Around the Blogosphere This Week

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

...It's a fairly slow week for classic movie news, but a few things of note! First, we had a marvelous time last evening seeing a very beautiful nitrate 35mm print of PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (1948). It was shown as part of the American Cinematheque's 2025 Nitrate Film Festival. Additional screenings have been added to the series, including a second showing of ROPE (1948); the screening we're attending next Friday sold out.

...The Film Noir Foundation has announced the dates for this year's Noir City Hollywood Festival. It will be held at the Egyptian Theatre from March 20-23 and March 27-30.  The titles have not yet been revealed.

...Kino Lorber Studio Classics made a very interesting "coming soon" Blu-ray announcement this week: The pre-Code NIGHT WORLD (1932) starring Boris Karloff, Lew Ayres, and Mae Clarke will be out in the future, from a brand-new HD master.

...I've been confirmed to review the new MGM Blu-ray releases of OUTPOST IN MALAYA (1952) and LADY OF VENGEANCE (1957), so be on the lookout for those. They should arrive in a few days.

...Toby has reviewed the new Criterion Collection release of WINCHESTER '73 (1950) at his site 50 Westerns From the 50s.

...For The American Scholar, published by Phi Beta Kappa, Noah Isenberg has reviewed former Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan's brand-new book LOUIS B. MAYER AND IRVING THALBERG: THE WHOLE EQUATION, published by Yale University Press. It sounds like a "must read."

...Speaking of books, last night at Larry Edmunds Bookshop I picked up two older books, THE CINEMA OF EDWARD G. ROBINSON, a 1972 book by James Robert Parish and Alvin H. Marill, and Scott Eyman's THE SPEED OF SOUND: HOLLYWOOD AND THE TALKIE REVOLUTION 1926-1930.

...At Comet Over Hollywood Jessica has reviewed CONSPIRACY (1939), a Lew Landers "B" film starring Allan "Rocky" Lane and Linda Hayes. Although this isn't one of Landers' strongest "B's," I'm always glad to see his work get attention; he usually managed to give programmers a little "something extra," and I'm always interested when I see his name in the credits.

...I loved Toby's memories of the CBS Late Movie, shared at The Hannibal 8. I was also a young late-night movie viewer, though more often I was up in the wee hours watching old MGM films on KTTV Channel 11 out of Los Angeles.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my February 8th column.

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