- Home →
- Casablanca
The Best Romance Movies of the 21st Century, from ‘High Fidelity’ to ‘Carol’
What would movies be about if not for love? Since well before the days of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca,” romance has driven countless classic stories, setting up some of the highest highs in cinematic history to follow. Be it Cary Grant and Grace Kelly seeing stars in “To Catch a Thief” or […]
Continue readingCasablanca: The Perfect Romance Movie for People Who Hate Love Stories
Widely considered one of the greatest films ever made, and once again appearing on Sight & Sound’s recent Greatest Films of All Time list, the 1942 romantic drama Casablanca continues to stand the test of time. If you aren’t a fan of the romance genre, from the outside looking in it could appear that this […]
Continue readingWhat Happened to the Casablanca Sequel Warner Bros. Wanted to Make?
Casablanca is not the kind of movie one would think spawns a franchise, or even a sequel, and why would you? After all, the film ends with Rick Blaine (Humphery Bogart) forcing Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) to get on a plane and leave him so she can avoid being captured by the Nazis. The narrative […]
Continue readingHumphrey Bogart Would Have Rather ‘Dug Ditches’ Than Taken His Career To TV
Humphrey Bogart was not one to mince words. He was a plain-spoken man who excelled at playing plain-spoken characters. When he deigned to opine on a particular subject, you could be absolutely certain that you were getting Bogie’s unvarnished take. So when the mega-star of “The Maltese Falcon,” “Casablanca” and “The Big Sleep” unloaded on […]
Continue readingOne Film Never Failed To Bring Humphrey Bogart To Tears
In the golden age of Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart epitomized the tough guy of the silver screen. He portrayed men who were uniquely American, yet rarely would be considered good role models for young patriots. Bogart was able to maintain the grizzled appearance of a cowboy even when smoking in an alabaster suit. On- and off-screen, […]
Continue readingTreasure Of The Sierra Madre Ending Explained: Can Gold Change A Man’s Soul?
Humphrey Bogart was looking for the chance to play a villain again. By 1946, he’d fully moved on from the supporting roles in gangster movies on which his career had been built, and into stardom, with “Casablanca” as a major turning point. As a major box office draw, he could choose anything to focus on […]
Continue readingOffbeat Romantic Movies That Are Highly Underrated
Maybe it’s Valentine’s Day, and you’re looking to get into the spirit of the occasion. Or maybe it’s date night, and you’re looking to take things further with someone new, or to keep that romantic spark going strong with a longtime love.Regardless, you probably have the same problem that we do. So many of us […]
Continue reading14 Middle Eastern and North African films to tempt festival directors in 2022
Cannes 2019 discoveries Mounia Meddour and Maryam Touzani are among the Mena filmmakers with works in post-production.Middle Eastern and North African cinema enjoyed a high profile on the 2021 festival scene thanks to a raft of works from the region including Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch’s Casablanca Beats, Egyptian Cannes Critics’ Week winner Feathers, Lebanese filmmaker […]
Continue reading‘Army of the Dead’ in Theaters Means Netflix and Exhibition Both Get to Win
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”The final line in “Casablanca,” with Humphrey Bogart’s Rick commenting on the marriage of convenience with French Vichy Captain Renault, might serve for theaters and Netflix. The movie that’s testing that bond is not a cinema classic; it’s Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” an […]
Continue readingFilm Score Pioneer Max Steiner Is Ripe for Rediscovery, with the Help of a New Biography
Composer Max Steiner, whose scores for “King Kong,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca” placed him in the movie-music pantheon, isn’t much discussed today. He seems to belong to that old-school, pre-synthesizer world of orchestral scoring from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.But as author Steven C. Smith points out in his engrossing new biography of […]
Continue reading