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Jose here. Although we don't have anything resembling Thanksgiving in my culture (Penélope Cruz was talking about that on Letterman the other day ) I have a special place in my heart (and stomach) for turkey, gravy and pumpkin pie. I also feel very grateful for the following: Technicolor, Woody Allen banter, Judy Garland's smile, the millisecond of suspense between normal talking and spontaneous...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Leopard Man2:20am Monday, 16 Nov 2009 Repeat CC M A leopard, rented by a PR man for a stunt, escapes and kills a child. Further murders are then attributed to the animal, but the PR man believes the murderer to be human. CAST: Dennis O'Keefe DIR: Jacques Tourneur (1943)
One1more2time3's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
SIR KEN ADAM was born 1921 in berlin, germany. being jewish/german he relocated in 1933 to england with his family. after the second worldwar he started to work in the film industry, educated as an architect. in the mid-fifties he worked in hollywood on AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS and BEN HUR. it was [...]
Badelynge (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
"It's in the trees... It's coming!" Having just recently reread M.R.James' classic supernatural story Casting the Runes, I thought I'd also re-watch the film version this Halloween. Made in 1957, Night of the Demon takes the main plot elements from James' creepy tale, adds a few Hollywood staples (a smooth talking American scientist, complete with a chance of romance female sidekick) to deliver...
man with black hat (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
"I Walked With A Zombie" is the title of a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and released by RKO. It is also the title of this uncharacteristically unimaginative tune by R.E.M. It was raining earlier today, so there won't be much walking with zombies in Arlington County, at least not outside. Of course, the County website provides all kinds of possibilities for Halloween fun with...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
If there is anyone I would want to choose what movies I watch this Halloween weekend (besides Stephen King or Wes Craven), I'd want it to be Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese. He's a genius filmmaker and I'm sure he knows great horror when he sees it. I think this would've been much better coordinated if his new movie Shutter Island was actually out in theaters (damn you Paramount), but either...
scanners (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Zombies and vampires, zombies and vampires -- sure, we're entering Dias de los Muertos, but the undead are crawling all over popular culture these nights. "Twilight" to "Tru-Blood," "Zombieland" to "Fox News," the undead are back with a vengeance....
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BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Everyone else is doing this and since my PC is working (for now) I thought I'd jump in. The problem is that my interests and tastes change from time to time and so tomorrow this list might be at least a little different. For now, however, here ' tis . The Wicker Man Halloween Night of the Hunter Night of the Demon Night of the Living Dead Frankenstein The Devil Rides Out Poltergeist Theatre of Blood...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Ahoy, squirts! here with the newest October special horror run of A Movie A Day
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Reading about movies, you hear stories of some films shot in five days and other films shot over three years. Some of the poverty-row directors and B-movie makers cranked out as many movies as they could during a calendar year, while filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin and Stanley Kubrick waited years between projects (making each release a new "event"). Most filmmakers, I think, given the chance...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
This week sees Tom Hanks return to the role of author Dan Brown's most famous son, Robert Langdon, as the box-office hit Angels & Demons arrives on Blu-ray and DVD. While Langdon does battle with scheming Illuminati, ponderous popes and parachuting pontiffs, we celebrate with our list of the most angelic and devilish heroes of cinema...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
I Walked With a Zombie is a 1943 Val Lewton horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur . It's inspired by the Bronte novel Jane Eyre . I like this one. It's creepy and eerie without all the gore and shock that some horror movies aim for. Youtube has it divided into segments. Those should autoplay from here: Variety says it "fails to measure up to the horrific title." The New York Times takes...
The Horror Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Renaissance man of the Fantastique, Tim Lucas is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, critic, and blogger. A select few of his most recent achievements include the completion of the acclaimed biography Mario Bava: All The Colors Of The Dark and shepherding Video Watchdog to its 150th issue. He’s forgotten more about strange cinema than [...]
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
THE FORGOTTEN hits the stands once more over at The Auteurs’ Notebook, where Tourneur pere et fils come under analysis, and we ponder the question of why it is so few filmmakers have their legs amputated. A strange resonance is generated, since we were just discussing REAR WINDOW and Cornell Woolrich, a literary peg-leg. Posted in [...]
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Cat People (1942 Slightly Trashy Directed by: Jacques Tourneur. Written by: DeWitt Bodeen Plot: Guy (Kent Smith) marries a gorgeous, mysterious, foreign woman (Simone Simon), who believes that she...
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