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Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Today the Siren fulfilled the dearest dream of many a classic-film buff: Thanks to Jack Warner, New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick , and the wonders of email, she helped program a film series at Turner Classic Movies. Here's the TCM press release. This January (the Siren's birthday month, and what a present it will be), TCM is screening a month-long film series, Shadows of Russia . The selections...
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Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
I finished reading this book, lent to me by Jetta. It's amazing, considering how pinched the circumstances most people faced during the Depression, just how expansive and interesting a life that Briton Archibald Leach (aka Cary Grant) was able to fashion for himself, based on his grace (he started life in the circus as a stiltwalker), his physical conditioning, his fine acting talent, and his extraordinary...
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Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Charley Chase oblivious in Hello, Baby!, Leo McCarey, 1925. I wish I had more time to watch Charley Chase shorts. Maybe it's just a matter of discipline and time management. Either way. I wish.
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The Computers Blog (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
By Brandon Hurley For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. You can now save a trip to the video store and download movies right off the internet. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site. Di Donna: Agonizing domestic complications with a spouse of sixteen years old Giorgi, Manfredi gets to be infatuated with a nude rear view...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Over the course of earning a degree in Cinema Studies, I'll be honest with you; I hardly ever got to watch the kind of movies that I liked. Call me lowbrow if you must, but remember, I'm talking about my university years, and getting up at eight AM to watch Berlin: Symphony of a Great City wasn't the best way to nurse a hangover. Don't get me wrong, I learned plenty and I was happy for the chance...
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FeckenOdeon Films (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
1933 - Dir.: Leo McCarey Shown at The FeckenOdeon on September 29th, 2001 - our opening film. "Duck Soup" is a fast moving anarchic satire. It lampoons the posturing of blundering dictators, fascism and authoritarian government. It proved a hot political potato for Paramount in the nervous period before WW2 - Mussolini banned it outright in Italy. The plot sees Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
The censors made the summer of 1934 unforgettably hot and uncomfortable for MAE WEST . Famously funny in her blockbuster Pre-Code motion picture comedies, Mae found her one-liners burnt to a crisp in a Will Hayes moment. The frisky screenplay that was conceived as " It Ain't No Sin " was considerably more scrubbed when it was delivered by August 1934 as a more demure " Belle of the...
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Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight A Matter of Life and Death [Powell & Pressburger, 1946] Gorgeous fantasy in delicious technicolor, weird-to-great propaganda. Nivens' charm is unending and the Cardiff-lensed images pool light in otherworldly ways, as you'd expect. The loveliest P&P theme is the beauty of the imagination, though it can spell peril, too, with actual consequence. The International [Tom...
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DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
Curated by David Kalat (of last year’s impressive Harry Langdon collection), “Becoming Charley Chase” draws primarily on the community of private collectors for an illuminating array of rare one and two reel comedies starring or directed by Charley Chase. Chase remains an underrated talent — a key figure in the transition from Sennett grotesque [...]
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Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
This two-disc set is basically the agony and the ecstasy from the collected works of film critic/scholar turned boy wonder writer-director-actor Peter Bogdanovich. Placed in reverse chronological and quality order, Disc One is 1975’s agonizing “Nickelodeon,” one of a series of box office and/or critical failures that ended the young director’s early career hot streak. [...]
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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....
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Francis Ford Coppola,
Frank Capra,
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Jean Renoir,
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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...
Explore : Akira Kurosawa,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Billy Wilder,
Buster Keaton,
Carl Theodor Dreyer,
Carol Reed,
Cinema,
David Lean,
F. W. Murnau,
Federico Fellini,
Francis Ford Coppola,
Frank Capra,
Fritz Lang,
Gene Kelly,
Ingmar Bergman,
Jean Renoir,
John Ford,
Joseph L. Mankiewicz,
Martin Scorsese,
Michael Curtiz,
Orson Welles,
Quentin Tarantino,
Ridley Scott,
Roman Polanski,
Sergio Leone,
Spike Lee,
Stanley Donen,
Stanley Kubrick,
Victor Fleming,
Vittorio de Sica,
Woody Allen,
Yasujiro Ozu
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composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Go away. Haven't you left yet? Why the heck not? What the heck is it that keeps you from going? Why the heck am I watching my language? Awww, heck. Please, won't you go? Why not? Oh, right, you came here for a reading, and you won't allow yourself to go without one. Well, if that's what it takes to get you the heck out of here, so be it. Here you are: You learn from your mistakes, and you have had...
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The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Most of the these films I’d go see whenever they screen, and I can also remember vividly exactly how and where I first saw them. I also realize that in making this list I’m drawn to films that are mysterious or complicated or even ugly—and funny, of course—in a way that only movies can get to. These are not ranked, but may be grouped by association. -Some entries have two comparable...
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Elaine May,
Ernst Lubitsch,
Howard Hawks,
Jacques Rivette,
Jacques Tourneur,
Jean-Luc Godard,
Jerry Lewis,
Max Ophüls,
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Philippe Garrel,
Raoul Walsh,
Stanley Kubrick,
Vincente Minnelli,
Wes Anderson
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