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. ...
... performance. ... overview ... Thanks, Richard and Tony (and Mike--your detailed observations on Mulligan in your website are much appreciated). Just to...
He's right up there with Kazan, Lumet, and Scorsese as one of the masters of the Method in the movies, and here's hoping that Criterion or somebody will...
... "...Just to note Richard that I did include THE OTHER and in truth consider it one of Mulligan's most beautifully realized films and especially rich in his...
... horror ... very ... context of ... THE ... Yes, light years beyond any of those in every respect. I really can't think of anyone making anything like this...
... know if ... he ... category ... contending ... frivolous to ... ever be ... to take ... thought ... Though I wouldn't have predicted the question and don't...
... I can help out here, as I saved Sarris's ten-best lists between 1966 and 1981. 1967 - UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE is an honorable mention 1968 - I can't find THE...
... matter). In a collection of his ten-best lists proper at http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/sarris.html, "The Man in the Moon" seems to be the...
... Sorry, I mixed up my url's. The above should be http://www.observer.com/node/41255 and the 10-best lists link was undone by a comma. Should be: ...
Andrew Sarris' writings on Mulligan are probably not the Last Word. But as Sarris himself so memorably put it, they were intended to be "the first step, and...
... I don't think you can compare the two, frankly. There's a world of difference between a filmmaker whose work is on the verge of being forgotten and is then...
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