Month: May 2020

Recognize Memorial Day and National Wine Day with these two classics

Jeff Mitchell

Monday, May 25 is not only Memorial Day, but it’s also National Wine Day.  Since we are a movie site, we think that you should recognize all notable days with a movie.  So, we recommend two.  See Best Picture Oscar winner “The Deer Hunter” (1978) today, give yourself time to recover, and catch Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner “Sideways” (2004) tomorrow. “The Deer Hunter” is truly filled with a who’s-who of movie stars as Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, and Meryl Streep descend on rural Pennsylvania…

Just Because Wednesday, Movies at Home: ‘Les Diaboliques’

Jeff Mitchell

The cover-up is worse than the crime. Isn’t that what public relations specialists always say? Well, it applies when a politician commits adultery, but what if John or Jane Q. Citizen murders someone?  The crime is bad enough on its own, but in “Les Diaboliques” (1955), the immediate cover-up morphs into something else: unbearable paranoia and a deep mystery. Well, it’s no mystery that AHFW features one of our favorite movies every Wednesday…just because!  This week, we’re going back in time 65 years and jumping across the pond to France…

Celebrate International Museum Day with ‘Bringing Up Baby’

Jeff Mitchell

Happy International Museum Day!  We don’t know if a museum is opening near you, but May 18 is the day, come rain or shine, pandemic or no pandemic.  If you want or need to stay indoors, AHFW might have just the right suggestion from yestercentury, 1938’s “Bringing Up Baby”, where Cary Grant plays a paleontologist at the Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History.  The one and only Katharine Hepburn is his co-star, and director Howard Hawks’ screwball romantic comedy is a hilarious treasure that features two Hollywood legends at the peak…