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What’s On: Your Streaming Picks for March!

Mar 14, 2016 The Retro Set 0

Each month, The Retro Set Staff will select a small handful of films available to stream on a variety of services, including: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Warner Archive, and more. These are films we believe should […]

Fashion

Pictorial Palette: LES GIRLS (1957)

Jan 27, 2016 The Retro Set 0

The Pictorial Palette is a weekly exercise that brings Technicolor glasses to design. By selecting a still from a classic film and exploring its color patterns, it is our hope that these little swaths of color will provide […]

Reviews

Good, Clean Fun: THE DANNY KAYE SHOW

Nov 12, 2015 The Retro Set 0

There are some people who believe that Danny Kaye is an acquired taste. I am not one of those people. He wasn’t an acquired taste to the countless millions who made him a top box […]

Black Maria's Top Picks for the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival
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The Retro Set’s Top Picks for the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival

Mar 19, 2015 The Retro Set 1

The countdown begins as we are exactly one week out from the beginning of TCM’s 6th Annual Classic Film Festival! Film fans from all over the globe will start descending on our little burg of […]

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Must Watch Warner Archive Instant: 2.26.15

Feb 26, 2015 The Retro Set 0

Need help deciding what to watch this week on Warner Archive Instant? The Retro Set has you covered with our must-watch Warner Archive picks! Each week, we select a small handful of must watch titles from […]

Opinion

What Makes a “Classic” Film A Classic?

Jan 12, 2015 The Retro Set 0

“What really makes a classic film a classic?” Ahhh. The age old question. Classic film fans have mulled it over for years. We’ve argued about it, fought about it, unfriended “friends” online in a fit […]

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Must-Watch Warner Archive: 09.25.14

Sep 25, 2014 Jill Blake 1

Need help figuring out what to watch this week on Warner Archive Instant? The Retro Set has you covered with our must have Warner Archive picks! Each week, we select a small handful of titles from […]

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5 Musicals That Got Right What Les Mis Got Wrong

Jul 18, 2013 Kyle Turner 0

Seven months later and I’m still reeling from one of the most disastrous musicals I’ve ever seen on screen. Maybe I’m making too big a deal of it, but it stuns me that Tom Hooper’s […]

Movies

  • Can You Make It Through THE MAZE?
    Feb 4, 2019 0
  • The Good, The Bad and The Eli Wallach Show
    Jan 30, 2019 0
  • John Ford’s YOUNG MR. LINCOLN: The Movie America Needed in 1939
    Jan 24, 2019 0
  • Are You Still SHOOK by Valentino’s THE SHEIK?
    Jan 17, 2019 0
  • Two From the Vault: Depression Early 70s Style
    Jan 15, 2019 0

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  • Corridos and Fairy Tales – Storytelling in The Princess Bride and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

    Nov 27, 2018 0
    In recent months, the Criterion Collection has released two films from the 1980s that are about the art of storytelling. The first, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride (1987), is a beloved Hollywood classic, based on [...]
  • Andrei Rublev and What Hate Has Wrought

    Nov 2, 2018 0
    [This review was begun the same day as the Oct. 27, 2018 Tree of Life shooting.] They killed eleven Jews in Pittsburgh today, gunned down in their synagogue as they prayed round their holy scriptures. [...]
  • There’s HOPE For Us Yet: Bob Hope from Kino Lorber

    Feb 5, 2018 0
    I may get some hits for this, but I posit that classic film fans generally do not have as great an affinity for the popular movie comedians of the 30s and 40s, as they do [...]
  • Fire Walk with #Me Too: A Personal Retrospective on Twin Peaks

    Fire Walk With # Me Too: A Personal Retrospection on Twin Peaks

    Jan 8, 2018 0
    Reviewing a movie you’ve seen a million times over an almost twenty year period is a hard task, especially when it comes to something that has become a large part of your life and that [...]
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    Dame in the Game: Gloria Grahame

    Jul 19, 2017 2
    Gloria Grahame may not seem to fit alongside the women we typically feature in this column — she didn’t found her own company, become a director, break any particular barriers, or do significant philanthropic work. [...]

Lifestyle

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    Breakfast at Natalie’s: Natalie Wood’s Huevos Rancheros
    Sep 16, 2016 1
  • Rudolph Valentino’s “Secret” Spaghetti Sauce
    Sep 9, 2016 2
  • A Retro MUST See – Clifton’s Cafeteria
    Apr 26, 2016 0
  • My San Francisco Tiki Safari Part 2
    Apr 19, 2016 0
  • My Bay Area Tiki Safari
    Apr 12, 2016 0

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    The Ultimate Warren Beatty Hair Guide
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  • 5 Reasons to Watch Coppola’s THE COTTON CLUB (and 3 reasons not to).
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    Remembering Davy Jones
    Feb 29, 2016 1

Events

  • Cinemondo Is an All New World Cinema Series

    Dec 5, 2018 0
    Link TV, the national independent non-commercial satellite television network, is premiering  a new weekly international film series this Thursday called CINEMONDO that brings cinema from around the world to foreign movie fans.
  • LOST LA: Dream Factory

    Dec 19, 2017 0
    I’m a nut for L.A. history, and when that history melds with the early days of Hollywood, I’m in 100%. So I was very excited to screen LOST LA: The Dream Factory.  Most confounding, was my [...]
  • An Afternoon at the Silent Clowns Film Series

    Jun 14, 2017 2
    The Bruno Walter Auditorium is home to the Silent Clowns Film Series, which boasts itself as “New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase.” For twenty years now, the series has provided the public with [...]
  • The Retro Set Virtual Alt-Fest: Saturday Edition

    Apr 8, 2017 0
    Welcome to the Retro Set Virtual Fest: Saturday Edition! Join the party and follow the links below – no matter where you are! This year, you can watch the films at the same time we do. [...]
  • TCM Film Fest Special Feature: Line up wth Raquel Stecher

    Apr 7, 2017 0
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