So, have we all agreed

that tumblr is basically the new frontier of old movie fandom?

Good.

Screening Log for June 2011

Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (C+)
X-Men: First Class (A-, I have a thing for Fassbender and McAvoy, okay?)
Words and Music (B+)
Uncle Silas (B)
The Leech Woman (B+)
Death of a Scoundrel (B)
Adam and Evelyne (B+)
The Gay Sisters (B+/D+ ... basically, I can't make up my mind about this movie)
Trio (A-)
Winter's Bone (B+)
So Long at the Fair (A)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (A-)
Lizzie (C-)
The Robe* (C)
The Blue Lagoon (1949) (B, for guilty pleasure reasons)
The Actress* (A-)
The Grass is Greener* (B)
This Could Be the Night (B+)
Affair with a Stranger (B-/C+)
Young Bess* (B+, for nostalgic reasons)
Public Speaking (A-)
Water for Elephants (B+)
Angel Face* (A+)
Stage Fright (B)
A Bullet is Waiting (D+)
Footsteps in the Fog (B+)
She Couldn't Say No (C)
Home Before Dark (A-)
Life at the Top (B+)
Elmer Gantry* (B+)
Rodan (C)
The Blob (B+, the "plus" is for Steve McQueen)
The H-Man (C+)
The Clouded Yellow (B+)

*Movies I've seen before

Independence Day Obsession: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

Latest Classic Cinema Obsession is HERE.

So, I just ordered three Jean Simmons movies from the Warner Archive Collection...

... because I'm not ready to say goodbye to Jean Simmons! Jean was TCM's Star of the Month in June and I'm already beyond sad that June is now officially over. Farewell, SOTM Jean! I offer my admiring thoughts about Ms. Simmons HERE at Libertas in my latest Classic Movie Journal.

I also wax poetic about one of her best movies, ANGEL FACE (Preminger, 1952). It's as disturbing and genuinely shocking a film noir as any I've seen. In fact, back in the day Jean-Luc Godard included it as one of his ten best American films EVER, which is pretty freakin' high praise!

Your LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN Picture of the Day

Derelict Goes to Hollywood

Basically, the TCM Classic Film Festival was everything I hoped it would be and more. To read my rambling musings on the whole shebang, go to Libertas Film Magazine HERE.

I stuck to my schedule for the most part, but I did make some interesting changes and ended up seeing movies I wasn't planning to see, both out of choice and necessity. Final verdict on the festival: I will definitely be going again next year.

And it turns out Twitter -- which I resisted for so long -- is pretty darn cool. I ended up meeting fellow festival-goers @tpjost, @salesonfilm, and @oldfilmsflicker through Twitter and they turned out to be very groovy people indeed. Meeting other old movie fanatics who are also young?! WIN!

What I'm Planning to See at the TCM Film Fest

This is always subject to change, because I'm just one of those wild and crazy spontaneous kinda gals and who the heck knows what I'll feel like doing once I get there, but here's what I'm hoping to see at the Festival as of today, Wednesday, April 27th:

Thursday
6:30 PM -- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (red carpet walkin', yo!)
10:15 PM -- THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN (As a newly-made disciple of Sternberg, how could I not?)

Friday
10:00 AM -- THE CONSTANT NYMPH (How can I go against The Siren?)
1:00 PM -- ROYAL WEDDING (Astaire. On a ceiling. Dancing. 'Nuff said.)
4:00 PM -- BRITISH AGENT (Leslie Howard takes on the Bolsheviks)
6:15 PM -- DESIGN FOR LIVING (I've never seen this essential classic, so what better way to see it than on the big screen?)
9:15 PM -- DODSWORTH (Again, this is One of the Greats, and I've never seen it. My plan for this festival is to have as many "first time" viewings as possible.)
12:00 AM -- THE TINGLER (How could I resist?)

Saturday
12:30 PM -- HOOP-LA (MOMA restoration of Clara Bow's last film)
3:45 PM -- WENT THE DAY WELL? (It was a tough call: Do I go to the rarely-seen movie I've never heard of before OR do I see one of my all-time favorites in a new 70th anniversary restoration? While I'm not normally one to pass up the opportunity to see CITIZEN KANE on the big screen, I don't think I can miss the chance to see a rarity like WENT THE DAY WELL?)
7:00 PM -- THE CAMERAMAN (with Vince Giordano and His Nighthawks Orchestra!)
9:30 PM -- GASLIGHT (Angela Lansbury will be there. Can't. Wait.)

Sunday
7:30 AM -- Mass! (The most important event of the festival)
9:15 AM -- THE SID SAGA (I honestly have no idea what this will be like, but it sounds too crazy to miss!)
3:45 PM -- A TRIBUTE TO THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS (Between Fred Astaire in ROYAL WEDDING and this Nicholas Brothers tribute, I'll be in movie dancing heaven)
5:45 PM -- LAUGH O'GRAMS (I'll probably leave the Nicholas Brothers tribute early to get a good seat for these cartoon shorts. Widely known fact: I wanted to be a Disney cartoonist when I was seven years old.)
7:15 PM -- FANTASIA (One of my movie obsessions.)