CMBA Presents: Cry Me a River: Tearjerkers Blogathon

CMBA Presents Cry Me a River: Tearjerkers Blogathon

 

May 12-16, 2025

 

Spring is here! That means it’s time for some…. tears? This year's theme for the CMBA Spring Blogathon is Cry Me a River: Tearjerkers. It will happen the week of May 12-16, 2025.

You might want to buy a box of tissues, or grab your favorite handkerchief, and use ink that won’t run when you cry over your notepad, because this theme will have us watching emotional, heartbreaking, tragic and moving films; melodramas, sob stories and weepies.

This event is for CMBA members only. Your main film topic should be from 1980 or earlier although you can reference, discuss and compare newer films to it. No duplicate topics please! There are tons of possibilities across eras, nations and genres. Your topic choices will be accepted in the order we receive them. You might even include a second choice when you send in your topic. Please send in your topic by May 11.

Use this form to submit your topic choice, blog name and preferred date for posting, if any. 

Please use one of the banners in this post, put it on your blog, and use it for promo wherever you have social media.

We’re really looking forward to another great blogathon!

May 12, 2025

• Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More: Christine (1958) 
• Rick's Real/Reel Life: Dark Victory (1939)
• Silverscreenmodes: Random Harvest (1942)
• A Person in the Dark: All of Me (1984) 
• Hometowns to Hollywood: On Borrowed Time 1939

May 13, 2025

• Second Sight Cinema: Imitation of Life (1959)
• Classic Film And TV Corner: The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946) 
• Shadows and Satin: Brief Encounter (1954)
  

May 14, 2025 

• Cinematic Scribblings: Sunflower (1970)
• Crítica Retrô: The Red Kimona (1925) 
• Speakeasy: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

May 15, 2025 

• Once Upon a Screen: Stella Dallas (1937)
• Another Old Movie Blog: Heat Lightning (1934)
• Silent Cinema School: Way Down East (1920)
  

May 16, 2025

• Nitrate Glow: Ikiru (1952)
• Whimsically Classic: The Way We Were (1973)
• In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood: Penny Serenade (1941)
• The Last Drive In: Now, Voyager 1942 & Baghdad Cafe (1987)
• A Vintage Nerd: Classic Cinema Spotlight: Terms of Endearment (1983)
  

 

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CMBA Profile: Nuclear Theater

The CMBA is excited to feature our newest member, James Oliphant of Nuclear Theater, as this month's Member Profile. 

Why do you blog?

It’s a way to combine what I do for a living with what I love. I enjoy writing about films

but not necessarily as a critic or a scholar. It’s more in terms of my personal relationship

to the material – or its connection to history – or both.

Besides classic movie blogging, what are some of your other passions?

I like to write fiction, but I never finish anything. I like good whiskey when I can afford it.

We have a dog named Steve McQueen.

If you could program a perfect day of classic movies for TCM, what would be the seven films on your schedule?

Wow, this is such a great question. I guess it depends if I am doing it just for me or trying to entertain as many viewers as possible.

Let’s go with: (All pre-1967)

1. The Philadelphia Story

2. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

3. The Sea Hawk

4. Trouble in Paradise

5. The Train

6. Sweet Smell of Success

7. In the Heat of the Night

What is a classic movie that you love, but most people don't know about - and what do you love about it?

This is a tougher question with this audience because people here know so much.

My answer is One, Two, Three directed by Billy Wilder and starring James Cagney. The

film satirizes the Cold War and American consumerism and the dialogue is rat-a-tat-tat.

What is something that most people don't know about you?

My great-great-grandfather was one of the American West’s first photographers.

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We thank James for participating in our Q&A profile and allowing us to get to know him better. Be sure to visit his work at Nuclear Theater.

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