Travel (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
By Francisca Britt Some film reviews are listed below. You can use a search engine to find movie download sites. You can find good results with by searching "DVD Movie Online Rental", "Download Films" and "Best Music Download Sites". Forsaking all Others: Gable is just back from Spain and is getting ready to propose to Crawford only to learn she's set to wed flaky Montgomery....
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
“A press agent is many things, most of them punishable by law.”—Film director Harry Dawes (played by Humphrey Bogart), in The Barefoot Contessa , written and directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz (1954) This is one of those near-great films about the movie industry, filled with the kind of insider knowledge and pungent, Shavian lines that only Mankiewicz ( A Letter to Three Wives , All...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
USA Feature Film Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mary Orr Cinematographer: Milton Krasner Composer: Alfred Newman Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter Mankiewicz’s brilliantly bitchy look at the insecurities, egos, and ignoble ambitions of a bunch of...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Conspiracy theorists of all stripes have hypothesized for years about the CIA's influence through political revolutions, propaganda, and the manipulation of politicians. One writer has uncovered the government agency's shady influence on classic novel adaptations as well. Author Hugh Wilford 's new book, "The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America" reveals how the CIA influenced popular...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ Joseph Mankiewicz’ wittily scripted, innovatively structured survey of distaff marital life at the brink of the Eisenhower...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
Screened July 11 2009 on 20th Century Fox DVD in Brooklyn NY TSPDT rank #957 IMDb Wiki Joseph Mankiewicz’ wittily scripted, innovatively structured survey of distaff martial life at the brink of the Eisenhower era pits three middle class wives against an impossible feminine ideal. Addie Ross, the omniscient, goddess-like narrator who opens the film with withering [...]
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
74 votes Citizen Kane (1941) _Orson Welles Vertigo (1958) _Alfred Hitchcock 64 votes 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) _Stanley Kubrick 57 votes The Godfather (1972) _Francis Ford Coppola 55 votes Casablanca (1942) _Michael Curtiz 52 votes The Third Man (1949) _Carol Reed 49 votes Taxi Driver (1976) _Martin Scorsese 48 votes Seven Samurai (1954) _Akira Kurosawa Psycho (1960) _Alfred Hitchcock 47 votes Dr....
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
So here's my list, in random order and embarrassingly U.S.-centric: Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz Gone With the Wind (1939) .. Victor Fleming Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock West Side Story (1961) .. Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise Cabaret (1972) .. Bob Fosse The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather: Part...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
filmcritic.com Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) .. William Wyler Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz Fiddler on the Roof (1971) .. Norman Jewison The Bank Dick (1940) .. Edward F. Cline It's a Gift (1934) .. Norman Z. McLeod Tillie and Gus (1933) .. Francis Martin Doctor Zhivago (1965) .. David Lean An...
ßench (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Up until the 60's ,whole Northern industrial towns would close down for their annual Wakes Week . The towns (in my case Halifax) would become something akin to ghostlike.....The factory chimneys would stop belching black smoke.You could actually see a hilltop view rather than a smog blanket.... Ironic..... the healthiest+calmest time to live in the town was when everybody else had buggered-off to...
film [FAN-attic] ... (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
dir: joseph l. mankiewicz / usa, 1950. bette davis, anne baxter, george sanders ... summary : an ending which presents a beginning; a fading star of the 'boards' is being watched by an ardent fan [come, would-be usurper]; things are in flux: they transpire, evolve, reconfigure and resolve, but with a twist. this 1950's masterpiece, is a stark reminder of the potency and majesty of hollywood's former...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Prior to saluting fathers far and wide later this month, why not pop in some first-rate DVD titles that examine the distinct challenges of fatherhood,...
mondomedeusah électronique (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
AN EVENING CELEBRATING THE GIFT OF THE JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ PAPERS TO THE ACADEMY'S MARGARET HERRICK LIBRARY. HOSTED BY FILM CRITIC BEN MANKIEWICZ. FEATURING A...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
We’re a little under the weather today, so it’s late and light, but we had to make mention of this Not Comics obit: the legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff has died at age 94: An Oscar winner for Black Narcissus, in 1948, Cardiff’s career as cinematographer spanned an astonishing eight decades, with his career in films going [...]
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