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23 Aug 2009

Classic Film on Twitter

If you’ve given in and joined Twitter – the latest online craze – you can get news and info about classic film in between all those tweets in your stream about who’s mowing their lawn and who had an especially tasty sandwich for lunch.  Here’s who to follow:

Turner Classic Movies – @tcm

Updates from the cable movie channel about upcoming programming as well as general discussion about specific films and stars.
Elizabeth Taylor – @DameElizabeth
This one’s been certified by the folks at Twitter as Liz’s official feed.  Although she doesn’t often tweet specifically about the world of classic film, it’s still interesting to know what she’s up to.
Lauren Bacall – @Lauren_Bacall
I’m not actually sure if this one is run by Lauren, but it’s fun to read none the less.  Frequent reminisces about fellow movie star friends and pictures of them together are very interesting.

Nick Charles – @Thin_Man
An anonymous fan tweets solely lines spoken by the dashing detective in any of the 6 “Thin Man” films.  Highly entertaining.
American Film Institute – @AmericanFilm
Mostly links to various videos housed in their newly launched video portal (which we blogged about here) with a few fun tweets thrown in including movie trivia, upcoming events and retweets of other prominent members of the movie world.
Let us know if you find any others worth following – enjoy!
23 August, 2009 at 13:00 by Lindsay

Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall
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5 Aug 2009

AFI Video Portal

The American Film Institute has launched the beta version of a new video portal that classic movie fans may find interesting.  The site houses clips from such events as the Life Achievement Awards, the 100 years… series, and various seminars.  The site is a little slow and difficult to navigate, but hopefully these issues will be addressed during this testing period.  I hope they’ll be adding to the content, as there are some Life Achievement Award ceremonies I’d love to see that are currently not posted (Cagney, Welles, Wilder, Bette Davis, etc).

I especially enjoyed watching clips from Alfred Hitchcock’s Life Achievement Award ceremony  with appearances by Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Stewart, Vera Miles, Tippi Hedren, Henry Fonda, Theresa Wright, Jane Wyman, Edith Head, and more.  When dear Ingrid makes a lovely speech to congratulate him and thank him for his guidance, Hitch never cracks a smile.
We’ll report back and let you know if/when they add more classic movie-related videos!
5 August, 2009 at 18:09 by Lindsay

Tags: Alfred Hitchcock
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