Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Don Siegel, director (Rutgers Films in Print)
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
1. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) There’s no more famous small-town crazy whom no one’s ever going to believe than Kevin McCarthy in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. And there’s no more famous unheeded warning than his chilling prediction, delivered straight at the camera, “They’re here already! You’re next!” This was meant to be Body Snatchers’...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" (1953), based on the novel by William P. McGivern. A police detective (Glenn Ford) uncovers corruption and suffers...
The Film Doctor (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
---How you can tell that Charles Bronson is a man. ---Recommended reading: Farber on Film : The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber , edited by Robert Polito. In a review of the new book, Howard Hampton notes some surprising aspects of Farber's critical method: "1) The notion of what movie to see and what to avoid is secondary to opening up new ways of looking at the familiar and the overlooked....
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Day 14 The great Ida Lupino Road House, directed in 1948 by Jean Negulesco Private Hell 36, directed in 1954 by Don Siegel They Drive By Night, directed in 1940 by Raoul Walsh
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From the furious climax of Don Siegel's spectacular 1958 The Lineup, one of the crown jewels of Sony's new and very welcome Film Noir Classics I set. The getaway car taking an exit ramp to nowhere and narrowly missing a...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The author of more than 70 books, including four different detective series, Stuart Kaminsky, who has died aged 75, wrote in the tradition of the pulp wordsmiths. His first series, featuring the shabby private eye Toby Peters, was set in 1940s Hollywood and reflected that era's light-hearted, fast-paced crime stories. Kaminsky came to detective fiction from academia, but the ease of his prose was...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Todd McCarthy: Event defined by good film, food, people -- This six-day event was defined by three elements: reliably fine films, incredible food and good, smart people to share both with.
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Oh, wow. From TCM's uncommonly interesting Movie Morlocks blog (Suzidoll's review really makes me want to lay eyes on Trucker, which seems destined for the same daunting low visibility as Marguerite Duras's The Truck), I learned that next month will...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Berlin - Twenty years after popular uprisings swept away decades of Communist rule across Eastern Europe, Hollywood and studio bosses in the West are still trying to come to terms with the changes unleashed by the implosion of the Evil Empire. Chris...
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Sorry to hear about the passing of writer Stuart M. Kaminsky , whose intelligent and insightful 1974 book Don Siegel: Director remains carefully positioned on my bookshelf for easy access and quick reference. Indeed, I paged through it just two weeks ago while preparing a lecture for my University of Houston students prior to a classroom screening of Siegel's seminal Dirty Harry . Kaminsky also wrote...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Stuart M. Kaminsky, a film scholar turned detective novelist who was widely known for his complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age, died on Friday in St. Louis. He was 75.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
He wrote more than 70 novels, creating four distinctive detectives for series set in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Moscow, as well as four nonfiction books on film directors. Stuart M. Kaminsky, a writer of impressive range who created four distinctive detectives for series set in Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida and Moscow, has died. He was 75.
The Art of the Title Sequence (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Click to Watch SD | Click to Watch HD | iPod/iPhone The opening sequence and credits to Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” plays long, mean…and breathless? Cream-pie cool Clint Eastwood susses death and a devil atop skyscrapers to a tough Lalo Schifrin score. The soaring set piece sets your teeth on edge, the soft howl of wind [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
'Tis the season for scary movies, so it's fitting that Thomas Jane's stylish, noir-fueled horror film "Dark Country" arrives on shelves this week. In his directorial debut, the "Punisher" actor not only makes his first bow behind the camera, but he also stars alongside Lauren German ("Hostel: Part II") and Ron Perlman ("Hellboy")—two actors not [...]
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
The Story: The thing is it's comedy. " Dirty Harry " is a police procedural based on the true-crime " Zodiac " killings in San Francisco with a slant against lenient criminal rights in favor of victims' rights (which is why liberal Don Siegel agreed when his buddy Clint Eastwood asked him to direct it). Bad things happen. But there's a gallows humor that runs all the way throughout,...
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