this actor has over 130 film credits but i'm only familiar with his unpleasant role as 'mr. dietrichson' in billy wilder's 1944 classic 'double indemnity.' here is is going up to bed while his wife and lover plan his murder. moments before this sinsiter scene takes place, the three of them were all discussing the benefits of taking out an insurance policy: mrs. dietrichson: (faking it!) if we bought...
Flip the Frog, Oswald Rabbit, Koko the Clown and Toby the Pup will return to the screen Tuesday night, at the Billy Wilder Theatre in the Hammer Museum in Westwood, CA. Ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson will play in concert with a screening of 1920s and 30s animated cartoons from the UCLA Film Archive. Films will [...]
JUST like tax time, the film awards season annually elicits the inevitable moans and gibes. It's a luvvie fest. It's a chance for Cher, or Bjork, or latterly Tilda Swi
MCN's Gurus of Gold, finally up and running, have Up In The Air in the top Best Picture prediction slot, fine, followed by Precious and The Hurt Locker. Wait...they have A Serious Man in tenth place following the unseen Invictus, Nine and The Lovely Bones, and one slot behind Inglourious Basterds? Am I reading this correctly? Jokey-dokey, baseball-bat-and-gloppy-brain-matter Basterds -- a movie costarring...
Also: Overlooked Auteurs at Silent Movie Theatre When the X-rated sex comedy " The Telephone Book" was released in 1971, it was called pornographic and obscene. But now, 38 years later, it's considered a neglected masterpiece.
Ninotchka ( played by Greta Garbo ): “What have you done for mankind'” Count Leon D'Algout ( played by Melvyn Douglas ): “Not so much for mankind... for womankind, my record isn't quite so bleak.”— Ninotchka (1939), screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch, story by Melchior Lengyel, directed by Ernst Lubitsch Ninotchka premiered on the nation’s...
Hey guys, I’m back for one last post – links to 101 of my best articles! Who needs film school? -MM ----------------------------------------------- Cinematic Storytelling I read Cinematic Storytelling , which was written by the great Jennifer Van Sijll, and I just LOVED IT. This should be in the library of every aspiring screenwriter on the planet and every single technique should be memorized...
Photos of Matt and Emily Blunt on the set of The Adjustment Bureau in recent days are from Us magazine , Zimbio and the New York Post . An article from Kris Tapley at In Contention discusses Matt's recent New York Times profile and its relevance to Matt's award prospects. Steven Soderbergh compared Matt to Jack Lemmon in this article at Newsblaze . Meanwhile, Soderbergh is looking to sell the Liberace...
paragraph class="noindent"> Hollywood has always been a haven for immigrants with talent. One of the greatest, Ernst Lubitsch, arrived there from Germany in the early nineteen-twenties, not pushed by political turmoil but pulled by money. American wealth is at the heart of his 1938 comedy, “Bluebeard’ . . .
Screened August 14 2009 on MGM DVD in Brooklyn NY TSPDT rank # IMDb Wiki One: Is it backhanded praise to say that One, Two, Three is a movie you don’t even have to look at to enjoy? For the first half hour I just wanted to close my eyes and let the non-stop flow of dialogue carry [...]
Tonight we watched two movies as part of the current Audrey Hepburn tribute at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The first film on the double bill was the classic SABRINA (1954), reviewed here , and the second film was the sublime LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON. Both movies were cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder . Ariane (Hepburn) is a young cellist who lives in Paris with her father (Maurice Chevalier),...
Elmer Rice The Adding Machine , Garrick Theatre, New York, 1923 Elmer Rice The Adding Machine (New York: Samuel French, 1929) Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt (libretto), based on the play by Elmer Rice, Joshua Schmidt (music) The Adding Machine , Minetta Lane Theatre, New York, opened November 14, 2007 / the performance I attended was the matinee of May 11, 2008 My determination expressed in my 2002...
" The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes " ( Billy Wilder , 1970) It may be one of the best movies you've never seen. There's no mystery to that; no one's seen the full length version of " The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ." Conceived in the heady days of the '60's, with their roadshow presentations (long ago extinct) that played one theater once a night, and in itself was a full...
Another more recognized than well known character actor has departed the planet with the passing of the apparently born-middle-aged Lou Jacobi at the age of 95. In a town full of Jewish actors and behind-the-camera talent, Jacobi and the late Ned Glass, who was as skinny as Jacobi was chubby and who made a recent [...]
We’re through seven weeks of the NFL season, which means we can stop prefacing every statement made with, “Yeah, but it’s still early…” No real point in talking about tonight’s game - the Redskins are like Zimbabwe, and that’s all you need to know. They’re not alone. Several NFC teams are already screwed for 2009. St. Louis, [...]
TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) –Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne. Jason Reitman mined the same territory in "Thank You for Smoking" and his smash hit, "Juno," and it's pleasing to report that he's taken another rewarding journey down this prickly path in his eagerly awaited...
Download Life Stinks in DVD, DivX, PDA quality! Genres: Comedy Countries: USA Actors: Warren, Lesley Ann Molly Tambor, Jeffrey Vance Crasswell Pankin, Stuart Pritchard Morris, Howard Sailor De Luca, Rudy J. Paul Getty Wilson, Teddy Fumes Ensign, Michael Knowles Faison, Matthew Stevens Barty, Billy Willy Thompson, Brian Mean Victor O'Connor, Raymond Yo Caridi, Carmine Flophouse Owner Shore, Sammy Reverend...
TELLURIDE, Colo. (Hollywood Reporter) –Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne. Jason Reitman mined the same territory in "Thank You for Smoking" and his smash hit, "Juno," and it's pleasing to report that he's taken another rewarding journey down this prickly path in his eagerly awaited...
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