LION OF THE DESERT ~SPECIAL FEATURES Edition~ Starring: Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, and Irene Papas [So. Korean IMPORT / NTSC-All Regions]
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Note: This is #46 in my 52 Classic Movies in 52 Weeks challenge for 2009. If you're looking for a good example of a film that represents the cultural zeitgeist (double word score!) of its era, In the Heat of the Night would be a good candidate. It tells...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
In her memoir, Claire Bloom describes Philip Roth as an extremely self-centered, often abusive man to whom she devoted herself for almost two decades.
Babylon Wales (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Here is a clip from a TV play, The Evil Within (1953), part of the Tales of Tomorrow series which was regularly broadcast in America. It's basically a reworking of the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story. This particular show has acquired cult significance because of the iconic presence of James Dean, who played a lab assistant. I'm more interested, however, in the slightly less iconic presence of Margaret...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² ....
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...
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