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...
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Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Feb 9, 2012 12:44 am
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...
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thebradstevens
Feb 12, 2012 6:12 pm
... It seems that many people stopped posting here around the time they started contributing to the discussions on Dave Kehr's blog....
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Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Feb 15, 2012 4:18 pm
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...
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Richard Modiano
tharpa2002
Feb 15, 2012 5:43 pm
Not an obituary, but Christa Fuller reminded her Facebook friends that 2012 is Sam's centenaryand posted this link:...
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edelvision
edelsteindavid
Feb 15, 2012 5:43 pm
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...
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sallitt1
Feb 15, 2012 8:08 pm
... 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...
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Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Feb 15, 2012 11:17 pm
Until people return here, they will also find that they "never lived." Tony...
49220
vanguardphenom
Feb 16, 2012 4:18 pm
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 ...
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Biff McKeldin
mckeldinb
Feb 16, 2012 4:42 pm
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...
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Richard Modiano
tharpa2002
Feb 16, 2012 5:19 pm
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....
49223
sallitt1
Feb 16, 2012 7:17 pm
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...
49224
tharpa2002
Feb 16, 2012 8:16 pm
... "...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...
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jess_l_amortell
Feb 20, 2012 7:23 pm
In print edition of today's Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/movies/damien-bona-creator-of-inside-oscar-dies-at-56.html...
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Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Feb 26, 2012 10:52 pm
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...
49227
sallitt1
Feb 26, 2012 11:55 pm
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...
49228
Richard Modiano
tharpa2002
Feb 27, 2012 4:21 pm
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...
49229
Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Feb 28, 2012 12:37 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/9109399/Erland-Josephson.html Tony W....
49230
jess_l_amortell
Feb 29, 2012 5:10 pm
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 -...
49231
Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Mar 15, 2012 6:19 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9144269/Pierre-Schoendoerffer.html Tony W....
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Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Mar 16, 2012 9:19 pm
... 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...
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Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Mar 17, 2012 12:47 am
If this is the version narrated by Stuart Whitman then it is a re-edit of the original version that won an Award. Tony W....
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Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Mar 17, 2012 2:05 pm
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...
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Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Mar 18, 2012 2:13 am
Yes, since Schoendoerffer himself did the commentary on the original. Tony...
49236
Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Mar 26, 2012 9:57 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/arts/tonino-guerra-italian-screenwriter-and-poet-dies-at-92.html Tony W....
49237
Crescent9
peckinpah200...
Apr 2, 2012 1:18 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/9179407/Robert-Fuest.html Tony W....
49238
jeandodge67
Apr 20, 2012 4:43 am
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...
49239
jeandodge67
Apr 20, 2012 5:18 am
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...
49240
jeandodge67
Apr 20, 2012 5:43 am
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...
49241
Crescent9
peckinpah200...
May 2, 2012 9:28 pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/02/patricia-medina?newsfeed=true Tony W....
