Although it deals with Linklater's film, this article contains comments by
people who also knew Welles.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/my-life-with-orso\
n-welles-1780178.html

Tony W.

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.

Some articles:

Alexis Tioseco, 1981-2009:

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/alexis-tioseco-1981-2009.html

Tributes to Alexis:

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/piecing-together-shattered-mirror.ht\
ml

Up (Peter Doctor and Bob Peterson):

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/08/up-peter-doctor-bob-peterson-2009.ht\
ml

District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post.html

Bruno (Larry Charles)

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/bruno-larry-charles-2009.html

Public Enemies (Michael Mann):

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/public-enemies-michael-mann-2009.htm\
l

Buhay Ko, Hawak Mo (My Life in Your Hands, Ronnie Rickets)

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/08/ronnie-rickett-for-national-artist.h\
tml

Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw (You are All I Need, Joyce Bernal)

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/08/joyce-bernal-for-national-artist.htm\
l

Tadhana (Nonoy Marcelo)

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/08/nonoy-marcelo-for-national-artist.ht\
ml

Critic After Dark: a Review of Philippine Cinema

http://www.bigozine2.com/theshop/books/NVcritic.html

A blog:

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ray-barrett-craggyfaced-star-of-mog\
ul-and-the-troubleshooters-1786971.html

Although unknown to most in the US, this Australian actor appeared in UK TV
series such as EMERGENCY WARD 10, MOGUL, THE TROUBLESHOOTERS as well as films
such as THE SUNDOWNERS and DON'S PARTY.

Tony W.

UK film and TV writer, creator of CARS, EDGE OF DARKNESS, and writer of the
original ITALIAN JOB has nor left us.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/troy-kennedy-martin-innovative-writ\
er-who-created-z-cars-and-wrote-edge-of-darkness-and-the-italian-job-1788520.htm\
l

Tony W.

I wanted to share some thoughts on POLLY PERVERSE STRIKES AGAIN!, directed by a
fellow a_film_byer, Dan Sallitt:

http://oleszczyk.blogspot.com/2009/09/polly-perverse-strikes-again-1986.html

Enjoy!--
--Michal

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 ZAPATA!
and BYE BYE BRAVERMAN.

Tony W.

detective story,lawman,the valachi papers,the unforgiven,three brave men,yep yep
yep




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From: Crescent9 <peckinpah20012000@...>
To: a_film_by@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, October 21, 2009 10:56:54 AM
Subject: [a_film_by] DR. NO IS DEAD


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 ZAPATA!
and BYE BYE BRAVERMAN.

Tony W.







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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 and Tigers Competitors in Vancouver Film Festival:

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/10/jang-kun-jaes-eighteen-wins-dragons-\
and.html

Vancouver Film Festival; Kore-eda's "Air Doll;" Bong Joon Ho's "Mother."

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/10/vancouver-international-film-festiva\
l.html

Bong Joon Ho's "Barking Dogs Never Bite;" Park Chan Wook's Oldboy; Im Kwon
Taek's Beyond the Years.

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/10/vancouver-international-film-festiva\
l.html

Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds;" Bigelow's "Hurt Locker;" Shane Acker's "9"

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/inglourious-basterds-hurt-locker-9.h\
tml

Toby Wilkins' "Grudge 3"

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/grudge-3-toby-wilkins-2009.html

Carlos J. Caparas' National Artist Award can't be undone, says Solicitor General

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2009/09/national-artist-awards-cant-be-undon\
e.html

  Critic After Dark: a Review of Philippine Cinema


http://www.bigozine2.com/theshop/books/NVcritic.html


A blog:


http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/

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 Marshall's
"The Perils of Pauline" (1947) makes for a pleasant enough distraction.

In a movie that's so packed with wonderful entertainers (you cannot beat the
Sturgesian duo of Betty Hutton and Bill Demarest, with Constance Collier as a
bonus) one painfully misses a single thing: a leading man to match Hutton. Maybe
not to match her folly (you'd need Eddie Bracken for that, no less), but at
least her energy. Alas, John Lund comes off as a gravely impaired bore: a
terminal square. Small wonder he later on played George Kittridge in the musical
remake of "The Philadelphia Story" (1940).

Hutton was a great comedienne; nowadays only Anna Faris is a proud heiress to
her reckless brand of self-mocking irony and physical bravado. When her
character comes up with an idea, all that's missing is a big light bulb
springing up over Hutton's head – she's cartoonish to the point of rapture, and
it comes as sort of a shock when she falls off a rope near the end and actually
gets hurt. Shouldn't she bounce off the stage and keep on prancing around…?

By the way: any other George Marhsall movies worth recommending? I think the
only other one I saw was "Destry Rides Again" (1979), while his IMdB filmography
lists no lest than 177 movies & TV shows episodes!

--Michal

* 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
:-)

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "michal.oleszczyk82" <michal.oleszczyk@...>
wrote:

"...any other George Marhsall movies worth recommending?"

I liked some of Marshall's genre comedies: "The Ghost Breakers" (1940),
"Murder, He Says" (1945), "The Gazebo" (1959), all comedy Thrillers; "Advance to
the Rear" (1964) another Western comedy.

His W.C. Fields vehicle "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" (1939)is pretty good,
and his straight forward crime movies "Nancy Steele Is Missing!" (1937)and "The
Blue Dahlia" (1946) with an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler are worth
seeing.

Richcard

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "michal.oleszczyk82" <michal.oleszczyk@...>
wrote:
>
> 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
Marshall's "The Perils of Pauline" (1947) makes for a pleasant enough
distraction.
>
> In a movie that's so packed with wonderful entertainers (you cannot beat the
Sturgesian duo of Betty Hutton and Bill Demarest, with Constance Collier as a
bonus) one painfully misses a single thing: a leading man to match Hutton. Maybe
not to match her folly (you'd need Eddie Bracken for that, no less), but at
least her energy. Alas, John Lund comes off as a gravely impaired bore: a
terminal square. Small wonder he later on played George Kittridge in the musical
remake of "The Philadelphia Story" (1940).
>
> Hutton was a great comedienne; nowadays only Anna Faris is a proud heiress to
her reckless brand of self-mocking irony and physical bravado. When her
character comes up with an idea, all that's missing is a big light bulb
springing up over Hutton's head – she's cartoonish to the point of rapture, and
it comes as sort of a shock when she falls off a rope near the end and actually
gets hurt. Shouldn't she bounce off the stage and keep on prancing around…?
>
> By the way: any other George Marhsall movies worth recommending? I think the
only other one I saw was "Destry Rides Again" (1979), while his IMdB filmography
lists no lest than 177 movies & TV shows episodes!
>
> --Michal

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 effectiveness
in the same director's THE MATING SEASON as Thelma Ritter's son.  He's not
necessarily as boring as you say, though I haven't seen PERILS OF PAULINE (have
a tape of it here somewhere and you have motivated me to find and watch it).

You should check out Marshall's MY FRIEND IRMA--the movie debut of
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis,also with luscious Diana Lynn and as the eponymous
character Marie Wilson.  Here, John Lund plays a flavorful part as Irma's
sharpie boyfriend, always looking for an angle.

Marshall is greatly esteemed as a comedy director--that mostly holds
though THE BLUE DAHLIA, for example, shows he had some range (the titles already
passed along are mostly pretty good ones I would support).  So, for example,
among his comedy Westerns, there are also some serious ones, like PILLARS OF THE
SKY (1956), which might actually be my favorite of his films, a very unusual
cavalry/Indian film with an unexpected theological theme.

Of the comedy Westerns, I think DESTRY RIDES AGAIN is very overrated and prefer
Marshall's own remake DESTRY (1955) with Audie Murphy and Mari Blanchard in the
Stewart and Dietrich roles.  The best of the comedy Westerns for me is THE
SHEEPMAN (1958) with Glenn Ford and Shirley MacLaine.  Only NORTH TO ALASKA
(Hathaway) is a better comedy Western than this one.

Blake Lucas
>

He was also so dreary in THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES.

Tony Williams

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "lukethedealer12" <lukethedealer@...> wrote:
Alas, John Lund comes off as a gravely impaired bore: a terminal square. Small
wonder he later on played George Kittridge in the musical remake of "The
Philadelphia Story" (1940).
> Blake Lucas

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
inventive ideas.

Mike Grost

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 not saying he's a favorite of mine; he's good enough in some
things, maybe a little better in a few others, and as boring as you and Michal
suggest at times.

THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES had Gail Russell--who can look at anyone else when
she's around?  And even if she weren't there, John Lund could never be more than
a run of the mill straight man to Edward G. Robinson.
I haven't seen that John Farrow movie in a long time, though remember liking it
very much and would name it as one my favorite Farrows.

One more word on George Marshall, and his predilection for comedy.
It perhaps could be described as more than that in his case.  Without making
claims he is a great director--I like him well enough, though
within reason, as he can seem prosaic and oonventional--he does seem to have a
genuine interest in finding and exploring the playful side of cinema.  It's
shown well, for example, in his two musical Westerns of the mid-50s.  THE SECOND
GREATEST SEX is based on LYSISTRATA, and has a pleasingly self-conscious aura
given the source, while in RED GARTERS,
he purposely used minimalist sets with some daring, playing up the artificiality
of the project for all it is worth.

I also have to mention one gag in ADVANCE TO THE REAR that is so great it is
worth the movie.  Confederate spy Stella Stevens tries to escape on a barge but
as she starts to pole out into the water, the whole thing turns out to be full
of holes and sinks beneath her.  As filmed in elegant long shot by Marshall and
played by the gifted comedienne Stevens this was worthy of Buster Keaton, and
might remind someone of him, as it did me.

Blake


--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "Crescent9" <peckinpah20012000@...> wrote:
>
> He was also so dreary in THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES.
>
> Tony Williams
>
> --- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "lukethedealer12" <lukethedealer@> wrote:
> Alas, John Lund comes off as a gravely impaired bore: a terminal square. Small
wonder he later on played George Kittridge in the musical remake of "The
Philadelphia Story" (1940).
> > Blake Lucas
>

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "lukethedealer12" <lukethedealer@...> wrote:
>
"...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,
though remember liking it very much and would name it as one my favorite
Farrows."

Sam Fuller was going to make his version of the Woolrich novel with Martin
Scorsese as producer but his stroke put an end to that project alas. Farrow did
a fine job in his own right; the look of the whole movie, interiors and
exteriors, was somehow both dream-like and sharply realistic at the same time.

Richard

I think I've cut this one right and Lund is so dreary in relation to Gail
Russell.

Tony W.

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "lukethedealer12" <lukethedealer@...> wrote:
>
>
> THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES had Gail Russell--who can look at anyone else
when she's around?  And even if she weren't there, John Lund could never be more
than a run of the mill straight man to Edward G. Robinson.>

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
THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES on top of my list).

For the record: I watched Wilder's A FOREIGN AFFAIR yesterda and it redeemed
John Lund for me. I have THE MATING SEASON on DVD, I'll watch that and make it a
dealbraker.

--Michal

Sadly, I have no way of watching DESIRE ME, but I wanted to ask if any of
a_film_by'ers had a chance to see it? If so, whose hand is most visible in it:
Cukor's...? LeRoy's...? Conway's...?

I would love to read any recollections of this unattainable non-auteur (?)
curiosity item -- if the happy few are willing to share them.

--Michal

I work as a publicist for somebody relatively famous (at least by association,
since her husband of 50 years is showbiz-political legend), who now produces
documentaries, including one narrated by Danny Glover. I want to update her CV
on IMDB (and Danny Glover's), so I can mention the films she has made as a
producer, but I have not the slightest idea of how to go about doing so. If
somebody can enlighten me, I would be very grateful.

>I work as a publicist for somebody relatively famous (at least by
>association, since her husband of 50 years is showbiz-political legend),
>who now produces documentaries, including one narrated by Danny Glover. I
>want to update her CV on IMDB (and Danny Glover's), so I can mention the
>films she has made as a producer, but I have not the slightest idea of how
>to go about doing so. If somebody can enlighten me, I would be very
>grateful.
>

It's very easy. Just click on the UPDATE button at the bottom of the page
and away you'll go. It takes some time for the new information to show up,
but it's all explained very carefully in the instructions.

-Bilge

That Tom Cruise and John Travolta are going to star in a remake of "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is wrong on so many levels that I don't even know
where to begin...they are both Scientology cult loyalists, they are both
fulsomely grinning closet queens, they are both too old for either role, and
would be completely wrong for either part in any year, John Travolta should
never, ever do a Western, the original film is fine as it is, that this is
looking to shape up as unintentionally morbid camp on the order of "Grey
Gardens," and so forth and so on.

Sorry, I know we believe in the ability of autuers to transform any dross into
gold, but I can't imagine a director alive who could salvage this.

Just saw Morris Engle's 'Little Fugitive" and kind of loved it. Anyone care to
comment - it needs a rediscovery and I don't quite think it's a great film.

"That's (Hollywood) Entertainment"!

Tony W.

--- In a_film_by@yahoogroups.com, "Rick S" <rick.segreda@...> wrote:
>
> That Tom Cruise and John Travolta are going to star in a remake of "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is wrong on so many levels that I don't even know
where to begin...they are both Scientology cult loyalists, they are both
fulsomely grinning closet queens, they are both too old for either role, and
would be completely wrong for either part in any year, John Travolta should
never, ever do a Western, the original film is fine as it is, that this is
looking to shape up as unintentionally morbid camp on the order of "Grey
Gardens," and so forth and so on.
>
> Sorry, I know we believe in the ability of autuers to transform any dross into
gold, but I can't imagine a director alive who could salvage this.
>

Although probably best known to US viewers as "The Equalizer", Woodward also had
a distinguished film and television career. The former involved THE WICKER MAN,
BREAKER MORANT and the latter as CALLAN. He also starred in a 6 part BBC TV
series 1990 (1977) that has never been repeated since it anticipated the
dystopian world of Britain's New Labour. Like Trevor Griffith's BILL BRAND
(1977) and Loach-Garnett's DAYS OF HOPE (1974), this series has never been
repeated on TV nor available on DVD due to its damning contemporary indictment
of a repressive England. Woodward distinguished himself in the role of an
investigative journalist who becomes a "non-person" in one episode.

Tony Williams

Woodward is probably best known to US audiences for his role as the captain in
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" TV series.

Richard M

Saw his unworthy obit in the LA Times. He deserved better, both from the Times
and from the industry.

It's pretty unlikely we'll ever see a Wendkos retrospective even though he made
some distinctive pictures in several genres, including his first scope GIDGET
movie. His western THE FACE OF A FUGITIVE has a memorable performance from Fred
McMurray. Among his TV movies the two about a psychic detective played by Louis
Jordan are outstanding as is "Haunts of the Very Rich." The last theatrical
feature of his that I can think off hand, "The Mephisto Waltz," was also pretty
good though I haven't seen it in well over 30 years.

Richard M

james coburn was in face of a fugitive




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From: tharpa2002 <tharpa2002@...>
To: a_film_by@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 7:36:13 PM
Subject: [a_film_by] Paul Wendkos RIP


Saw his unworthy obit in the LA Times. He deserved better, both from the Times
and from the industry.

It's pretty unlikely we'll ever see a Wendkos retrospective even though he made
some distinctive pictures in several genres, including his first scope GIDGET
movie. His western THE FACE OF A FUGITIVE has a memorable performance from Fred
McMurray. Among his TV movies the two about a psychic detective played by Louis
Jordan are outstanding as is "Haunts of the Very Rich." The last theatrical
feature of his that I can think off hand, "The Mephisto Waltz," was also pretty
good though I haven't seen it in well over 30 years.

Richard M







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that was edward mulhare.edward woodward was in the wicker man and played an
agent on a tv series but mulhare was in the tv version of ghost




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From: tharpa2002 <tharpa2002@...>
To: a_film_by@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 7:20:32 PM
Subject: [a_film_by] Re: Edward Woodward (1930-2009)


Woodward is probably best known to US audiences for his role as the captain in
"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" TV series.

Richard M







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