Project Keaton

September 30, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

For the month of October, the Pictorial will be heavily focusing on the life, work and art of the legendary Buster Keaton. It felt right we should do so, given Buster’s 116th birthday on October 4th, the month-long salute to Keaton’s films on Turner Classic Movies, and some exciting new releases from Kino video. Project […]

Shameless Plug: TCM’s September Pre-Code Podcast

September 15, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

As all you readers of the Pictorial are well aware, I’m something of a Turner Classic Movies junkie… As I know many of you are too! Which is why I’m just plain tickled pink over the fact that TCM recently asked my pal Will McKinley and I to participate in their September podcast. Will lives […]

Shameless Plug: TCM's September Pre-Code Podcast

September 15, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

Pinched in the Astor Bar: Frank Sinatra

September 7, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

So once in awhile, Ol’ Blue Eyes gets under my skin and, ring-a-ding-ding, he absolutely ends up doing it his way and there’s nothing I can do-be-do-be-do about it. The Wee Small Hours and No One Cares have been regulars on my semi-new turntable– pieces of art that positively thrive in the acoustic-friendly, teensy confines […]

Hot Town, Summer in the (New York) City

September 5, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’m a Los Angeleno by birth, a Londoner by heart, and an aspiring New Yorker. Having just returned from another whirlwind trip in the City That Never Sleeps, that honeymoon glow is still warm enough to post some of my favorite street view snaps from the City that I’m falling more, all the more, head […]

We've Been Liebstered! (I didn't know what it meant either…)

August 17, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Kitty Packard Pictorial has been Liebstered! C’est a dire, we’ve been presented with the “Liebster Blog” award from one of our favorite fellow film fanatics, The Lady Eve Sidwich, the cinemaven behind The Lady Eve’s Reel Life. Take a sampling of her recent posts and you’ll see exactly why this blog stands so well […]

We’ve Been Liebstered! (I didn’t know what it meant either…)

August 17, 2011.Reading time 4 minutes.