Army Archerd (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
His birthday isn't until Nov. 30 but daughter Stephanie wanted to surprise him. So, on Saturday, she produced a 90th birthday spectacular toast to her father Efrem Zimbalist,Jr. at Lakeside Country Club -- across the street(s) from his alma mater Warner Bros. "I feel like I was in heaven for a day and back," he emotionally said to me. Stephanie...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Short-film compilations are like a Whitman's Sampler: If you don't like the nutty ones, you can skip ahead to the creamy ones. This new program of nine shorts, compiled with care by the Sundance Institute, shows off the range of international filmmaking -- and the eclectic nature of what plays at
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Click Here to download full episode A prosecutor (Dana Andrews) begins to doubt his own case against a vagrant (Arthur Kennedy) accused of murdering a kindly priest on a quiet street corner. Though no one believes him, the vagrant vehemently denies his involvement. Elia Kazan directed this 1947 film noir classic based on a true story. Download [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
QUESTION: Are James Arness, Peter Graves and Pete from the "Fury" TV series related?
USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Does the world need another book on Ronald Reagan? Whether it does or not, it has one. Reagan: The Hollywood Years is the newest ...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
This week's Platinum Picks will take you to Sherwood Forest, a Connecticut town and a sleazy nightspot near the Canadian border: ...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
WHAT'S a film noir - or a horror movie? Their definitions are stretched as a marketing hook by some new themed releases. Elia Kazan's "Boomerang!" (1947) is among three films released this week under the Fox Noir umbrella. Strictly speaking...
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
"BOOMERANG." (1947. NOT RATED. 20TH CENTURY FOX. $14.98.) read more
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The 1947 "Boomerang," directed by Elia Kazan, derives from an unromantic vein of neo-realism that was popular at the time.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This compelling crime drama, based on an unsolved 1924 murder case in which a parish priest was shot to death in Bridgeport, Conn., is from Louis de Rochemont, creator of the "March of Time" documentary series. It isn't quite "film...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
(1950) Dana Andrews plays a hard-bitten, hard-hitting cop in this moody, moralistic film noir directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht
Like Anna Karina's Sweater (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Whereas Canadian rocker Bryan Adams sang of the best days of his life, it was William Wyler who gave us the epic The Best Years Of Our Lives. Embarrassingly enough, I couldn't stand the film when I first saw it...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Fox is releasing some wonderful titles in its ongoing Film Noir series on September 2, 2008. The titles are ROAD HOUSE and MOONTIDE , both starring Ida Lupino, as well as the long-delayed BOOMERANG! with Dana Andrews. Curiously, Amazon does not yet have a new listing for BOOMERANG! but hopefully that will be up soon and we'll be assured that BOOMERANG! is going to be widely available at long last....
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Pretty much everything is looking good for tomorrow on Turner Classic Movies. One fun note: they’ll be showing Assignment - Paris (1952) in which Dana Andrews uncovers an international Red conspiracy. Never seen that one. Also: a 2-disc special edition is soon coming out of the original Mummy from 1932. This is no [...]
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
screened Friday, April 25 2008 on DVD en route to San Francisco CA TSPDT rank #693 IMDb Wiki At the same time that Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (TSPDT #42) introduced arthouse audiences to existentialist cinema, B-movie veteran Jacques Tourneur’s entry into another 50s genre, the monster movie, tapped as potently into humankind’s fear of [...]
