You need to track down Catherine Deneuve doing Humphrey Bogart in Ecoute Voir...! My new article at TrembleSighWonder! tremblesighwonder.com/2026/04/19/d...

You need to track down Catherine Deneuve doing Humphrey Bogart in Ecoute Voir...! My new article at TrembleSighWonder! tremblesighwonder.com/2026/04/19/d...

Update: Guys, I know THEY ALL LAUGHED has a DVD & it's uploaded it on YT, I was pointing out that the ONLY HD version of it has disappeared, as it was only on HBO Max...but it turns out it IS on Cinemax right now, of all things, so it is still available as opposed to some rights issue..

Was it Tarantino who said the 60s sucked in cinema? Seems August 1967 had some pretty good choices in New York City:

I hope you got to see THEY ALL LAUGHED in HD on HBOMax while they had it, because it's no longer available anywhere again (?)

On Sunday, December 18, 1972, New Yorkers had some choices the day THE HEARTBREAK KID opened.

Obscure YT of the day: VERY MEAN MEN (2000), a mob comedy w/ a helluva cast: Matthew Modine, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young, Charles Durning, Martin Landau & Louise Fletcher! Directed by Tony Vitale (KISS ME GUIDO)! youtu.be/s808hx4tyyM?...

A24’s The Omen reboot just dropped.

Obscure YT of the day: After making the French Connection, the legendary Roy Scheider starred in ASSIGNMENT: MUNICH (1972) w/ Lesley Ann Warren! Richard Basehart, Robert Redd (Brady Bunch) & Keenan Wynn costar! From the director of Eye of the Cat! youtu.be/uJGBQ5XkDKU?...

Just hit 5 years of TrembleSighWonder, thanks for reading.

Obscure YT of the day: Sidney J. Furie (IPCRESS FILE, LADY SINGS THE BLUES, THE ENTITY) made GABLE & LOMBARD (1976), w/ James Brolin & Jill Clayburgh portraying the huge stars. Melanie Mayron, Red Buttons & Allen Garfield costar! From the writer of MAKING LOVE! youtu.be/EwF8oIlcjbM?...

Obscure Blake Edwards of the day: 1956's HE LAUGHS LAST, which B.E. cowrote w/ Richard Quine & directed! A Technicolor, Runyonesque Mafia comedy! m.ok.ru/video/127779...

It's cute how when Keanu Reeves said no to the godawful SPEED 2 it changed Sandra Bullock's character from a sweet girl dating Reeves to this chick who just likes dating cops.

This new MUMMY nonsense can't be serious.

Obscure YT of the day: The fourth in a Chinese action-comedy series, the prequel DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 1900 is worth checking out to non-fans because Chow Yun-Fat & John Cusack(!) are in it! youtu.be/uOnXxpOKLK0?...

Obscure YT of the day: The fourth in a Chinese action-comedy series, the prequel DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 1900 is worth checking out to non-fans because Chow Yun-Fat & John Cusack(!) are in it! youtu.be/uOnXxpOKLK0?...

I just bought the Chinese film DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 1900 because it has Chow Yun Fat AND John Cusack(!) in support. I mean, one of us had too, yes? Tariffs couldn't stop me!

John Cusack actually made a pretty interesting film in China (!) in 2024! I talk about it and his curious career turn in an article you can read for free! (All my stuff you can read for free, actually) tremblesighwonder.com/2024/11/01/a...

@danielkraus.com & Michael Almereyda have written my two favorite books of 2026 so far, good show, lads:

Obscure YT of the day: an airline disaster movie focused more on the air traffic controllers: 1979's CRISIS IN MID-AIR, w/ George Peppard (A-Team!), Karen Grassle (Little House!), Fabian, Martin Milner, Greg Morris & more! From the director of LADY IN A CAGE! m.ok.ru/video/681030...

A reminder Tremble...Sigh...Wonder...is the site to go to if you want thorough, incisive, entertaining film commentary and research... for films made between 1977-1981, anyway! 😬

I finally saw Hamnet. It's pretty good, not bad. The battle was joined over this?🤷

Nathan Lane & Laurie Metcalf in 20 minutes

Took the boy to see a seminal work.

Obscure Easter movie: Solid Italian director Damiano Damiani made THE INQUIRY (1986) which treats the rising of Christ like a detective mystery, with Keith Carradine investigating; Harvey Keitel is Pontius Pilate! Lina Sastri & Phyllis Logan costar. m.ok.ru/video/729788...

Obscure YT of the day: Robert De Niro's first lead in SAM'S SONG (1969) an indie New York/Long Island flick in which he plays a filmmaker alongside Jennifer Warren (NIGHT MOVES). youtu.be/QBmCTfYu9ag?...

Deneuve goes screwball: cinema doesn't get much more European than Yves Montand clocking Catherine Deneuve with a pineapple in LE SAUVAGE. The first in a series of looks back at classic European commercial cinema by yours truly! tremblesighwonder.com/2026/04/04/d...

Obscure Mike Figgis of the day: The director of STORMY MONDAY, INTERNAL AFFAIRS & LEAVING LAS VEGAS made the moody murder story SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF in 2012. Sebastian Koch, Lotte Verbeek, Emilia Fox & Julian Sands star. m.ok.ru/video/373359...

On August 8th 1986, the legendary day ONE CRAZY SUMMER, TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE and A FINE MESS opened, New York filmgoers had choices!

Obscure YT of the day: Ben Stiller made a short film at 20, THE HUSTLER OF MONEY, a bowling parody of THE COLOR OF MONEY w John Mahoney (SAY ANYTHING) in the Newman role. It later aired on SNL in 1987. youtu.be/aVk5Se6gVTE?...

Shh, I snuck a camera into the theater when MOMA was premiering Bogdanovich's SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS in 2022.

In 1925, the week THE GOLD RUSH came out, New Yorkers had some options, including "the screen's most popular comedian", Constance Talmadge & "Lubitsch's Parisian Romance"!

It's been a busy year and a half for me. All four books I've tracked down materials for, edited, and wrote intros and did introductions for. Still to come in 2026: Lizzie Borden, Alex Cox & Rudy Wurlitzer, Steven De Souza and my book on Peter Bogdanovich.

Obscure YT of the day: Roger Spottiswoode (UNDER FIRE, TOMORROW NEVER DIES) directs THIRD-DEGREE BURN (89) a sultry noir w/ Virginia Madsen (THE HOT SPOT), Treat Williams (PRINCE OF THE CITY) & Richard Masur (SHOOT TO KILL). youtu.be/w7ws__2f1mE?...

In March 1959, when SOME LIKE IT HOT opened in NYC, moviegoers had choices!

Amazon & SPB pages for Jim McBride's Lost Screenplays of the 1970s (edited by me with an intro/interview with JM) now live (other sites too, no doubt): shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... www.amazon.com/Gone-Beaver-...

New Podcast just dropped with I and Jim McBride discussing our new book of his unproduced screenplays LOST SCREENPLAYS OF THE 1970s: open.spotify.com/episode/6amS...

Obscure YT of the day: Airforce drama I WANTED WINGS (1941) got an Oscar for FX! It stars Ray Milland, William Holden, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore & introduces Veronica Lake! Directed by Mitchell Leisen (EASY LIVING). youtu.be/IzLKJ4m-lLg?...

Not a fan of Hostel, Saw, torture-porn or any of that, but have to say PRETTY LETHAL is pretty good, the film humanist & lacking cruelty despite so much gore. The ballerina gimmick is goofy & hilarious and effective, I was enjoying it throughout. Uma Thurman has fun. Recommended.

In case you're wondering what photoplays were running on May 2nd, 1941, when CITIZEN KANE opened in NYC

The Deuce didn't shut down for no snowstorm!

In November 1949, when SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON opened in NYC, moviegoers had choices!

Humble Bundle is offering an amazing (legit) offer of getting PDFs of ALL 43 of Fantagraphics Peanuts books for like 40 bucks (you decide what to give as it is charity-based, I did give a bit more). This has all the Complete Peanuts books, the Peanuts Every Sunday, etc...just giving a heads up

When The Beatles' HELP opened on August 27th, 1965, there were a lot of pretty awesome movie choices!

Nice haul of out of circulation titles on DVD today. 3 unseen Martin Donovan joints!

This book is great! Coming from SPB: Part dossier, part time capsule — Michael Almereyda's WRITINGS AND RELICS: 1990–1995 captures downtown NYC's indie film underground. Fisher-Price cameras, David Lynch, vampire lore, &films that almost were. Creative survival at the margins.

Obscure James Caan of the day: 1981's BOLERO (not Bo Derek flick), an epic 3-hour multi-generational story of music from Claude LeLouch (A MAN & A WOMAN)! Caan, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski, Robert Hossein, Fanny Ardant costar w/ Sharon Stone showing up. m.ok.ru/video/997667...

Obscure YT of the day: A dead nephew calls a woman, & each time she gets a call, a family member dies! WHEN MICHAEL CALLS (1972)! A-list cast: Michael Douglas, Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley! Directed by Phillip Leacock (THE WAR LOVER). youtu.be/8xhMFy06LHY?...

My new project out March 30th from Sticking Place.

“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.” My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less. stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...