on a side note, the great Italy-based online journal La Furia Umana announced today its next number will be dedicated to Jerry Lewis. ... [Non-text portions of...
Viva Italia! His line in HARDLY WORKING is now relevant to the GOP caucus. "There must be a job that can use a clown." Jerry. "I don't want to go into...
A different, non-Hollywood film, thanks to RB - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bingham-ray-film-producer-with-a-maverick-streak-6671392.html Tony...
I'm still here, Brad. I post the obituaries not just to remember a diverse number of people who have contributed to film but reanimate the site in the...
It has been a long time since I've read When We Dead Awaken, but isn't the key line something along the lines of, "When we dead awaken, we shall find that we...
... Yeah, I really should look in on Dave's excellent blog more. Listservs are a few Internet generations ago by now: blogs are even in trouble, with...
Anyone aware of in-progress books or major essays on Rouben Mamoulian? How well does Sarris' assessment stand up, if at all? Cordially, Barry S. Alpert ...
There's a section on Mamoulian in Mark N. Grant's *The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical* (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004); but as the title...
There's Tom Milne's 1969 book Mamoulian in the old Cinema One Series published by Viking in the US and Thames and Hudson in the UK. I'm sure it's out of print....
Not everyone here cares for David Thomson, but his BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY was for me an alternative/corrective to THE AMERICAN CINEMA, and definitely came out...
... "...THE MARK OF ZORRO clearly shows me some of the pleasure in light and shadow that Thomson makes much of." I found my copy of Milne's book and he quotes...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-17157227 Most of the missing footage from A FOR ANDROMEDA has been reconstructed on a UK DVD and he is on a...
One recent film death that I noted was the passing of Japanese actress Chikage Awashima ten days ago. She was best known among Western cinephiles for the...
Awashima worked steadily until the end of her life in TV and movies; she acted with longtime colleagues Nakadai Tatsuya and Sugai Kin in her last picture her...
Just kidding. (I think) NY's Film Forum goes digital: http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-02-29/film/this-is-dcp-the-big-screen-test-film-forum/ (print version -...
... I just saw THE ANDERSON PLATOON for the first time - rather good. Some of you may know Schoendoerffer's biggest claim to auteurist fame, which is that...
The version that MoMA showed about a year ago didn't have English narration - I presume it was the original. - Dan ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
A few years back I got to see RED DESERT in a new print at BAM, and was blown away. It had been almost two decades since I had first seen L'AVENTURA on a big...
Film is dead, long live film. Did anyone go see the side by side STRANGELOVE? I did my own version of a comparison when Greg Motolla's ADVENTURELAND screened...
Cliff Robertson directed himself in the rodeo picture J.W. Coop, which he wrote with Gary Cartwright and Bud Shrake. It's finally out on DVD, and worth a look...
