Click here to create your personal news page. The news that appears on John Frankenheimer will appear there and be constantly updated. You can then modify the page, share it with your friends, or export it and have it appear elsewhere.
You can also create a personal news page and follow the news that interests you by clicking on the tab labelled 'New page'.
Ahoy, squirts! here with today’s installment of A Movie A Day.[For those now joining us, A Movie A Day is my attempt at filling in gaps in my film knowledge. My DVD collection is thousands strong, many of them films I haven’t seen yet, but picked up as I scoured used DVD stores. Each day I’ll pull a previously unseen film from my collection or from my DVR and discuss it here. Each movie will have some...
We all know that President-elect Obama has an awfully huge job ahead of him in the next few months. I suggest he brainstorm with Burt Lancaster's character from the 1964 film "The Train" for a few tips. In Hollywood-land Lancaster...
Blu-Ray News: Fox Home Entertainment have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of The French Connection and its sequel French Connection II on 24th February 2009. Gene Hackman stars as iconic New York City Police Detective Jimmy Popeye Doyle, a man who ...
Should I see it? No. Short Review: The scariest thing about this horror movie is that it was released. To be fair, this film had one hard time getting made. The project began with John Frankenheimer as director. He died in 2002. Then Paul Schrader (yes, they actually handed it over to the screenwriter of The Last Temptation of Christ ) took over and was canned. Finally, the producers, having shown...
The nominations for this year’s National Book Award were announced this week, and among the novels on the list for fiction were two first books: Salvatore Scibona’s The End and Rachel Kushner’s Telex from Cuba. It’s not every year that two first-time novelists are nominated for such a prestigious award, and it’s hard not be [...]
The spies-turned-mercenaries of the slick action flick RONIN may be blasting their way to your hi-def set -- a series based on the 1998 Robert DeNiro/Jean Reno movie from director John Frankenheimer is now in the works. MGM is working on bringing the car chases and gunfights to the small screen. The show (being co-produced by the BBC) will be "reconfigured" from the movie, but will presumably still...
No, there's no free pony for anyone. I just put that in there. But boy, the TV news doesn't stop - even when I want it to. For example, if you haven't noticed yet (and I'll certainly write more on this later since failure analysis is really what I do), NBC is totally imploding . Most (all') of...
The Train (1964) I'm getting ready to go cover the Toronto International Film Festival , and the preliminary research you try to do before a big fest is, as ever, rattling round my head and...
John Frankenheimer was one of the great black & white directors - in fact, I took his advice from an interview with him I saw once and checked out some of his cheesy eighties pulp like 52 Pick-Up with Roy Scheider and Dead Bang with Don Johnson but I turned the colour off on my TV; he said they were much better viewed in monochrome and yes, they are. He was also the master of the DVD director's commentary...
Continuing Ordovicius 's challenge to programme twelve nights of cinematic salubrity: Fifth Night: Seven Days in May Shakespeare was a bald-headed Brummie , but if he had been alive and employed as John Frankenheimer's scriptwriter in the 1960s, he would have given us this film. A troubled king of a divided his realm, a military leader scheming in the wings, an officer torn by loyalties, a woman ill-used,...
