classic hollywood – Page 2 – What is Best in Life

My Favorite Movies 52: Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

isley.unruh / April 14, 2014

Most of Marilyn Monroe’s films rank quit high on my list of favorite movies, but if I had to pick […]

isley.unruh / January 13, 2014

Of the string of early 1930s Universal Studios horror films for which director James Whale is best known, my easy […]

isley.unruh / August 12, 2013

It’s a Gift is one hell of a depressing comedy. It’s like just being on the edge of going to […]

For someone who has always been a silent comedy fan, it took me a while to give the humor of […]

For the uninitiated, film noir can be a disappointing thing. The colorful dialog often veers dangerously close to camp Calvin […]

isley.unruh / February 11, 2013

Man do I love heist movies. I’m not talking about wacky romps like the Ocean’s 11 movies (though they are fine […]

isley.unruh / December 10, 2012

As one of the first, and most famous, “pacifist westerns,” it is tempting to discuss Destry Rides Again in terms […]

isley.unruh / November 12, 2012

Few directors dominated the early 1940s like Preston Sturges. While not the first writer-director, Sturges was the most famous early […]

isley.unruh / August 29, 2012

Because the Sunday mornings of my childhood usually involved me sleeping in and then eating blueberry pancakes while watching Basil […]

If Hollywood films are all merely bits of magical mythmaking, then the musicals of the 1930s are their apotheosis. In […]