The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
This is an enjoyable conspiracy thriller in the manner of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May , starring the fetching Romola Garai as Anne, politically naive movie star and adopted daughter of a rich Tory MP with a country estate in Norfolk, who, in the long hot summer of 1939, stumbles across an establishment plot involving the SIS and the aristocracy. They'll stop at nothing, including blackmail...
CHILD OF TELEVISION (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Ed and Frankie welcome actor Richard Anderson as they discuss his role as Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman and the impact and appeal of both series, as well as his work with such legends as David Janssen, Burt Reynolds, John Frankenheimer and Stanley Kubrick. The interview begins 30 minutes into the first hour and continues into the second hour . Monday-Sunday 10pm-Mid...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Carl Erik Rinsch to direct samurai epic
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
In this amusing, intelligent, well-acted picture, Paul Giamatti, playing a troubled actor called Paul Giamatti currently appearing in Uncle Vanya , goes to a New York surgery called Soul Storage and exchanges his soul for that of a Russian artist. It's a combination of the Faust legend, John Frankenheimer's Seconds and Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich , but curiously flimsy. Philip French guardian.co.uk...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
There are several things that a person will probably think while watching the 1972 thriller The Mechanic and these include: 1. Charles Bronson was American cinema's ultimate badass. 2. Michael Winner is one of the most underrated directors in recent memory. 3. The lengthy and almost silent opening sequence is one of the seventies best. 4. Keenan Wynn's reputation as one of the finest character actors...
Impossible Kisses (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
UK starts study on using human DNA in animals * Right this second I don’t have anything new prepared to say about chimeras , but I wanted to post this story because it’s kind of a follow-up to a story I posted last year in When We Meet Monsters . * People who follow conspiracy theories often take it as a kind of truism that any cutting-edge science we read about in the mainstream press...
Brokedown Palace (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Spending actual money on this. The Golden Age of Television Synopsis The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed,...
EphBlog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The Williamstown Film Festival begins today! Lots of interesting events in the line-up, but this one stands out for me: WFF returns to MASS MoCA on Friday night, October 30th with La Nave de Los Monstruos (The Ship of Monsters), a Mexican sci-fi musical in which Venusian women land on Earth in search of men. Ethel, [...]
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Last Saturday in Manhattan, the handsomer-than-a-hundred-moviestars moviestar, James Franco, before racing over to the SNL set to simply sit in on a sketch and do nothing, gave a talk to fans and students at the New Yorker Festival , where, among other things, he revealed that he still has the prosthetic penis he wore in Milk and has since used it as a mask in another movie. But among those other...
Wrinkled Weasel's World (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
At Interlagos, the venue for the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix, Jensen Button fianlly joined the ranks of British Championship winners after winning what was a classic, and quite interesting race. And so it's over for another year (apart from what amounts to a parade race in Abu Dhabi) Years ago, I saw a movie called, simply, Grand Prix (1966). Directed by John Frankenheimer, it caused a stir because...
Kid Breaks (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
'Cruisin' from the 1983 album 'Mach 1' by obscure French space disco/Italo outfit Grand Prix, released on Savoir Faire/Carrere. Grand Prix - Cruisin Grand Prix on Discogs Image is a still from the 1966 film 'Grand Prix' directed by John Frankenheimer.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Obituary: Producer made headlines in Paramount lawsuit -- Producer and literary agent Alain Bernheim, who famously sued Paramount with Art Buchwald, died of bacterial meningitis Oct. 3 in Paris. He was 86.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
David Sirota has written a great essay called "Who are "the deciders"?" In it, he lays out both the basic Republican "Obama had better do...
One Utah (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
I wondered how long it would take the right-wingers to call for President Obama’s impeachment. They surprised me by bringing it up even before the inauguration. Now we’re on to more drastic fantasies. Via Media Matters: Newsmax columnist John Perry asserts Obama “is inviting” a “[m]ilitary intervention.” Perry wrote, “There is a remote, [...]
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Filed under: Classics , Japan First generation Mazda Miata - Click above to see entire list of future Japanese Collector Cars "Everybody wants to go to the dance, no one wants to stay and clean up." So says Robert De Niro's Sam in John Frankenheimer's spy thriller/car porno Ronin . We mention the line, because it's not only well written, but nicely sums up most people's attitudes towards...
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