Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the internet...

...Congratulations to my friend (and longtime TCM Fest roomie!) KC (Kendahl Cruver) of Watching Classic Movies; she has just published an eBook, THE CLASSIC FILM FAN USA TRAVEL GUIDE: OVER 500 ATTRACTIONS FOR ROAD TRIPS AND ONLINE EXPLORATION. Lots of great trip ideas in this book! (And I'm honored to have a photo I took of Lone Pine's Museum of Western Film History on the cover.) A list of online shops where it may be purchased can be found here.

...CineSavant Glenn Erickson has reviewed Kino Lorber's new Blu-ray release of William Wyler's COUNSELLOR AT LAW (1933). I reviewed it myself a few days ago. We each highly recommend both the film and the disc.

...Last week I shared the great news that Kino Lorber has a second Audie Murphy Blu-ray collection on the way. Just a few days later Kino Lorber announced a third Murphy set! It will contain POSSE FROM HELL (1961), SHOWDOWN (1963), and HELL BENT FOR LEATHER (1960), which I reviewed last year for Classic Movie Hub. I've also shared photos of some of the movie's locations here. Needless to say, both these sets are exciting news.

...Coming June 13th from Kino Lorber: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1978), starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down.

...Warner Bros. was founded on April 4, 1923. Here's Chris Yogerst on the founding of the studio for the Hollywood Reporter. His book on the studio is due out this fall.

...Last week the Film Noir Foundation announced that this year's Noir City Hollywood Festival will take place at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica from August 4th through 13th. I'll be sharing information on the schedule as it becomes available. In the meantime, be sure to check out my post on the schedule for the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival which takes place in Palm Springs next month!

...The week after hosting the Arthur Lyons Festival, Alan K. Rode will host a May 20th screening of BLOOD ON THE MOON (1948) in the "What is a Western?" series at the Autry Museum of the American West. The movie will be shown in the museum's Wells Fargo Theater. He'll also be signing copies of his new book on the film, published by the University of New Mexico Press.

...I'm hearing good things about AIR (2023), with Ben Affleck as Nike's Phil Knight and Matt Damon as a marketing employee who makes a shoe deal with Michael Jordan. Here are reviews by Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times and Leonard Maltin.  A trailer may be watched here.

...Kino Lorber is having a spring sale which will continue through April 24th.

...The Criterion Channel is four years old today! It started on April 8th, 2019.

...TV's BLUE BLOODS, starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg, has just been renewed for Season 14.

...RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) returns to theaters later this month in honor of its 40th (gulp!) anniversary.

...Coming in August from the University Press of Kentucky: ELEANOR POWELL: BORN TO DANCE by Paula Broussard and Lisa Royere.

...Notable Passings: Actress Sharon Acker, whose films included POINT BLANK (1967) opposite Lee Marvin, has passed on at 87...Judy Farrell, who played Nurse Able in several episodes of M*A*S*H, has died at 84. She was at one time married to M*A*S*H costar Mike Farrell...Bill Butler, the cinematographer of JAWS (1974), passed away last week on April 5th, two days short of his 102nd birthday.

...Please note there will not be an Around the Blogosphere column next weekend, when I will be attending the TCM Classic Film Festival. The festival takes place in Hollywood from April 13th to 16th, 2023.  My news roundup column will return on April 22nd.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please check out my April 1st roundup.

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