Some articles Barack Obama, Michael Crichton: http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2008/11/unlikely-candidate-wins-famous-hack.html Ramona Diaz's Imelda...
Just returned from a screening of the restored French version of LOLA MONTES at BFI Southbank. There were three moments here that I haven't seen before: 1-...
... "Just returned from a screening of the restored French version of LOLA> MONTES at BFI Southbank. There were three moments here that I haven't seen...
Does everyone know about this event? - Dan ... The King of Comedy: Jerry Lewis in Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich Saturday, November 22, 7:00 p.m. At The...
Tomorrow We Live (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1942) is a strange crime thriller, from the dawn of the film noir era. The main crooks in Tomorrow We Live are gangsters, and...
The Strange Woman (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1946) is not a film I like. A depressing look at a seriously evil femme fatale and the men she lures into murder, the film...
... we ... up ... is ... sets of ... the ... wall, ... can ... My understanding is that the opening scene of THE STRANGE WOMAN was actually directed by Douglas...
... wrote: "My understanding is that the opening scene of THE STRANGE WOMAN was actually directed by Douglas Sirk." If that's so, it's important to know...
According to Tag Gallagher's Ulmer article, Ulmer shot the opening stream scene, with his own daughter cast as the mean little girl. Hedy Lamarr demanded the...
... Hedy ... This is interesting ... I recently acquired the Ulmer Archive DVD set, which contains "The Strange Woman," but hadn't watched it yet. The lively...
Hey there, I just want to announce my new blog-a-thon, which will run from January 12-23, 2009 and will focus on the early films of Howard Hawks (somewhat...
After running the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in recent years, this distinguished lady of Roger Corman films and others, has now gone to that big B Movie set...
Very sad to hear the news. I'd just watched her the day before in the under-appreciated PRETTY POISON. And, now, Van Johnson. The remnants of old Hollywoood...
Does anyone know of a good article -- or book -- of the influence of commedia dell'arte traditions on Italian film? Also interested in the influence of other...
just read this. How sad. Great dame. I've stayed at the Beverly Garland Hotel when I've been in and out for quick interviews in places like Burbank and don't...
Best known for MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS, EXECUTIVE SUITE, and (marginally) for playing Charlton Heston's adopted mother in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, this fine actress...
... And what about AN AMERICAN IN PARIS? Apparently, Foch also did some directing. I was wondering what this trio might have had in common, and I figured it...
Just came across, in last week's Times, "Unraveling a 15th-Century Whodunit," about questions of authorship of great medieval Dutch art raised by an exhibition...
... Yeah, I always think of auteurism as trying to bring to cinema the creator-based ethos that the older art forms came by naturally. (To me, the opposite of...
... Both Tobey and William Self (the guy who put the electric blanket on the Thing encased in ice, later producer of the BATMAN TV series) told me personally...
... That jibes with the interviews that Todd McCarthy did. I'm trying to remember where I read Tobey's comment that Nyby directed. I'm thinking that it may...
... to ... thinking ... book - In FOCUS ON HOWARD HAWKS actually, in the 1970 Chicago Film Festival discussion, Hawks is asked "Did you direct parts of _The...
... There's a paragraph or two about the adaptation in an essay by Richard Hodgens in the FOCUS OF SCIENCE FICTION book titled "A Brief, Tragical History of...
... I'm actually thinking of a paraphrase or a quotation from an interview with Tobey, in which Hawks' role in the direction was minimized. I'm pretty sure...
Probably most people here are aware that he has died. Dave Kehr remembered him admiringly at davekehr.com and drew a lot of postive comments from other...
Robert Mulligan was a director I admired very much. There has long been an article on Mulligan on my web site, that tries to understand him as an auteur: ...
... of movies...." You've summed Mulligan's virtues very well Blake. To the films you mentioned let me add THE OTHER where Uta Hagen gave a fine performance. ...
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