I've never been there but have signed the petition in solidarity from the land of BLACK ROCK where Harry Potter and Transformers fill all multiplex screens. ...
Thanks to Jed Rapfogel for his vastly encouraging report. Also, my apologies for raising - however tangentially - the specter of print quality in the first...
Often I read the posts for general or specific information and I know I can access them at a later date and I don't re^ply because I don't have any pertinent...
Singer who starred in THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN and PAINT YOUR WAGO who late went on to be an accomplished character actor in FARGO, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, and...
UCLA Library Management, behind closed doors and without consultation with the UCLA community has decided to close its Arts Library, potentially as soon as...
Will thus era of cultural vandalism never end? We signed petitions on wellesnet.com. to save the last remaining building of Orson Welles's own school to no...
A friend asked me if I heard or read about a company that censured existing movies and proposed a g rated version (without four letter words for ex) to their...
A few years back there were a lot of DVD rent-by-mail companies in the US that created edited versions of most widely released movies, some would even ...
There is a Doc in the Toronto Film Festival this year about this very subject entitled Clean Flix. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
well, the Brazilian distributor which released Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween has just done that in the official theater release, cutting all of 26 minutes...
Well known for his role as Charlie Endell in the early 70s ITV series BUDGIE starring Adam Faith, he has now left us to join Keith Waterhouse. Tony W....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ray-barrett-craggyfaced-star-of-mogul-and-the-troubleshooters-1786971.html Although unknown to most in the US,...
Joseph Wiseman (1918-2009) has left us, an actor who preferred to be remembered for stage rather than screen work but he left other credits such as VIVA...
Some articles: Jang Kun Jae's "Eighteen," Ralston's Jover's "Bakal Boys" http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/10/cinemanila-2009-final-weekend.html Dragons...
Much more than just a poor man's "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) – but still not a great musical about the silent-to-sound Hollywood transition – George...
* Make that "1939" for "Destry"... I know nothing about any revisionist version of it directed by Arthur Penn in 1979, starring Mark Hamill and Candice Bergen...
... "...any other George Marhsall movies worth recommending?" I liked some of Marshall's genre comedies: "The Ghost Breakers" (1940), "Murder, He Says" (1945),...
... I'm fairly certain that Mitchell Leisen, no less, discovered John Lund who makes his debut in Leisen's TO EACH HIS OWN and also appears with fair...
He was also so dreary in THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES. Tony Williams ... Alas, John Lund comes off as a gravely impaired bore: a terminal square. Small wonder...
Marshall's TRUE TO LIFE is an inventive comedy, about radio script writers. And HOLD THAT COED is one of those campus football comedies, also with some...
Hey, Tony, the way you cut this (below), it looked like I wrote it. But I defended Lund (for some films). It was Michal who called him boring. Mind you, I'm...
... "...THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES had Gail Russell--who can look at anyone else when she's around?...I haven't seen that John Farrow movie in a long time,...
Thanks guys for all the recommendations: lots to look for, lots to track down. I'll post something if I can get a hold of any of the titles you mentioned (with...