Sternberg Run time: 91 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film “What are you doing with those fingers?” “Nothing. … yet.” One infamous scene has Dietrich, in a tux, kissing Read more…
Bruce Foster Tom Brown Maizie Dickson Joan Blondell Bob Parks Kenneth Thompson Released by Warner Bros. | Directed by Lloyd Bacon Run time: 74 minutes Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film There’s a murder set off by a pair of adulterers… adultering. “That’s not your business!” “No, that’s monkey business!” Read more…
“It’s here, it’s here!” proclaimed Raquel when I opened up Twitter Tuesday morning. Within a few minutes, Angela had sent me a half dozen Snapchats, half shaking fists, half drenched in excitement. Yes, Monday afternoon stateside, Turner Classic Movies released the full line up for the 2016 TCM Film Festival, Read more…