Girish (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
A New York Times article last week anointed Steve Jobs as an "auteur": Apple represents the “auteur model of innovation,” observes John Kao, a consultant to corporations and governments on innovation. In the auteur model, he said, there is a tight connection between the personality of the project leader and what is created. Movies created by powerful directors, he says, are clear...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Recommended THE MOVIE: It's kind of crazy to think that King Vidor was already a movie industry veteran when he made Wild Oranges in 1924, but he already had thirty directorial credits to his name and had been at it for more than ten years. Godard once famously declared that Nicholas Ray was cinema, and if that's the case, is it possible King Vidor was cinema's grandpappy? It's a facetious remark,...
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Nicholas Ray's first film They Live By Night , based on the same story as Robert Altman's later Thieves Like Us , is a tale of doomed romance between a desperate criminal and a simple, inexperienced country girl. It's a story as old as crime fiction, or even as old as time itself: the bad man who wants something better, who dreams of a "normal" life, and the girl who loves him even though...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
Since my last entry had some less-than-flattering commentary on the TSP1000 list, here’s a post that highlights some of the best movies I saw last year, all thanks to the TSP1000 . You can click on the respective titles to see what I wrote about each. Unfortunately it seems that each one is on a [...]
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
Kimberly Lindbergs of Cinebeats awarded me the "Kreativ Blogger" award. With the questionable spelling, part of me wants to file this in a corner with "Inglorious Basterds". But sometimes these awards serve a purpose of giving other bloggers a...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 01/12/2010
Kimberly Lindbergs of Cinebeats awarded me the "Kreativ Blogger" award. With the questionable spelling, part of me wants to file this in a corner with "Inglorious Basterds". But sometimes these awards...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
Displaying their strange penchant for indicating they know nothing whatsoever about movies but have all the good ones, TCM drops Nicholas Ray's sizzling sleeper PARTY GIRL amidst "Girl" movies like PLAY GIRL, PIN-UP GIRL and the like. But Ray's an artist not a prurient, and PARTY GIRL, though I don't remember all the details from when I saw it on a rented library VHS 8 years ago, is more...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 01/08/2010
gloria grahame defines the expression 'one of a kind.' her voice alone makes the head swim. aside from the strange fact of her marrying her stepson (fathered by her ex-husband director nicholas ray) gloria's grandfather reginald francis hallward gave Oscar Wilde the idea for 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.' get outta here! trust me, anything she did is worth seeing.
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 01/08/2010
director nicholas ray looking dandy. nic on james dean: 'the conflict between giving himself and fear of giving in to his own feelings; a vulnerability so deeply embedded that one is instantly moved, almost disturbed by it.' photo courtesy of tom sutpen
LAist (Free subscription) | 01/07/2010
Photo by jasmith31 via LAist's flickr pool. NOHO It’s that time of the month, again: Hear NoHo , an evening of exploring the arts and new music scene in North Hollywood happens tonight from 6:30-11:30 pm at various galleries and locales. Listen to artists like: Melanie Silos, Alex Rhodes, Victoria Clemmons, Matthew Jordan, Drew Broadrick, John Daversa, Quiroga, The Twilight Girls and the Gene...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
Beginning NWFF's “Required Viewing” series of lectures and classes is an opportunity to hear all about the 1955 Rebel Without a Cause from its 88-year-old screenwriter, Seattle resident Stewart Stern. As directed by Nicholas Ray, James Dean plays the now iconic misunderstood te...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 12/31/2009
Lots of great movies are coming to Turner Classic Movies in January! ...The fun begins on New Year's Eve with a six-film marathon of the THIN MAN movies. Spending New Year's with Nick and Nora Charles is hard to beat. ...I'm especially looking forward to Fox's THE NORTH STAR (1943), with Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter, which is being shown as part of the month-long "Shadows of Russia" series...
Chained to the Cinémathèque (Free subscription) | 12/31/2009
The best films I saw for the first time in 2009, in rough order of preference: Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, 2009) To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008) Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2009) Che (The Argentine and Guerrilla) (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, 1934) Inextinguishable Fire (Harun Farocki, 1967) The Last...
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Free subscription) | 12/30/2009
In one half-hour from now, Turner Classic Movies will conclude its Star of the Month tribute to the gentleman who—if the votes were properly tallied and the machines weren’t manufactured by Diebold—is probably my favorite silver screen actor of all time. I’ve only missed recording two of the Bogart films shown this month: the previously mentioned Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 12/30/2009
My Christmas card from Masters of Cinema – Saint Nicholas Ray — boy he makes a scary Santa! But no doubt his sack bulges with multiple copies of that clockwork toy James Dean can be seen playing with in the opening credits of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Posted in FILM Tagged: Masters of Cinema, Nicholas Ray, Rebel [...]
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hillson003 | 12/09/2009
The only word that can be used for this super-duper movie, Broken Embraces is- “outstanding”. I wish I could have words, so that I could have explained all what I felt while watching this movie. It was a heavenly experience. So that I why I prefer you all to watch it as soon as possible.
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