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Twitch (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Kicking off the “Streets of No Return” series with a screening of Delmer Daves’s Dark Passage (1947) , PFA curator Steve Seid outlined in his introductory remarks that hopefully—along with the series’ objective of spotlighting the work of a lesser-known pulp writer like David Goodis —would be an attempt to gain a sense (over the length of the series) of the concept of filmic adaptation of literary...
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Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Gordon Douglas - 1951 Lionsgate Region 1 DVD The most encouraging aspect about Lionsgate releasing a DVD from their Republic Pictures library is that it may mean other films, hopefully Moonrise and China Gate. Even among the films of...
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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
STRANDED is a lightweight but enjoyable romance starring George Brent and Kay Francis. Brent plays Mack, an engineer building the Golden Gate Bridge . Mack loves Lynn (Francis), who works for Traveler's Aid in a San Francisco train terminal. Mack doesn't see value in Lynn's job and is anxious for her to quit her job and devote her time to him. Lynn loves Mack but needs him to respect her job. In a...
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Dublin Opinion (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
As I’m acting as editor of Irish Left Review I have the right to use this minor blog to blatantly promote those articles and essays that I think deserve more attention than the fledgling magazine can muster by itself at the moment. I hate to see good stuff go under the radar, so I’m taking [...]
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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Tonight was a Dick Powell-Ruby Keeler double bill, pairing 42ND STREET with FLIRTATION WALK, a military-themed musical. Soldier Dick (Powell) first meets general's daughter Kit (Keeler) in Hawaii. They are attracted to each other but their brief acquaintance doesn't end well. Dick, supported by his fatherly sergeant (Pat O'Brien), decides to apply to West Point and become an officer. Three years later,...
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
Buy it ( HMV ) Buy it (Amazon) Buy it on Blu-ray(Amazon) Read our review 3:10 To Yuma photo gallery 3:10 To Yuma rides to top of US box office Read our preview
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Film News: UA CEO given Swarovski President's Award -- United Artists co-owner/CEO Paula Wagner will be presented the Costume Designers Guild's Swarovski President's Award at the guild's 10th annual awards gala.
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LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
All Times Pacific: 1:00pm - Dark Passage (1947) - A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-106 mins, TV-PG Hollywood went through this strange phase around 1947 where they made films from a first person point-of-view; meaning what you [...]
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Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day (Free subscription) | 12/17/2007
It's not been a great year for films, has it? Apart from all those dire polemics about Iraq that hardly anyone has bothered to see, there's been little to make one exult. Well, little so far. We're eagerly looking...
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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."
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
(1956) Richard Widmark is the orphaned son of white settlers bought up by the Comanche.
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notcoming.com | Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 10/28/2007
Delmer Daves’ original is an absolute gem of narrative, directorial and acting precision, and the overblown quality of James Mangold's remake had me worried. So, we get a burning barn in the opening scene, as if otherwise we can't comprehend the financial threat to the farm. There’s an overextended attack on a stagecoach where a Gatling gun is thrown into the mix so there’s more things getting blown...
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London Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
At the MoviesMichael Wood directed by James Mangold (2007) directed by Delmer Daves (1957)The reasons usually given for the death or dearth of westerns is that the genre deals in stark old allegories of good and evil and we are all moral sophisticates now who know the world isn't like that. If this is our explanation, we don't have an explanation at all. The world is more infested with allegories of...
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Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 09/25/2007
The return of the western as badass texican-trumpet-tinged morality tale!
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normblog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2007
If you have any love for the Western as a genre, I can recommend James Mangold's new version of an old classic, 3.10 to Yuma. It's a long time since I last saw the original, made by Delmer Daves in...
