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A Writer's Life (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Tonight's showing in my personal film noir film festival was Sam Fuller's PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET starring Richard Widmark as a two-bit pick-pocket who lifts a billfold from a lady's purse on the subway. The billfold contains a stolen film-strip...
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.
Kecek-Kecek (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A sweet lad or lass is cömè llötè , but the well turned out one is jangök. Jangök is smart without going over the top; subtle, and not so very loud. You cannot be jangök with your sarong sweeping the carpet, or worse, in mud. You cannot be jangök if your semutar is tied in a loose fashion and is hanging gelöndèh across your forehead. And then,...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
In case anyone’s been wondering, part of the reason I haven’t been updating as much lately is because of some very minor surgery that I had recently. It’s not the only reason for my absence but it’s a good one and even though it was minor, surgery is surgery, right? It hurts. It takes some time to recover. That’s all you need to know. But since I made it through I figured...
Lagniappe's Lair (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
So since it's Saturday, Lagniappe and I spent the morning watching westerns on TV. This time, we watched Warlock, a 1959 movie starring Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, and one of my favorites, Richard Widmark.(It also stars DeForrest Kelly of later Star Trek fame, and Frank Gorshin had a small, uncredited part as well.) The story was about a reformed outlaw turned deputy and a Marshal and his sidekick...
Travel (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
By Leo Delgado Movie reviews follow this paragraph. You can find a lot of information on movie downloads sites if you do a good search. There are a lot of different phrases you can use, try "DVD Movies Downloads", "Illegal Movie Downloads", or "Film Online". Lightning the White Stallion: Incredibly weak family fare with Rooney a prosperous guy whose racehorse is stolen....
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
a have long harbored the dream of making tee shirts with an image of william holden upon a horse with 'wild bill holden' written across the top. i just always thought that was funny. i never did that. now along comes another bill who actually was known as 'wild.' his friends called him 'wild bill wellman.' even though he possessed great looks he chose to go behind the camera and became one of the most...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews In the final scenes of Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), which history may yet restore to its rightful place as one of the dumbest movies ever made, the President of the United States (Charles Durning) learns from a renegade general-turned-prison escapee (Burt Lancaster) that the whole point of the Vietnam War was a geopolitical bluster intended to convince the Soviet...
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Richard Widmark must be among the most atypical leading men in 1950s American cinema. He isn’t associated with a distinct screen persona and there’s nothing “starry” or especially charismatic about him: thin lips, a pallid face, slicked-back hair and a distracted expression that’s occasionally punctuated by a cocky grin, as if he unexpectedly remembered that funny things...
Our World As We See It (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
The Talk Show In Heaven This week there's going to one heck of a Talk Show originating in Heaven... Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon will be hosting it, and you just can't get a better combination then that. There won’t be guys like George Clooney and Rosie O'Donnell there and not even Sean Penn or Whoopi Goldberg to turn you off . You'll be able to stay awake for this one, as I heard that tonight's...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Recommended Fox has released 1957's Time Limit , a tense, emotionally complicated Korean War courtroom drama originally released through United Artists, and starring Richard Widmark, Richard Basehart, Martin Balsam and Rip Torn, with Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden at the helm for his only directorial effort. Adapted (by Denker) from the critically-acclaimed Broadway play written by Henry Denker and...
Dysthymia (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
The whole thing is a gift for the eedjit meeja. We all say we have 'flu, when really we only have a cold. All Influenza strains can kill infants and the elderly ALL the time fer chrissakes. AND our eedjit govt could have kept this particular strain of H1N1 flu out of the country by giving masks to all new arrivals and instructing them to wear for a week. That simple, and god knows they had all the...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
I stopped wishing people happy birthday on Shadowplay when I noticed they had a tendency to die shortly thereafter — Richard Widmark, Jules Dassin… and I felt quite good about stopping, because it seems like too easy a way to generate blog content (what an ugly phrase that is). Nevertheless, today does happen to be the [...]
EDWARD CROPPER (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
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