Tagged: classic films

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2011 – 1939 Film Blogathon

YAM Magazine is crashing the Classic Movie Blog Association’s party by unofficially participating in its only-members 1939 Film Blogathon, and hosting every non-CMBA-member post about anything of 1939 worldwide cinema.

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Billy Liar

Seminal film from the British New Wave, Academy Award-winner John Schlesinger directs Tom Courtenay as Billy, a working-class boy with lofty dreams and too many women.

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A Brief History of Title Design

Put together by Ian Albinson, founder of The Art of the Title Sequence, this video presentation was shown for the SXSW Excellence in Title Design competition screening.

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Irene (1940)

Largely forgotten musical romance from RKO Radio Pictures, starring Academy Award winner Ray Milland and Anna Neagle. The film features a stunning technicolor sequence.

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Personal Property

Personal Property is a 1937 romantic comedy helmed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Robert Taylor and the original blonde bombshell, Jean Harlow.

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Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce is the story of Mildred, a housewife whose unconditional love for her child would lead her to be involved in a murder investigation.

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Kid, The (1921)

Charles Chaplin’s The Kid follows a man and a little kid that have been brought together by fate, when his mother abandons him and he ends up in poor neighborhood living with a tramp.