Raquel Stecher

If movie fans have another passion besides movies themselves, it's books about movies. Join us as we welcome special guest Raquel Stecher, film writer and classic movie fan, to talk to us about the best movie books she's discovered recently. On her blog, Out of the Past: A Classic Film Blog, Raquel hosts her annual Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge, which offers film fans stacks and stacks of great books on classic movies. If you love movies and books, you will not want to miss this ...

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Follow me: Out of the Past blog - http://www.outofthepastblog.com Quelle Movies blog - http://www.quellemovies.com Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/RaquelStecher Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/outofthepastblog Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/QuelleMovies#criterioncollection #criterionhaul #classicfilm Mentioned in the video: Be Water (Bruce Lee documentary) http://www.outofthepastblog.com/2020/... Phantom Lady (Joan Harrison biography) https://www.outofthepastblog.com/2020... Lonesom...

Welcome to the Book Journey Series! This is an exciting and new series that came about after the success of my Film Journey Series, but now with a focus on the wondrous medium of books. In this series, we explore our favourite books, the memories we have with them, and so much more! Today I am joined by my good friend Raquel Stecher, who has a ton of book (and movie) knowledge! Let us both know what you think and what are some books that you are reading right now? Find Raquel here: http://www...

I had a wonderful time chatting with Robert and Stephen of the YouTube channel Coffee with Aliens at the Movies about women in Pre-Code film. We discussed The Divorcee (1930), Blonde Crazy (1931), Working Girls (1931), Millie (1931), Safe in Hell (1931), Baby Face (1933), Female (1933) and Design for Living (1933). I hope you'll check out our discussion and subscribe to their channel!

Canada Lee and James Edwards may not be household names, but they deserve to be honored for being trailblazers. These Black actors defied stereotypes and fought for dignified roles on stage and the big screen. They refused to play servants, opting for better roles than their predecessors had been given. And, they both had significant roles in what film historian Donald Bogle calls the four “problem pictures” of 1949: Lee in LOST BOUNDARIES and Edwards in HOME OF THE BRAVE. Both men were ahead...

Welcome to the Book Journey Series! This is an exciting and new series that came about after the success of my Film Journey Series, but now with a focus on the wondrous medium of books. In this series, we explore our favourite books, the memories we have with them, and so much more! Today I am joined by my good friend Raquel Stecher, who has a ton of book (and movie) knowledge! Let us both know what you think and what are some books that you are reading right now? Find Raquel here: http://www...

At the height of his career, French film actor Alain Delon was a worldwide sensation. With his piercing blue eyes, chiseled face, mop of beautiful hair, and defiant sex appeal, Delon is just someone you want to spend a couple hours staring at. His good looks, magnetic onscreen charisma, and emotional remoteness has made Delon the object of fascination for moviegoers over the decades.
Born on November 8, 1935, Delon had a particularly tumultuous upbringing. His parents divorced when he was fou...

Directed by Joseph Pevney and produced by Leonard Goldstein, Flesh and Fury (1952) stars Tony Curtis as a deaf boxer who triumphs in the ring and finds himself in a romantic love triangle with Jan Sterling and Mona Freeman. Hollywood kept going back to the well for stories from the boxing world. It proved to be quality fodder for movies about the human condition, crime and inequality replete with action sequences that kept audiences entertained. UniversalInternational Pictures had been groomi...

In 1967, actor Claude Rains was laid to rest next to his wife Rosemary in Red Hill Cemetery, situated in the tiny New Hampshire town of Moultonborough. His gravesite is just a few miles away from his farmhouse in nearby Sandwich. Built in 1850, The Weed House is a gorgeous Greek Revival style home with an adjacent barn. It was here that Rains spent the last few years of his life taking care of Rosemary, who died of cancer in 1964, tending the land and enjoying the solitude of rustic life. How...

With his latest book Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond, author and horror expert David J. Skal provides readers with the perfect guide for watching spooky films throughout October and the year. The book takes a look at 31 different horror films from NOSFERATU (‘22) to GET OUT (2017). Skal offers insights into how German Expressionism and WWI influenced early horror classics, how Val Lewton threw out horror conventions with CAT PEOPLE (‘42), how DRACULA (‘31) was a...

The pinnacle of Lebanese director Randa Chahal Sabbag’s career also happened to be her swan song. The Kite/Le cerf-volant (2003) is an absurdist tragicomedy about a Lebanese teenager caught between two worlds; one of forbidden love and another of familial obligation. This coming-of-age story stars Flavia Bechara as the protagonist Lamia and takes place in the Druze community of Deir Mimas, a village situated on the Lebanon-Israel border. Chahal Sabbag’s poignant film opens and closes with sce...

Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner offers a metaphysical exploration on the concept of miracles with her brilliant film Lourdes (2009). Set in the Pyrenees Mountains, the film follows a group of sick and disabled patients on their pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes where they perform various rituals in hopes of a miracle. The film stars French actress Sylvie Testud as Christine, a woman in the advanced stages of multiple sclerosis. Although Christine isn’t particularly religio...

Happy Noirvember! Started in 2010 by social media specialist and film expert Marya Gates, #Noirvember is a month-long celebration of film noir in all its forms. And there is so much to celebrate about this style of filmmaking and storytelling. There are so many elements to film noir that make it so captivating: cynical protagonists, hard-boiled detectives, femme fatales, chiaroscuro lighting, urban landscapes, complex plots, flashbacks, narrations, lots of smoking, and a trench coat or two.
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Director Juan Bustillo Oro’s surrealist drama DOS MONJES (’34) was an outlier of early Mexican cinema just as it had entered its golden age. Mexico was in a state of transition in the years after the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War, which suppressed religion, most notably the Catholic church. According to film historian Elisa Lozano, “the national cinema was in search of its identity, wrenched in opposite directions by the popular and the modern.” Bustillo Oro’s early work, especially...