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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
This 1966 drama ticks most of the right boxes when it comes to entertaining as well as educating. Pity they didn't let Thomas More be more scatalogical than saintly Director: Fred Zinnemann Entertainment grade: B History grade: A– Sir Thomas More was a lawyer and scholar at the court of King Henry VIII. As a devout Catholic, he had serious reservations about the king's divorce from Catherine...
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SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Someone once asked Fred Zinnemann, the director, what a certain famous movie star was like. "What makes you think," Zinnemann replied, "that she's like anything?"
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Zada News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
High Noon is an American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. [1] This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). [2] HIGH NOON is a masterpiece that is [...]
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Music News: Played Johnny Fontane in 'Godfather' -- Singer Al Martino, who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather" and recorded hits including "Spanish Eyes" and the Italian ballad "Volare" in a 50-year musical career, died Tuesday. He was 82.
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Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Director Mike Nichols will be feted by the American Film Institute next summer with a life achievement award. Nichols is the only one of the 10 winners of the entertainment awards grand slam -- Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy -- to be honored by the AFI. Nichols won a Grammy with then-partner Elaine May for the comedy album "An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May" in 1961, the same year...
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
In the Living Hall of the Frick Collection, on either side of a fireplace, there are portraits by Hans Holbein of the two most illustrious politicians of the court of Henry VIII. On the left is Sir Thomas More, Henry’s lord chancellor from 1529 to 1532, who, when . . .
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[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The award-winning director reminisces about the making of Fame, the 1980 film which won two Oscars, spawned a hit television series and inspired a worldwide craze for legwarmers Having had some...
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lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Not just The Godfather, but the making of The Godfather.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Just like the film the making of 'The Godfather' tells an ugly story of fear and dysfunction says Philip Horne.
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Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Many consider 1939 to be the Hollywood's finest year in terms of classic film production, the year that gave us "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" among others. But in this article from the Seattle Times, the year 1959, during which "Ben-Hur," "North by Northwest," "Some Like It Hot," were all released, also was a very comparably significant...
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Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
[This review has been cross-posted at Decisions At Sundown , a blog started by Jon Lanthier and dedicated exclusively to the Western genre. From now on I will be cross-posting all of my Western reviews with this blog, where I am one of several contributors.] Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo is the pinnacle of the director's late style, in which he increasingly stripped his films down into ambling, nearly plotless...
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[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
This review has been cross-posted at Decisions At Sundown , a blog started by Jon Lanthier and dedicated exclusively to the Western genre. From now on I will be cross-posting all of my Western reviews...
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