The venerable actor is dead. Malden became famous later for his American Express commercials, but was a huge screen presence in the movie realm, going tit-for-tat with George C. Scott as General Omar Bradley, a performance nearly as cherished as Scott’s Patton. A former Indiana steel-mill worker (how many actors can boast that type of [...]
Amazing to see what’s possible if you put a lot of work and effort into one piece of art. Make sure to watch the ’ Singing In The Rain ‘ clip that I posted before and the additional video in the full post. All sculptures were made by Peter William Holden .
Lt. Commander Ken White (William Holden) spends the post-WWII years toiling in a dull desk job, increasingly haunted by an incident that happened on the Tiger Shark, a submarine under his command, on the last day of the war. As the Korean War begins to heat up, Ken finds himself once again commanding the Tiger Shark. Can Ken finally put his bad memories to rest? Nancy Olson plays Holden's beautiful...
As you all know, over the years I’ve been fascinated by male and female roles in America. As the mother of a very manly little 10 year old, I take male role models in this culture very seriously. I’ve therefore noticed (and commented upon) the way in which our society consigns boys to perpetual adolescence. [...]
Grieve and I were on the same wavelength recently when we both thought of doing a screenshot guide to Kubrick's Killer's Kiss , which played this weekend at IFC. As he showed, Killer's Kiss is one of the best cinematic sources of imagery from 1950s New York City. It's packed with scenes of Times Square, and one of my favorite recurring scenes in the film takes place at a taxi dance hall. all images...
Kinetic sculptures and robotics could be also perceived in perfomative aspect, not only as installations communicating within the object itself and the creator – sculptor, engineer, passionate geek. Therefore, I’ve picked up Peter William Holden’s installations and cinematix approach where he tend to re-interpret the space, objects, movements, music and choreography of ‘wired’...
I doubt that Blake Edwards’ S.O.B. was ever a particularly believable look at the goings-on of Hollywood. Of course, that’s not at all the point of the film. Instead, it’s clearly meant to be an exaggeration, but more importantly it’s supposed to be as bitter and angry as cinematically possible. Released on July 1, 1981 we don’t need to know much of the history of the...
Note: This is #24 in my 52 Classic Movies in 52 Weeks challenge for 2009. Oh, man. Talk about bringing the crazy. Sunset Boulevard really surprised me by being an absurdly black comedy with a performance by Gloria Swanson that by all rights should be so completely over the...
By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews The way we left things yesterday , we gave Microsoft's newly revamped Bing search engine some moderately tough, everyday search tests, and gave Google the same treatment. After three heats, the score thus far is Bing 2, Google 1 , with Bing performing quite admirably in the computer parts shopping department. Search engines are fairly good for finding something you...
The disaster movie cycle was finished by 1980, pretty much killed off for good by AIRPLANE! but it’s not like the films themselves didn’t have something to do with it. THE CONCORDE-AIRPORT ’79 is absurd, THE SWARM is hysterical, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is lame, but WHEN TIME RAN OUT… is about as bad as it gets. Any degree of guilty pleasure entertainment that was once...
Pike Bishop: "He gave his word." Dutch Engstrom: "He gave his word to a railroad." Pike Bishop: "It's his word." Dutch Engstrom: "That ain't what counts! It's who you give it to! " I'm reminded of this exchange between William Holden and Ernest Borgnine in the film "The Wild Bunch" when I think of the word "marriage." We may presume to give...
DVD Video Review: Robert Mitchum gets one of his finest roles in this Boston-set crime drama, now available, for the first time officially on any format, from the Criterion Collection.
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