[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
As the wintry abyss of the week between Christmas and New Years Dayhits alongside days of gorging on baked goods and holiday sweets,TCMbecomes particularly vital. This week isbackloaded with an...
The blog Film (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Ronald Bergan: Classical music in the movies often seems to have a detrimental effect (see Clockwork Orange) or gets talked over. Why can't film-makers let the music do the talking?
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Whisky Galore!/Tight Little Island Alexander Mackendrick - 1949 The Maggie Alexander Mackendrick - 1954 both Anchor Bay Region 1 DVD Recent discussion on Sweet Smell of Success was a reminder that I should see the earlier available films by...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
The peerless Self-Styled Siren has a wonderful post up about one of my favorite films, Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell of Success, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. The one bit she neglects to mention is one of the movie's hippest...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957). A sleazy PR man will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist. To achieve this gain he tries to help the columnist break up the latter's younger sister's relationship with a jazz musician, something the overprotective columnist does not approve of. Alexander Mackendrick WritersErnest Lehman (novel) Clifford Odets (writer CastBurt...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
'YOU – what's the bleeding time?' With these immortal words James Robertson Justice confirmed his place in the postwar British comedy pantheon, in his masterful ro
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
1:15am PST - Sweet Smell Of Success (1957) - A crooked press agent stoops to new depths to help an egotistical columnist break up his sister’s romance. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner. Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. BW-96 mins, TV-PG Absolutely fantastic film in every regard: script, cinematography, score, and especially acting. This is the DVD you shove [...]
Ambival.net (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Jim Sharman Almost Famous: Untitled Cameron Crowe The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen William Friedkin The Birds Alfred Hitchcock The Fisher King Terry Gilliam The Strawberry Statement Stuart Hagmann Buffalo ‘66 Vincent Gallo Pieces of April Peter Hedges Uptown Girls Boaz Yakin Tarzan Kevin Lima, Chris Buck The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy Cinema Paradiso...
Ambival.net (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
Lockin’ up the list for another year to look back on in times to come Almost Famous: Untitled Cameron Crowe The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen William Friedkin The Birds Alfred Hitchcock The Fisher King Terry Gilliam The Strawberry Statement Stuart Hagmann Buffalo ‘66 Vincent Gallo Pieces of April Peter Hedges Uptown Girls Boaz Yakin Tarzan Kevin Lima, Chris Buck The Umbrellas [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
Arts & entertainment: Joel and Ethan Coen tell John Patterson about Texas, torture and a 'fantastic' haircut
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
Film News: Darkhorse directors also in the Oscar race -- Mangold has been gearing up to remake "3:10 to Yuma" his entire career. First seeing the 1957 Delmer Daves original in a classroom while he was a teaching assistant for director-turned-professor Alexander Mackendrick at CalArts, Mangold says he later used the film as a "plot template" while directing "Cop Land."
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/13/2007
DIRECTOR James Mangold stood firmly behind making his dream western 3:10 to Yuma, in spite of crippling studio, budget and casting setbacks, says SUSAN KING
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2007
Despite the occasional success of an “Unforgiven” or “Dances With Wolves,” the movie Western has never come close to recapturing its heyday between 1925 and 1970.
Dispatches from Zembla (Free subscription) | 07/30/2007
I went on a movie watching binge this weekend. Starting from Saturday afternoon till Sunday midnight I saw the following movies. No End in Sight (documentary about the iraq war) Sweet Smell of Success (Dir: Alexander Mackendrick) Crash (Dir: David Cronenberg) The Two of Us (French, Dir: Claude Berri) The Woman in the Window (Dir: Fritz Lang) Laura (Dir: Otto Preminger) Au Hasard Balthazar (Dir: Robert...
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
Wednesday, July 13-------- About seventy miles north of New York City, nestled in the picturesque Hudson River Valley , sits that citadel of culture..... Bard College . Perhaps no other institution of higher learning has a greater influence in the fields of music, performing arts, painting and sculpture and other artistic disciplines. read more
