Here are my capsule reviews of the four Gary Cooper movies that will be screened this weekend as part of the Black Bear Film Festival tribute to Cooper at the Milford Theatre (PA).  I’ll be interviewing his daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, before three of the films.  Here they are in the order in which they will [...]

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On April 20-22, I’ll be hosting the Black Bear Film Festival’s Gary Cooper weekend at the Milford Theatre in PA.  The special treat will be the appearances of Cooper’s daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, at three of the four screenings.  I’ll interview her before these films, conduct Q&As with her after the movies, and then she will be available [...]

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Dan Callahan’s new book, Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman, is a case of the right book by the right person at the right time.  As Callahan reminds readers, Stanwyck was once, along with Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis, part of the “holy trinity” of screen actresses during the classic studio era.  But, while the legends of [...]

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I’ll be back at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans next week, this year doing a program called “Streetcar. . . Is That You?” which is a look at movies that borrowed somewhat liberally, if perhaps unconsciously, from Williams’ 1947 masterwork A Streetcar Named Desire.  Last year, I did a program more directly [...]

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Just finished proof-reading my new book.  Due out May 1st, Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies is. . . well, here’s its back-cover description: Screen Savers II is John DiLeo’s three-part “grab bag of classic movies,” beginning with his extensive essays about ten remarkable and underappreciated movies, as in the first Screen Savers, and representing [...]

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