Classic Couple

For the eighth installment in our 2023 Classic Couple Movie Challenge, we offer our take on Casablanca (1942). This week we diverted from our journey with Peter Bogdanovich to take advantage of the opportunity to see Casablanca on the big screen. HERS It’s perfection. Casablanca is a perfect film. It has it all: compelling plot, exotic setting, […]

For the seventh installment in our 2023 Classic Couple Movie Challenge, we offer our take on Adam’s Rib (1949). HERS The scenes at home between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, those signaled with intertitles like “that evening,” are my favorites in Adam’s Rib. The intimacy of the couple—as they have breakfast in bed, greet each other after […]

Our Triangle Classic Movie Club members met virtually in February and came prepared to discuss three top movies and why they love them. Of course, it was unanimous that our movie aficionados had a myriad of movies to give “props” to. It turned out to be a difficult challenge for everyone and it led to a […]

For the sixth installment in our 2023 Classic Couple Movie Challenge, we offer our take on White Heat (1949). HERS White Heat is the most gangster of gangster films. It’s got it all in a fast-paced story involving a merciless gang of criminals, gun molls and dames, hard-nosed cops, and naive prison guards. James Cagney as psychopathic […]

For the fifth installment in our 2023 Classic Couple Movie Challenge, we offer our take on Anatomy of a Murder (1959). HERS Anatomy of a Murder was a new, classic discovery for me. Until this challenge, I had not seen it from start to finish. And now I question what I’ve been doing with my time, especially as […]

Our Triangle Classic Movie Club got together on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at the Regal Crossroads Movie Theater for the Fathom Big Screen Classics 70th Anniversary screening of Roman Holiday (1953). Afterwards, several club members got together at Panera Bread to discuss the film and enjoyed a game of classic movie trivia about Leading Ladies […]

52 classic movies in 52 weeks? Count us in! In 2023 we’re diving into a list of classic movies curated by none other than the great American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian Peter Bogdanovich. In his 1999 book Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week: 52 Classic Films for One Full Year, he […]

Our Triangle Classic Movie Club got together for a film discussion and a game of classic movie trivia. Beforehand, several club members attended the TCM Big Screen Classics 60th anniversary screening of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Our Triangle Classic Movie Club got together for a film discussion and a game of classic movie This or That. Afterward, several club members headed to a viewing of the TCM Big Screen Classics 55th anniversary screening of In the Heat of the Night. Classic Movie This or That Game Instructions for how to to […]

Our club got together for a film discussion followed by the viewing of the Big Screen Classics – Poltergeist.