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,...
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, [...]
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...
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...
'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.
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.
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, [...]
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...
Our latest Netflix movie was SEVEN DAYS IN MAY, an excellent political suspense film. Kirk Douglas plays a colonel who uncovers a plan by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Scott (Burt Lancaster), to overthrow the Presidency and install himself in power. The great Fredric March plays the President of the United States, whose nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union has made...
Like Spa, Monza needs no introduction to race fans, so I do this only for completeness. The spiritual home of Ferrari, this 3.6-mile circuit is one of the fastest on the Formula 1 calendar. Maximum speeds are in excess of 210 mph down the long straightaways. The circuit used to be even more spectacular, with a high-speed banked oval and no chicanes. This original configuration can be seen in the film...
We’ve not had a good old-fashioned top ten in a little while and I thought the occasion of Giancarlo Fisichella achieving his life’s ambition by joining Ferrari for the Italian Grand Prix was worth marking. Here are ten of the best Italian driver to race for the prancing horse. Will we be counting Fisichella among them [...]
Back in January of last year I wrote an article for Giant Killer Squid (shameless self-promotion) entitled ' Hypofilmiacredentia ' in which I discussed the challenge and ultimate necessity of a film-blogger to name their top five favorite movies of all time. I ended the piece with, of course, my list which I still mostly stand by even if it is typical with the likes of Jaws and Rocky . Though I may...
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