Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Been kind of busy with other projects today—including taking a peek or two at the Bogart films currently being shown on Turner Classic Movies—but I did want to give readers a heads-up and announce that TCM’s got a mini-tribute to TDOY idol John Garfield tomorrow, beginning at 6:00am with the 1940 Boom Town homage (“homage” being the French word for “rip-off,”...
The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Shame Of The Marines Not starring John Garfield First off, let it be known this posting is my personal opinion, and that of no one else. On with the show. I'm disappointed -- VERY DISAPPOINTED -- with my fellow Marines up in Camp Lejeune. We Marines have always prided ourselves with our stickler adherence (bordering on the psychotic and OCD) to the history, customs and traditions of The Corps....
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
#1 TUBEMOTION.COM : Full Movie Directed by Busby Berkeley Produced by Benjamin Glazer Hal B. Wallis Written by Sig Herzig Bertram Millhauser (uncredited) Beulah Marie Dix (uncredited) Starring John Garfield Claude Rains Ann Sheridan May Robson Gloria Dickson Billy Halop Music by Max Steiner Cinematography James Wong Howe Editing by Jack Killifer Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release date(s)...
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Pepe le Moko is #555 on My Quest to watch The 1000 Greatest Films Screened 11/09/09 on DVD from GreenCine Ranked #519 on TSPDT Though it has been remade several times (both loosely and straightforwardly so) and was highly influential on Michael Curtiz when he made his Academy Award winning classic Casablanca just a few years later, and (of course) was referenced by Jean Luc Godard (via Jean Paul Belmondo)...
Hacking NetFlix (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This is a guest post by Michael Ravnitzky, with titles suggested by Katherine Brosnan. Regrettably, many classic Film Noir movies are not currently available on Netflix. While a few of the films identified below are available on DVD (in unrestored and unremastered form), many are not. Want to learn more about the amazing world of film noir? Check out the website for the Film Noir Foundation (http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org)...
Upperstall Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A BBC radio anchor was fired in November 2008 for making racist remarks. She called a taxi service to pick up her daughter, and insisted that they not send an Asian driver with a turban as that “would freak out her daughter”. It is true that children, specially babies respond well to face types that [...]
Travel (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
By Nona Robertson Look below if you came to see motion picture reviews. Here are some ways to find movie download sites. There are a lot of different phrases you can use, try "Download Full Length Movie", "Online Video Rentals", or "Music Services". The Bullfighters: This is one of the better Laurel and Hardy later works, engaging false identity as Stan is a lookalike...
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The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
From Diane Keaton to Mariel Hemingway to Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen's favorite women have been WASPy blonds. And he's not alone. As Liel Leibovitz writes in a fascinating new essay in Tablet magazine, "Since the dawn of American entertainment, Jewish...
George Szirtes (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The difference between rhythm and metre has been on my mind recently arising out of a discussion with a doctorate student who talked of rhythm as something superior to and quite other than metre. I can't quite see how this might be since rhythm presupposes some kind of regularity against which it plays. The reason it comes to mind today is that I have been working on a commission to produce a verse...
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Patsy Ruth Miller and Tay Garnett. Hollywood director Tay Garnett's (1894 – 1977) best known film was The Postman Always Rings Twice , 1946. Lana Turner burns the screen with her cool and murderous sensuality. John Garfield, real name Jacob Julius Garfinkle, gives a towering performance as the cynical chump who allows himself to be drawn into the femme fatale's spider web of homicide and betrayal....
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
USA Feature Film Director: Abraham Polonsky Writers: Abraham Polonsky, Ira Wolfert Cinematographer: George Barnes Composer: David Raksin Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Howland Chamberlain, Roy Roberts, Paul Fix, Stanley Prager Full of great emotions, grand gestures, and epic shadows, Polonsky’s slightly camp, slightly over-the-top, gangland melodrama - depicting a couple of...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
photos: oliver reed and glenda jackson from the amazing film 'women in love'/john garfield and lana turner in 'the postman always rings twice'/unknown
Q's Daydream (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
I first saw Priscilla Lane in Arsenic and Old Lace , staring along side Cary Grant. I thought she was just adorable! Then I discovered she and her two sisters were a popular singing act. A few weeks ago I had TCM on in the back round, like I do most days, and I heard that sweet little voice. The movie was Million Dollar Baby . Million Dollar Baby was so much fun and Priscilla was so darn enchanting...
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
When Dave Wolanin headed home from work at about 5 p.m. Thursday, everything at his Lansing Street business seemed fine. • GALLERY: Fire rips through Lansing Street business
O, the Bloggies! (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
I've generally liked the film noir that I've seen, but now I'm watching The Postman Always Rings Twice, and eh. I'm 10 minutes in, and already I'm getting that paint-by-numbers feeling--it's kind of like Double Indemnity would have been if the leads had no chemistry and couldn't act. ETA: Seriously, John Garfield and Lana Turner are bad. It's like a movie starring the John Carpenter-era Kurt Russell...
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