Around the Blogosphere This Week

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

...Last year the Cinecon Festival held a one-day "pop-up" event at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California. The 2nd Annual "Pop-Up" will be held in the same location on March 21, and I will be there! The schedule looks quite interesting, including TWO GALS AND A GUY (1951) with Robert Alda and Janis Paige, THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (1926) with George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, NIGHT TIME IN NEVADA (1948) with Roy Rogers and Adele Mara, and HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949) with Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte, Susan Hayward, and Debra Paget. Guests will include Robinson's granddaughter, Francesca, along with Gigi Perreau and Patty McCormack. Tickets are for sale here.

...To learn more about Cinecon, please visit my 2025 overview and scroll down to visit all the links for my coverage of last year's festival, which was held Labor Day Weekend in Beverly Hills.

...KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989), a Miyazaki film I loved a couple years ago, will be rereleased on IMAX March 13th. Here is the trailer. (It was a bit surprising for me to watch it as I've always watched Miyazaki films in Japanese, with English subtitles; hearing the characters speak in English was odd for me!)

...Glenn Erickson has reviewed the new Warner Archive Collection Blu-ray release of TARZAN AND HIS MATE (1932).

...A festival which is rather similar to Cinecon, featuring a number of relatively obscure films, is the annual Columbus Moving Picture Show. It will take place in Columbus, Ohio, this Memorial Day Weekend from May 21st to 24th. A number of authors will introduce films including Scott Eyman, Richard Barrios, Steven C. Smith, Lisa Royere, and Laura Jerrolds.

...There will be a very special two-day festival at the Camelot Theatre in Palm Springs this April 24th and 25th: Into Wonderland: The Films of Mary Blair. Four films will be screened: SALUDOS AMIGOS (1942), CINDERELLA (1950), ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951), and PETER PAN (1953). If the TCM Classic Film Festival wasn't taking place the same weekend, I'd be there!

...Speaking of Disney, Imagineering legend Joe Rohde has a book coming out this September: FLOATING MOUNTAINS: THE ART OF IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE. It will be published by National Geographic.

...Today I visited the Cowboys: History & Hollywood exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley, California. I enjoyed it, including seeing John Wayne's hat from HONDO (1953) and Trigger, the famous horse Roy Rogers had preserved after his passing. I'll be writing about the exhibit for a future Western RoundUp column at Classic Movie Hub, along with a little on an exhibit I saw on Black Cowboys at the Autry Museum of the American West in December. Cowboys: History & Hollywood included with the price of admission to the library, and it runs through April 19, 2026.

...Notable Passing: I was especially saddened to learn of the unexpected death of actor Robert Carradine at 71. He was, of course, part of a large acting family which included his father John, brothers David and Keith, daughter Ever, and niece Martha Plimpton. I knew Robert Carradine best not so much as an actor -- though my youngest daughter was a LIZZIE MCGUIRE fan! -- but as a Lone Pine Film Festival "regular" for many years. He enthusiastically joined in various events, including screenings, barbecues, and riding horseback in the annual Sunday parade, and he enjoyed spending time at the festival with friends like Diamond Farnsworth, Wyatt McCrea, and Bruce Boxleitner. Last fall his niece Kansas, David's daughter, came to the festival and entertained us with her roping skills; he was a proud uncle. He's seen here in my photo introducing John Wayne in TYCOON (1947) at the festival last October. He will be very greatly missed by many.

...More Notable Passings: Lauren Chapin, who played Kathy "Kitten" Anderson on TV's FATHER KNOWS BEST (1954-60), has died at 80. She also played the role in a pair of 1977 reunion movies...Character actor John Wheeler has died at 95...Sondra Lee, who was in the original Broadway casts of PETER PAN (1954) and HELLO, DOLLY! (1964), has passed away at 97.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my February 21st column.

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