Rick Wiggins

Poet. Broadcaster. Voice actor. Oxfordian. Golden Age film/music/literature scholar. First gen punk. Francophile. Italophile. Philecabinet.

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Sydney Greenstreet did not win an Oscar for The Maltese Falcon. He was nominated. Donald Crisp won for How Green Was My Valley. Greenstreet never won an Academy Award.

[blaire erskine @blaireerskine]

is this what you’re fighting for????

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

(apologies for the uneven lighting)

[Savannah @garbo__talks]

I don’t need a “2020 in film” email from Letterboxd to tell me that my most watched actor from last year was either Sylvia Sidney or Fredric March and my most watched director either Fritz Lang or Ernst Lubitsch.

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

For every Cagney or Astaire there's a hundred unsavory characters and ugly relationship histories behind Hollywood legends. I can separate personal weakness from work.

But mediocre actors pushing idiotic agendas that undermine progress taints the often great films they're in.

[The Tinseltown Twins @TinseltownTwins]

Who is an actor or director you dislike not for any career or talent reasons, but because of something in their personal lives? Both of our answer is Tom Neal. #ClassicMovieQuestionOfTheDay

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Lauren Boebert is clearly onto something.

Sorry..."on", not "onto".

[Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert]

As small businesses and families wait for COVID-19 relief, Democrats in the House will spend their week trying to oust a man from the Presidency who will be leaving in nine days anyway.

They’ll literally do anything to avoid helping the American people.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Taylor looked great in Night of the Hunter. Montgomery lent a breezy insouciance to the anti-Semitic murderer in Crossfire. Mitchum steals every scene in Here Comes Mr. Jordan. But Ryan was woefully miscast in Camille.

Now do the one about fruit.

[The Tinseltown Twins @TinseltownTwins]

Instead of the battle of the Chrises, we’re doing the battle of the Roberts. Who is your favorite out of these four Roberts: Taylor, Montgomery, Ryan, or Mitchum? Bianca picks Robert Ryan and Virginia picks Robert Montgomery. #ClassicMovieQuestionOfTheDay

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

I just hope he doesn't use one of the titles I'm considering for my Trump biography:

Gone With the Windbag
Moby Dickhead
The Great Fatsby

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Anyone have a suggestion for the title of the book that Trump will no doubt “write?"

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Colman:
The Light That Failed
Random Harvest
A Double Life

Sanders:
The Black Swan
The Picture of Dorian Gray
All About Eve

[Classic Film TV Cafe @classic_film]

It's a twofer Monday! What are your favorite movies starring Ronald Colman or George Sanders? Please list no more than 3 per actor; less is fine.

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

With many defective people it's difficult to see at a glance just how broken inside they are. Occasionally, though...

[Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert]

Let me tell you why I WILL carry my Glock to Congress.

Government does NOT get to tell me or my constituents how we are allowed to keep our families safe.

I promise to always stand strong for our 2nd Amendment rights.

https://t.co/E75tYpdN4B

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Pettin' in the Park from Golddiggers of 1933

[P.M.Bryant @pmbryant]

@TinseltownTwins Perhaps “Forgotten Man” from Gold Diggers of 1933, but also perhaps “We’re in the Money” from the same film, or perhaps the “42nd Street” finale, or ...?

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Allow me:

Network
Last Picture Show
Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
Bound for Glory
Eraserhead
Alien
Last Tango
Apocalypse Now
Mean Streets
Godfather II
In the Realm of the Senses
Cries and Whispers
Life of Brian
Amarcord

Every decade has its "garbage". The 70s had Star Wars.

[ShakerMaker #FBPE @ShakerMaker2]

@bazinganed6 @classic_film Watch some of the greatest films ever made, from the seventies with no effects, practical or otherwise.
Chinatown
Godfather
French Connection
Marathon Man
Deliverance
One Flew Iver the Cuckoo's Nest
Scarecrow
Serpico
Dirty Harry
Manhattan..
I could go on...

[blaire erskine @blaireerskine]

Wow Ted Cruz’s daughter just posted this on Instagram

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Fargo is a masterpiece by the most gifted screenwriters of the last thirty years. Jackie Brown is a Quentin Tarantino movie. The question answers itself. Can we do one that's a little harder?

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Teacher's Pet
School's Out
Love Business

(I'm allowing myself a 3-fer since they combine for less than the running time of a feature.)

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

#1 - Frank Miller and Tim Sale
#2 - Tim Sale and Frank Miller

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Either Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hudsucker Proxy or Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs. Parker & the Vicious Circle. Or, wait, it might be Jennifer Jason Leigh in Georgia.

Also, Robin Williams in, y'know, that otherwise good movie with Robin Williams in it.

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

My personal favorite war film.

[The Tinseltown Twins @TinseltownTwins]

While the Oscars ignored A Walk in the Sun (1945), it was nominated for "Best Film from Any Source" at the BAFTA Awards and was picked as one of the top 10 films of the year by the National Board of Review. #VirginiasMovieOfTheDay

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

Two Seconds (1932)

Odd that even within the lobby card set only the title card features the "2 Seconds" variation. All other paper I'm familiar with spells out the word. When the left Warner doesn't know what the right First National is doing.

[The Tinseltown Twins @TinseltownTwins]

What is your favorite movie beginning with the word/number “Two”? Bianca’s is Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) and Virginia’s is Two Way Stretch (1960). #ClassicMovieQuestionOfTheDay

[Rick Wiggins @RickWiggins]

My hope for 2021 is that we don't lose four years of momentum building walls, banning Muslims, caging children, gassing BLM, blaming Antifa. It's our patriotic Christian duty to keep the terrorists out of America. All my friends agree.