Felon Fest: Television on DVD
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Kid and Hef, two old-timer felons, shame CSI with their collection of crime dramas (which includes a "bitchslapping" Perry Mason)
Joseph Cotten
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The First Time Watching 'The Third Man'
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Fantastic cinematography, a great performance from Welles, but Brad isn't completely satisfied
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Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy Romance in Focus
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Chris & Don: A Love Story, the documentary about the 35-year relationship between author Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy, has been given a write-up in the New York Times today: "Defying social conventions of the 1950s and ’60s, the...
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Guys Who Make Comics Love Sports: David Aja
I Dislike Your Favorite Team (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
I have a theory. As a comic book lover and a sports lover, I do not represent any actual massive break in the demographics. My theory is that readers (like myself) and writers and artists of comics love sports. So why not interview the guys who create comic books and see where their prejudices lie, sports-wise? First up, David Aja, brilliant artist, best known in the states for his work on Iron
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Gli Uomini dal passo pesante / The Tramplers
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
The casual viewer can be forgiven for confusing this 1965 spaghetti western from hypenate writer-producer-director Albert Band with Sergio Corbucci's 1966 entry The Hellbenders , also produced and co-authored by Band. Both films see Joseph Cotten playing much the same character, the southern patriarch who refuses to accept that the war is over and that things are changing, spurring a familial and generational...
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2008 FRAMELINE32—Chris & Don: A Love Story
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
"We don't need no piece of paper from the City Hall keeping us tied and true…" —Joni Mitchell, "My Ol' Man" Historically, the California Supreme Court's recent decision affirming gay marriage—while good news—doesn't take away much from the countless couples who committed themselves without sanction in decades past; the intergenerational partnership of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy being perhaps...
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TCM Pick O’ The Day — Monday, May 26th
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
11:00am PST - Since You Went Away (1944) -A mother and wife struggle to cope while her husband is off serving in World War II. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten. Dir: John Cromwell. BW-177 mins, TV-G Tomorrow TCM celebrates Memorial Day with a 24-hour war film marathon. Let me recommend Since You Went Away, a [...]
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Ian Jack: Hebron is a ghost town where joggers carry automatic rifles
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Ian Jack: For the settlers, subsidies and tax breaks have become as important a motive as Deuteronomy
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Hebron is a ghost town where joggers carry automatic rifles
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Comment is free: Ian Jack: For the settlers, subsidies and tax breaks have become as important a motive as Deuteronomy
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Portrait of Jennie
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
If you're around New York this weekend, you can catch a rare treat on the big, beautiful Walter Reade Theater screen on Sunday at 6:40. As part of Film Society of Lincoln Center's surprising but welcome Jennifer Jones retrospective,...
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15 May Fortune Teller says
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Your birthday today: You have great ability and natural aptitude. You are a constant reader and enjoy only good literature. Observant, critical, shrewd and cautious, you are a competent social leader. You are a loving parent and the direct source of all happiness in your home. There is no name written into the book with whom you might share this day, so spread a little happiness among these other birthday...
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Saturday Night Cinema Shadow of a Doubt
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
Shadow of a Doubt Alfred Hitchcock's favorite film. Deliciously evil Joseph Cotten "Uncle Charlie" juxta Teresa Wright's angelic goodness. Great stuff.
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Movies in Paris & Reviewing Beyond the Forest (1949)
My Life in Movies (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Grave of Henri Langlois, a co-founder of La Cinematheque Francaise, at Montparnasse Cemetery. I just got back from a two-week trip to Europe, respectively split between stays in Paris and Berlin. One aspect of the former city I was especially looking forward to is the prevalence of cinemas and general interest in films. While [...]
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Since you went away ****
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
GONE WITH THE WIND producer David O Selznick was more than a one-hit wonder.
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In Harry Lime's footsteps
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
A stroll in the sewers isn't a normal tourist attraction - unless they are those of Vienna, immortalised in The Third Man. CATE HOPE sees the underside of Austria's capital.
