Classic Cinema – Foote & Friends on Film https://footeandfriendsonfilm.com Any film you haven't seen -- is a new experience! Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:19:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-FF-1-32x32.png Classic Cinema – Foote & Friends on Film https://footeandfriendsonfilm.com 32 32 Judy Garland – An Appreciation /2019/06/10/judy-garland-an-appreciation/ /2019/06/10/judy-garland-an-appreciation/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:44:33 +0000 /?p=9505 By Alan Hurst June 22, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Judy Garland. She was only 47, but seemed to have packed multiple lifetimes into that short span of years. She had achieved significant success in films, records, on stage, and on television, but the well-known struggles were equally part of her…

The post Judy Garland – An Appreciation appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2019/06/10/judy-garland-an-appreciation/feed/ 0 The Funniest Performances by Actresses in the Seventies /2019/02/19/the-funniest-performances-by-actresses-in-the-seventies/ /2019/02/19/the-funniest-performances-by-actresses-in-the-seventies/#respond Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:25:41 +0000 /?p=7751 By Alan Hurst Flipping channels a few nights ago we caught a few minutes of What’s Up Doc? (1972), probably my favourite comedy of the seventies. It was at the point in the film where Madeline Kahn – upset, wig askew – was loudly expressing her frustration with being treated so badly by her fiancé…

The post The Funniest Performances by Actresses in the Seventies appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2019/02/19/the-funniest-performances-by-actresses-in-the-seventies/feed/ 0 Valentine’s Day with Two Douglas Sirk Classics /2019/02/12/valentines-day-with-two-douglas-sirk-classics/ /2019/02/12/valentines-day-with-two-douglas-sirk-classics/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:17:06 +0000 /?p=7577 By Alan Hurst I’ve been looking for a reason to write about two of my favourite Douglas Sirk films and, with Valentine’s Day around the corner, the timing is perfect. When Sirk hit his prime in the mid 1950’s his films were major money makers for Universal but they were not critically well received, particularly…

The post Valentine’s Day with Two Douglas Sirk Classics appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2019/02/12/valentines-day-with-two-douglas-sirk-classics/feed/ 0 Best Actress: My “Should Have Won” from 1940-49 /2019/01/11/best-actress-my-should-have-won-from-1940-49/ /2019/01/11/best-actress-my-should-have-won-from-1940-49/#respond Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:50:25 +0000 /?p=5263 By Alan Hurst A great era for performances by some of Hollywood’s best and brightest, the forties were the dream decade with dozens of films headlined by women, many of which found their way into the annual competition for the Best Actress Oscar. I think the Oscars got it right on more than a few…

The post Best Actress: My “Should Have Won” from 1940-49 appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2019/01/11/best-actress-my-should-have-won-from-1940-49/feed/ 0 Revisiting THE QUIET MAN (1952) /2019/01/09/revisiting-the-quiet-man-1952/ /2019/01/09/revisiting-the-quiet-man-1952/#respond Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:29:26 +0000 /?p=5211 By Alan Hurst If you watch The Quiet Man through the filter of 2019, it could easily be dismissed as being a broad and overly sentimental comedy, hopelessly dated and filled with misogynism and superficial stereotypes. But to do that, you would deprive yourself of one of the most perfect movies director John Ford ever made,…

The post Revisiting THE QUIET MAN (1952) appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2019/01/09/revisiting-the-quiet-man-1952/feed/ 0 Revisiting A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) /2019/01/04/revisiting-a-letter-to-three-wives-1949/ /2019/01/04/revisiting-a-letter-to-three-wives-1949/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2019 15:42:19 +0000 /?p=5087 By Alan Hurst For whatever the reason, there was a dearth of great comedies in the late forties but thankfully that was remedied with the 1949 release of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’ A Letter to Three Wives. Mankiewicz enjoyed a successful hyphenate career as producer, writer and director (not always at the same time) from the…

The post Revisiting A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2019/01/04/revisiting-a-letter-to-three-wives-1949/feed/ 0 Revisiting A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) /2019/01/02/revisiting-a-streetcar-named-desire-1951/ /2019/01/02/revisiting-a-streetcar-named-desire-1951/#respond Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:52:33 +0000 /?p=5060 By John H. Foote (****) When Tennessee Williams wrote The Glass Menagerie, he drew heavily on his own life, his past and the result was the birth of the neo realistc American theatre. A Streetcar Named Desire would blow the lid off that movement and, together with Arthur Miller’s Death Of a Salesman, make the late forties the…

The post Revisiting A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2019/01/02/revisiting-a-streetcar-named-desire-1951/feed/ 0 Hello, Dolly! – The Sets Behind the Massive Musical /2018/12/31/hello-dolly-the-sets-behind-the-massive-musical/ /2018/12/31/hello-dolly-the-sets-behind-the-massive-musical/#respond Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:14:10 +0000 /?p=5011 By Craig Leask Much like the Cleopatra (1963) filming fiasco and its nearly devastating effect on the financial stability of 20th Century Fox Studios, Hello, Dolly! (1969) nearly accomplished the same thing by practically bankrupting the same studio, not through a lack of planning and over paying its actors as with Cleopatra, but by vastly…

The post Hello, Dolly! – The Sets Behind the Massive Musical appeared first on Foote & Friends on Film.

]]> /2018/12/31/hello-dolly-the-sets-behind-the-massive-musical/feed/ 0