LION OF THE DESERT ~SPECIAL FEATURES Edition~ Starring: Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, and Irene Papas [So. Korean IMPORT / NTSC-All Regions]
Fine Dry Wit (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Consider this a rebut from all of the terribles going on in the world. Oklahoma and Dr Zhivago are very well known, which is why I didn’t give many clues. The other movie is “Very Other”. The tag line is: “The motion picture with something to offend everyone!” and it certainly attempts to do just that. “The Loved One” came out the same year as “Dr. Zhivago”,...
Brokedown Palace (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Spending actual money on this. The Golden Age of Television Synopsis The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed,...
Pa's Tale (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
As recommended by Bob Dylan. There was a bit too much sport on the box on Saturday, so I popped over to BBC and watched an hour of a film about Waterloo. Historically in order, but Rod Steiger as Napoleon took a bit of swallowing. Entertaining, because we knew the result, but fairly pointless. It's a bit like sport really, which is a pastime, not an earth-shattering matter of real importance.(Even...
DVD Movie Maniac (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Stax Entertainment - Year: 1987 - Cover: Good - Format: 16:9 - Length: 1h25m/1h24m - Before: No - Again: No - Price: £1 - Rating: 5.5/10 (more of the DVD cover didn't reveal the ending). In American Gothic , a group of yuppies charter a plane for a camping trip, only to find themselves making an emergency landing on an isolated island off the US coast. They...
In One Ear... (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
…So we get special editions of te original on DVD/Blu-Ray. It’s pretty much a fact, a remake means the original film gets the special edition treatment. Here are five choices. 1.American Gothic: A bunch of modern city dwellers get stuck on a remote island inhabited by a family which has left the 1920’s and have “kids” [...]
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds off movie download sites is becoming very common. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site.
Dissensus (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Does anyone remember (or indeed have) a DJ food radio set from around 2000 (possibly for Gilles Petersen)? It features a Jack DeJohnette tune, which is all cymbals, and a monologue from Rod Steiger in the Pawnbroker. It's specifically the DeJohnette tune I'm interested in.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Obama is a lot of things that are scary, and only one of these is the fact that he is black.
VNOG Blog (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
This past weekend I saw the film " In the Heat of the Night ", starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. I had never seen it before and it's a wonderful film on many levels. I was particularly struck by the performances of the lead actors, and how much they convey with body language alone. The dialog is very understated, leaving a lot of room for the characters to communicate their thoughts...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The impressive recreation of France's Hundred Days has bona fide battle scenes, but Rod Steiger reduces the fearless Bonaparte to a charisma-free crusader Director: Sergei Bondarchuk Entertainment grade: C– History grade: A– With his catastrophic attempt to invade Russia in 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte began to fall from glory. In 1814, he was forced into exile on the Mediterranean isle of...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
By David Lambert - The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment... (more)
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
In Art & Copy, filmmaker Doug Pray (Surfwise, Hype!), sends up a skyrocket and fireworks for his celebratory documentary on the greats who started the advertising revolution in the 1960s. Hype! indeed!In the old buttoned-down days of the 1950s, advertising companies were old boy clubs of "ingrown mediocrity." But when Bill Bernbach took the revolutionary step of putting the art director...
Walking the Berkshires (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Sometimes an historical epic overwhelms you with its cast of thousands - CG makes this sensation absolutely commonplace - and sometimes it condenses all the action to the quiver of an eye. Last night I watched Waterloo, the 1970 film...
Political Cortex (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
One of the last of the old line of great writers passed away last week....
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
We’ve all seen the movie, and we’re all familiar with the iconic scene – when failed boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brandon) confronts his slick gangster brother, Charley (Rod Steiger) in the back of the cab on its way to delivering Terry to his death for deciding to cooperate with an investigation into racketeering on the [...]
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