John Garfield Blogathon

In honor of the March 4th 100^th birthday of the incredibly talented John Garfield, They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To will host a blogathon.

Anyone may participate. Whether you want to write about one of John Garfield's films, his stage career, his "method" acting, his Hollywood blacklisting, or any other facet of his too-short life, you are invited to join in the 100th birthday celebration.

The blogathon will take place that entire weekend---Friday to Monday, March 1st through March 4th. More details will be forthcoming, as will directions for posting your article(s) to the blogathon.  For now, though, just let Patti know if you intend to be part of the fun and what aspect of Mr. Garfield's career or life you'd like to write about.  You can leave a comment on this post or email Patti at pattiamg27@gmail.com.

And the Winners of the 2012 CiMBAs Are....

BEST FILM REVIEW (DRAMA)

Movie Review: The Gunfighter, The Girl with the White Parasol, http://www.thegirlwiththewhiteparasol.blogspot.com/2012/01/movie-review-gunfighter.html

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE ARTICLE

Minority Opinion: The Magnificent Ambersons, Jim Lane’s Cinedrome [6 parts]: Part 1: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/01/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html

BEST BLOG EVENT

A Month of Vertigo, The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/a-month-of-vertigo-bloggers-their-posts.html

BEST FILM REVIEW, MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Grift Tips from the Lady Eve(1941), 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, http://1001moviesblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/grift-tips-from-lady-eve-1941.html

BEST PROFILE OF A CLASSIC MOVIE PERFORMER OR FILMMAKER

Thelma Todd Profile, Part 1 and 2, My Love of Old Hollywood, http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2012/03/gone-too-soon-blogathon-thelma-todd.html http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2012/03/gone-too-soon-blogathon-thelma-todd_11.html

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE BLOG DESIGN

Sittin' On a Backyard Fence, http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE DISCUSSION

Interview with Stunt Double Martha Crawford Cantarini (Parts 1 and 2), Twenty Four Frames, http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/interview-with-stunt-woman-martha-crawford-cantarini-part-one/Part 2http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/interview-with-stunt-double-martha-crawford-canterini-part-two/

The CMBA salutes all of this year's winners, who represent the highest quality in classic movie blogging on the web. Please extend your congratulations to them by leaving a comment below or, better yet, visiting their blog sites.

2012 CiMBA Nominations

BEST FILM REVIEW (DRAMA)

Desperate Housewives of Film Noir, Caftan Woman, http://caftanwoman.blogspot.ca/2012/02/desperate-housewives-of-film-noir.html

The 11-Oscar Mistake, Jim Lane’s Cinedrome, http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2011/10/11-oscar-mistake.html

King Kong (1933), My Love of Old Hollywood, http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2011/09/cmba-guilty-pleasures-blogathon-entry.html

Movie Review: The Gunfighter, The Girl with the White Parasol, http://www.thegirlwiththewhiteparasol.blogspot.com/2012/01/movie-review-gunfighter.html

Touch of Evil, Twenty Four Frames, http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/touch-of-evil-1958-orson-welles/

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE ARTICLE

It’s Not Just a Job, It’s an Adventure: My Low-Budget Film Gig, Tales of the Easily Distracted, http://doriantb.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-not-just-job-its-adventure-my-low.html

Minority Opinion: The Magnificent Ambersons, Jim Lane’s Cinedrome [6 parts]: Part 1: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/01/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html Part 2: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/02/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html Part 3: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/02/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons_21.html Part 4: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons.html Part 5: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons_14.htmlPart 6: http://jimlanescinedrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/minority-opinion-magnificent-ambersons_28.html

A Powell and Pressberger Masterpiece: The Red Shoes, ClassicBecky's Brain Food, http://www.classicbeckybrainfood.blogspot.com/2012/03/red-shoes-powell-and-pressberger.html

A Tale of Two Epics: I, Claudius, The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-claudius-epic-tales.html

What Is a Classic Film? Survey says...  Classic Film & TV Cafe,  http://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2011/12/what-is-classic-film-survey-says.html

BEST BLOG EVENT

Dueling Divas Blogathon, Backlots, http://backlots.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/backlots-first-blogathon-dueling-divas/

A Month of Vertigo, The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/a-month-of-vertigo-bloggers-their-posts.html

2012 Queer Film Blogathon, Garbo Laughs, http://garbolaughs.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/2012-queer-film-blogathon/

Summer Under the Stars Blogathon, Sittin' On a Backyard Fence,  http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/2012/07/30/let-the-games-begin/

William Wyler Blogathon, The Movie Projector, http://themovieprojector.blogspot.com/p/wm-wyler-blogathon.html

BEST FILM REVIEW, MUSICAL OR COMEDY

An American in Paris - The Gene Kelly Centennial Blogathon, The Silver Screen Modiste, http://www.silverscreenmodiste.com/2012/08/an-american-in-paris-gene-kelly.html

CMBA Comedy Classics Blogathon: A Shot in the Dark, Classic Film & TV Cafe,  http://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2012/01/cmba-comedy-classics-blogathon-shot-in.html

CMBA Comedy Classics Blogathon: "Sons of the Desert" and "Way Out West," Caftan Woman, http://caftanwoman.blogspot.ca/2012/01/cmba-classics-comedy-blogathon-sons-of.html

A Foreign Affair,  Another Old Movie Blog, http://anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/uneasy-victors-pt-2-foreign-affair-1948.html

Grift Tips from the Lady Eve (1941), 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, http://1001moviesblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/grift-tips-from-lady-eve-1941.html

To Be or Not to Be – Carole Lombard’s final film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch,The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/10/to-be-or-not-to-be-carole-lombards.html

BEST PROFILE OF A CLASSIC MOVIE PERFORMER OR FILMMAKER

Gene Kelly: Profile of a Dance Master, Shadows and Satin, http://shadowsandsatin.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/gene-kelly-profile-of-a-dance-master/

The Good German: The Life and Legacy of Conrad Veidt, Garbo Laughs, http://garbolaughs.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/the-good-german-the-life-and-legacy-of-conrad-veidt/

Hey, Pluto!, True Classics, http://trueclassics.net/2012/02/18/hey-pluto/

Marilyn Monroe: Out of a Dream, The Lady Eve’s Reel Life, http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2012/08/marilyn-monroe-out-of-dream.html

Thelma Todd Profile, Part 1 and 2, My Love of Old Hollywood, http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2012/03/gone-too-soon-blogathon-thelma-todd.html http://myloveofoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2012/03/gone-too-soon-blogathon-thelma-todd_11.html

BEST BLOG DESIGN

Backlots, http://www.backlots.wordpress.com

Garbo Laughs, http://garbolaughs.wordpress.com/

Java's Journey, http://javabeanrush.blogspot.com

Sittin' On a Backyard Fence, http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/

Tales of the Easily Distracted, http://doriantb.blogspot.com/

BEST CLASSIC MOVIE DISCUSSION

CMBA Guilty Pleasures Blogathon: Cinderella Jones, True Classics,  http://trueclassics.net/2011/09/18/cmba-guilty-pleasures-blogathon-cinderella-jones/

Interview with Stunt Double Martha Crawford Cantarini (Parts 1 and 2), Twenty Four Frames, http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/interview-with-stunt-woman-martha-crawford-cantarini-part-one/ Part 2 http://twentyfourframes.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/interview-with-stunt-double-martha-crawford-canterini-part-two/

3 on 3: Science Fiction Films of the 1950s, Classic Film & TV Cafe,  http://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2011/09/3-on-3-science-fiction-films-of-1950s.html

The Best Hitchcock Films Hitchcock Never Made Blogathon

How many times have you watched a movie that was clearly saluting the man known as “The Master of Suspense”? Filmmakers from Brian DePalma to D.J. Caruso and so many more have aimed for a Hitchcockian feel in their thrillers—and some of them actually did an amazingly good job of bowing to The Master! So this summer, from July 7th through July 12th, Tales of the Easily Distracted and ClassicBecky’s Brain Food are celebrating filmmakers who love Hitchcock. The idea is to not review Alfred's own films, but those that have a Hitchcockian feeling and Hitchcockian elements in them.  For example, North by Northwest shares a lot of themes with The Prize (1963), Psycho surely inspired DePalma's Dressed to Kill (1980) not to mention more than a couple more. A film doesn't have to be based on or inspired by any particular AH film, either: Charade (1963) and Arabesque (1966) certainly have the freewheeling terror that a great Hitchcock film does.  For more information, click here.

William Wyler Blogathon

The Movie Projector is hosting a blogathon June 24-29, 2012, honoring William Wyler, one of the great directors of Hollywood's studio era. Twenty-five bloggers, many of them members of the Classic Movie Blog Association, will be writing on the major films of Wyler's forty-five year long career. For details and a complete schedule of the blogathon, click here to visit the William Wyler Blogathon page at The Movie Projector.

Queer Film Blogathon

The second annual Queer Film Blogathon, hosted by Garbo Laughs, will be held June 18-22, 2012. It will celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or otherwise non-heterosexual, non-gender-binary depictions or personages in film. It's open all film bloggers regardless of era or area of focus. For more info, click here to view details at Garbo Laughs.

The First Ever Horseathon is Here!

The Horseathon, hosted by Page at My Love of Old Hollywood will run from May 25-28. If  you haven't signed up for it, would like more details about it just click here. The deadline for signing up is May 10th.
We hope to see you there!
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