Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Found via Orrin Judd, Lloyd Billingsley, who previously wrote "Hollywood's Missing Movies", which featured a plot summary of Total Eclipse, the greatest film Hollywood will never make, has a review of the new hagio-documentary, Trumbo:Capitalism is evil and America is...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE MUTINOUS clouds of August can't subdue the beauty of this place . . . the graceful trees; the mature garden; the gurgling stream; the fuchsia and prince's feathers of the hedgerows; the stone walls of the west of Ireland.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Manny Farber, painter, brilliant writer, indelible critic and all-round original whom some aped and few grazed, died in his sleep last night at the age of 91.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
No 28: Humphrey Bogart 1899-1957
Good News Film Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
A classic of American cinema and probably the best screenplay that has ever been written. Toss in masterful direction from pedophile Roman Polanski and brilliant performances by John Huston, Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson and you have every reason there is to make this a must see if you've never viewed it. Return to the Movie Trailer Page Click to see other films from Paramount Pictures Screenwriter:...
jürgen fauth's muckworld (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
It’s no secret that I love Star Wars — and not just “the old ones” but all six movies: their mythic scope, their conceptual and visual inventiveness, the cheesy characters and blunt dialogue, the structural complexity, the joy they take in speed and color. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the all-new animated Star Wars adventure, [...]
normblog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
David Boland was born in Lancashire in 1946. He studied at Leeds University from 1964 to 1967. After four years as a schoolteacher in East London and Blackpool he joined the Civil Service in London, where he remained until his...
FilmStew.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Canadian film critic John Foote’s analysis of The Man With Much Hollywood Game won’t be out until December, but already, the debate has begun.
The First Post (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
For sceptics who wonder just how straight the judging of this or that famous prize is, the English actor Dirk Bogarde has just blown the whistle from beyond the grave,…
Everything Has A Limit (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Only the power of LJ could remind me that it was Geoff's birthday today, thus allowing to share a happy event with Neil Armstrong, Barbara Flynn and (were they not dead), John Huston and The Elephant Man. Falling off to sleep last night at 8.30 in the evening was predictably disastrous. I woke up at 10.15 and then didn't get back to sleep until about 1.15 in the monring -- not good when the alarm is...
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, Hong Kong… Today’s Highlights in History See a larger version of this front page. On August 5, 1963 the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater. (Go to article.) On Aug. 5, 1906, John Huston, the American motion-picture director, [...]
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Crews continued to fight the Cascade fire Sunday near Red Lodge, but are increasingly optimistic that the fire is coming under control. Helicopters and hotshot crews spent the day battling spot fires west of the Red Lodge Mountain Ski Resort. Fire man ...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
(1981) Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine star in John Huston's sporting wartime drama as POWs in Germany.
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Herman Melville was born on this day in 1819. Moby-Dick is one of my all-time favorite books (my essays and excerpts are linked at the bottom of this post) - so I figured I wouldn't just re-hash that old...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Ted Hope forwarded this link to a fantastic list of "Top 10 Great Movies That Were Never Finished" over at List Universe. Of course, the term "great" is one of almost philosophical speculation as opposed to qualitative judgement. How can a film be great if it was never completed and viewed by an audience? Looking at it from another way, though, films create memories and desires in us long after
