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HomeTCM Classic Film Festival 2017

TCM Classic Film Festival 2017

Festivals

DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME Brings the Dead to Life

Jun 27, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

There are countless reasons to rejoice in the TCM Classic Film Festival, held every year in Hollywood. And this past April was no exception.  Beyond the many cinematic pleasures, well-known and obscure that screen side-by-side, […]

Events

The Retro Set Virtual Alt-Fest: Saturday Edition

Apr 8, 2017 Wade Sheeler 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. […]

Events

TCM Film Fest Special Feature: Line up wth Raquel Stecher

Apr 7, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0
Events

The Retro Set Virtual Alt-Fest: Friday Edition!

Apr 7, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

Welcome to the Retro Set Virtual Fest: Friday Edition! Join the party and follow the links below – no matter where you are! We understand that most of our followers, and lovers of TCM are […]

Events

The Retro Set Virtual Alt-Fest: Join the Party!

Apr 6, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

Welcome to our first ever, virtual-Film Fest in Honor of the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival going on in Hollywood right now! We understand that most of our followers, and lovers of TCM are not […]

Events

TCM Film Fest Special Feature: Who’s That I Saw You In Line With? Jeremy Warner

Apr 6, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0
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TCM Film Fest Special Feature: Who’s That I Saw You In Line With? Theresa Brown

Apr 5, 2017 Wade Sheeler 1
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Who’s That I Saw You In Line With? Kellee Pratt

Apr 4, 2017 Wade Sheeler 7
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TCM Classic Film Festival 2017: THE RETRO SET PICKS

Mar 24, 2017 The Retro Set 4

Jill Blake and Wade Sheeler sit down to discuss, debate and tear their hair out over the most exciting TCM Classic Film Festival EVER! It’s time once again for THE RETRO SET PICKS! Well, it’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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Opinion

  • 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 [...]
  • Gloria Grahame

    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

  • Natalie Wood
    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 Back Page

  • Condemned Movie Header
    The 5 Most Ridiculous “Condemned” Movies of All Time
    Mar 17, 2016 3
  • Martini ChrisMix: A Spotify Holiday Playlist
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    The 8 Most Cinematic Duran Duran Music Videos Of All Time
    Apr 15, 2016 6
  • Buddy Holly: The Day the Music Was Born
    Sep 7, 2016 1
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    7 Times William Shatner was The Shit
    Mar 22, 2016 2

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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