Jim Lane's Cinedrome

It’s that time of year again, and I depart once more from my focus on Golden Age Hollywood to share my story “The Sensible Christmas Wish”, first published here in 2016 about this time.

With the Holiday Season upon us once again, I want to pause and pay tribute to a particular Christmas movie, one of the least known and one of the best.

It occurred to me that I ended my last post with a bit of a tease, asking Cinedrome readers how many people they could identify in the Oscar “reunion” photo from the 75th Academy Awards ceremony on March 23, 2003.

On March 3, 2017, Claude Jarman Jr. welcomed my friend Richard Glazier and me into his beautiful hillside home in Kentfield, Marin County, Calif., 17 miles north of San Francisco.

I was dismayed and saddened by the passing of Claude Jarman Jr. last week.

Day 1 — Continued So…Where was I?

Once again the Picture Show opened with a serial, with its once-weekly episodes (twelve of them this time) parceled out among the four days of the convention.

First, before I launch into my annual recap of this year’s Columbus Moving Picture Show, a heads-up and an apology.

We’re undergoing some major home renovations here at Cinedrome, so my creation and development of new posts has been on a back burner for a while.

Introduction At the moment, I’m in rehearsals for a stage production of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s 1813 romantic comedy of manners chronicling the romantic vicissitudes of five English sisters.