Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Last week's installment, #5, here. Follow the links at that post to access the other prior films in the series. Farber: "An adroit, scholarly example of sound storytelling that every Message Boy should be made to study as an example...
Ivoland! (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Movie: The Great Escape (1963) “Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners of war are all put in an ‘escape ...
The Beard Trio (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
from the Daily Telegraph 10 The Bridge on the River Kwai The lavish production that launched Lean into the big league is grand, grown-up and full of eye-popping set pieces and moral complexity. 9 The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich, 1967 Real-life former marine Lee Marvin has to mould 12 convicted murderers into a crack unit to assassinate a slew of SS officers. Entertaining sparring leads to a dark climax....
Ivoland! (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Movie: The Magnificent Seven (1960) “A bandit terrorizes a small Mexican farming village each year. Several of the village elders send three of the farmers into ...
CHILD OF TELEVISION (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Actor William Schallert (Get Smart, The Patty Duke Show)joins Ed and Frankie in the second hour to discuss his many roles in film and television, including his work with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Sturges and Don Siegel. In the first hour , Ed and Frankie welcome TV historian Andrew Lee Fielding , author of The Lucky Strike Papers . as they look back at the career of bandleader Kay Kyser ....
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
“The Great Escape” and “The Dirty Dozen” are among the “Inglourious Basterds” director’s choices.
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/21/entertainment/e033525D82.DTL Quentin Tarantino picks favorite WWII movies By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer Friday, August 21, 2009 LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- With his own World War II flick, "Inglourious Basterds," hitting theaters Friday, Quentin Tarantino applies his exhaustive knowledge of cinema to single out five favorite World War...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
"Inglourious Basterds," the new World War II movie from Quentin Tarantino, is a deeply frustrating film. At times — specifically, when Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine and his crew of Nazi-hunting Jews are on the screen — it's arguably the best picture of the year, full of the joy and verve and filmmaking prowess that has so marked Mr. Tarantino's best work. Unfortunately, Aldo the...
Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Kurosawa's Gojira (Godzilla) Movie Listening to Tank Riot's Akira Kurosawa episode we discovered that he was good friend with the Godzilla movie director. Kurosawa always wanted to direct a Godzilla movie but the studio was terrified of the monstrous costs that doubtless would be incurred. Rightfully so I am sure. Don't you know that if we worship God through our art, then Kurosawa immediately got...
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
NEW YORK, NY -- I was just told by staff there that the Paris and the Beekman (Formerly NY 1 + 2) Theaters have been leased to City Cinemas, and to look for a lot of changes...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Go away. Won't you leave? Please? What keeps you here, where you are not really welcomed? Is it strictly a matter of gravity, or is there some failure to understand directions, as well? Why won't you go? Oh, you're here to get something from me, are you? And, as if I couldn't guess... what is it you want from me? A reading. Right. And, if I give you this, will you up and go? Oh, joy, oh, rapture! Here...
TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Catch this film tonight: The Magnificent Seven
SLANTblog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
War movies are another cup of tea, when it comes to making a list. Most of the best war movies, in my book, have at least a hint of anti-war sentiment in them. Some might call it sanity; war isn’t just hell, it’s crazy hell. Still, to me a traditional war movie is about the quest to bravely fight through that crazy hell as part of a larger purpose. Whereas, an anti-war film is more about...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Your resident blogger is in the midst of his summer vacation, but decided to post during a pitstop at a relative's home. In the 1968 action thriller Ice Station Zebra , directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, US Marines and Soviet paratroopers face off at Drift Ice Station Zebra, on the polar ice pack, in their attempt to recover a film capsule ejected by a spy satellite. Four decades later...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
2. BBC 2 started its programming on 20 April, in which year? 1954, 1959 or 1964?
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