The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
BFI, retail Night and the City is the stand-out title here, a top-quality example of the genre with the unusual feature that the mean streets through which smalltime hustler Richard Widmark plies his trade are the still-familiar ones of postwar London. Like his lead character, Jules Dassin, whose direction is exhilarating, was on the run – from the McCarthy witchhunt in Hollywood. He's best-known...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Femmes Fatales Googie Withers The great Googie Withers in Night and the City, directed by Jules Dassin in 1950. With Richard Widmark, Herbert Lom, Gene Tierney, etc.. An underrated film, but which still does not do justice to Gerald Kersh's great novel. Now if only someone would adapt Fowler's End or Prelude to an Uncertain Midnight.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Cinematic birthdays for Nov. 19th , this time with lighter loafers. 1889 Clifton Webb , reportedly as out as an actor could be back in the day but Oscar never gave him their top prize. They never give out actors the statue. Sad, but true. Classic films include Oscar favorites like Laura and Three Coins in the Fountain ( review ) but he's most famous for playing Mr. Belvedere, the uptight gentlemen...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
What better way to spend the coming winter nights than with a very large brandy, a block of choccie, something warm to cuddle up to. Plus, a delicious film noir in all its black and white gloriousness. This new BFI box set sees four classic titles that don’t often [...]
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Brigitte Bardot came before Anne Baxter but I never fancied Bardot so I skipped her. Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985 ): Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana to Kenneth Stuart Baxter and Catherine Wright; her maternal grandfather was the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. ... Baxter co-starred with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney in 1946's The Razor's Edge , for which she won the Academy...
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Senegalese pop star Youssou N’dour has made headlines for his music in more than one way – frustrated by negative perceptions of his Muslim faith, he created a deeply spiritual album titled Egypt which he used to call for a more tolerant view of Islam. Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love is [...]
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
USA Feature Film Director: Henry King Writers: Norman Reilly Raine, Lamar Trotti, John Hersey Cinematographer: Joseph LaShelle Composer: Alfred Newman Cast: John Hodiak, Gene Tierney, William Bendix, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte, Stanley Prager, Henry Morgan A handsome young Italian-American major (with a surprising amount of common sense for a military man) is assigned to restore order to the small...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Within the span of two years, the otherworldly beauty Gene Tierney starred in two films with the same celestial destination: Lubitsch's 1943 comedy of marital happiness, Heaven Can Wait , and John Stahl's 1945 lurid marital nightmare, Leave Her to Heaven . In Stahl's film, Tierney's Elle...
Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
At the end of October I put up a post saying, essentially, that I hadn't done all I wanted to do. In a month in which I had planned to delve fully into the emotional passions involved in horror I had, to my eyes, come up short. As such, I said I was going to extend October celebrations throughout the year. Well, here's the first holdover. Warning: SPOILERS ABOUND! On this day in 1991 Gene Tierney died...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Dragonwyck is a 1946 film directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Gene Tierney , Vincent Price , Walter Huston , Spring Byington , Anne Revere , Harry Morgan and Jessica Tandy . It's more gothic romance than horror, but it shows up in some of the horror film lists I've seen. Youtube has it online divided into 10 sections. part 1: part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , part 8 , part...
sighsandwhispers (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
By far the most beautiful woman ever.
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Nodding its hat to the South Korean cult hit A Tale of Two Sisters (on which it is based), The Others and The Orphan, The Uninvited is a beautifully looking thriller that is definitely in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle genre of films, but the gorgeous cinematography harks back to the Technicolor days of [...]
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Waldo Lydecker ( played by Clifton Webb, to detective Mark McPherson, played by Dana Andrews ): “You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward. I doubt they've ever had a patient who fell in love with a corpse.”— Laura (1944), screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary, directed by Otto...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
I probably should have been working tonight, as many deadlines loom, but I decided I was approaching burnout and would be more productive tomorrow if I relaxed and watched a movie instead...I'm glad I did. Tonight's movie was CLOSE TO MY HEART, a solid adoption soaper with a trio of terrific actors in Gene Tierney, Ray Milland, and Fay Bainter. I enjoyed it very much. Midge and Brad (Tierney and Milland)...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
what a darling picture of gene tierney. it is hard to imagine this smiling young person as the same woman who suffered from mental illness. like frances farmer, gene was given a series of shock treatments. it sounds so barbaric now.
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