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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
THE KILLER IS LOOSE is a very creepy crime noir directed by Budd Boetticher . I loved the deep cast and '50s L.A. area location shooting but wasn't crazy about the plot. All in all, I found it a flawed yet worthwhile film. Joseph Cotten plays Sam Wagner, an L.A. police detective who accidentally shoots and kills the wife of a bank robber, Leon Poole (Wendell Corey), when arresting Poole. Poole pledges...
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
In the nineteen-fifties, Fred Zinnemann (“High Noon”) and George Stevens (“Shane”) tried to freeze the Western genre into a single archetypal film, while directors like Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann were taking it in bitter new directions. “Ride the High Country,” Sam Peckinpah . . .
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Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
"There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforward there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray." - Jean-Luc Godard I watched Johnny Guitar last night and all I have to say is - let the gushing begin. Seriously, Johnny Guitar is what cinema was and still should be. Combining Ray's unique talent for visually luscious filmmaking...
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The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
by James Scott Bell I love a good Western. This uniquely American genre sums up our collective spirit better than any other. In fact, the decline in the popularity of Westerns seems to track right along with the fragmentation of our society. So a look back at the classics (I'm not into post-modern revisionist oaters) is also a look back at ourselves, as we were, silhouetted against the horizon. Maybe...
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
News: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The William Castle Film Collection on 20th October 2009 priced at $80.95 SRP. The master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience part...
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Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Patti Abbott posted her thoughts on western movies the other day and to date she's received forty eight replies. That's why I read her every day. She's always entertaining and interesting. But forty-eight replies to western movies--who woulda thunk it? The last time I posted some of my own thoughts on the subject I got several off line letters calling me a crank, mostly because I'm not much of a fan...
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Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. It's also quintessential Tarantino — even more drenched in film references than gore, with a proudly miss...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Who cares if his new film misses the mark? Quentin Tarantino's biggest achievement is as an advocate of trash cinema Although we should probably now give up on the notion of Quentin Tarantino as a serious film-maker, let us still gather here to praise him, not to bury him. Others, with a taste for the job, can do the burying, and with his incoherent and embarrassingly ill-wrought new movie Inglourious...
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The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Answering Cinema Steve Rybin is a film scholar and writer living in Atlanta , Georgia . He is the author of The Cinema of Michael Mann and a forthcoming volume on the films of Nicholas Ray. The Apartment (1960) _Billy Wilder L'Atalante (1934) _Jean Vigo Barry Lyndon (1975) _Stanley Kubrick Bonjour Tristesse (1958) _Otto Preminger California Split (1974) _Robert Altman Céline and Julie Go Boating...
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Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Young Billy Young Burt Kennedy - 1969 MGM Region 1 DVD The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Burt Kennedy - 1969 Warner Brother Region 1 DVD The revived interest in Budd Boetticher has in turn inspired me to...
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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Given that my literary tastes run towards big, ambitious, hyperactive novels, it wouldn’t seem that Butcher's Crossing and Stoner, the second and third novels (of four) from John Williams, would both be in my all-time favorite list (top twenty-five*): both are written in a hardworking, "plain" style--beautifully written in that style, if that makes any sense--and tell quiet, introspective...
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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 04/20/2009
Last month, a cheer went up amongst cinephiles when Warner Bros. unveiled , through which the studio intends to release long out-of-print titles from its 6,800-film library. At $19.95 apiece, film collectors can at last start loading up on vintage movies that have for one reason or another been held back from DVD - or, in some cases, VHS. The titles will only be available for purchase online at WB's...
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Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
Film nerds of the world, rejoice! Earlier this week Warner Bros. announced that it would open up its vaults and make more than 150 of its back-catalog movies available on DVD by special order for $19.95 a pop (plus shipping;...
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Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 03/25/2009
Film nerds of the world, rejoice! Earlier this week Warner Bros. announced that it would open up its vaults and make more than 150 of its back-catalog movies available on DVD by special order for $19.95 a pop (plus shipping;...
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