...an endless banquet (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
1. Bright Star , dir. Jane Campion 2. Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone 3. red beans + rice 4. red flannel hash fig. a: On Dangerous Ground 5. On Dangerous Ground , dir. Nicholas Ray fig. b: Border Incident 6. Border Incident , dir. Anthony Mann 7. Dirk Bogarde, A Particular Friendship 8. King of Hearts Drink Book (1955) + Esquire Party Book (1965) 9. The Best of Everything , dir. Jean Negulesco fig....
In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Starring Penelope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portilla, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave, Lola Duenas, Angela Molina
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The St. Louis International Film Festival has kept me busy, so I'm just now getting around to posting the February Criterion additions, which were announced on Friday. Through IFC, Steve McQueen's Hunger will make its way to DVD and Blu-ray; Max Ophüls' Lola Montès will be upgraded from the old (lousy) Fox Lorber disc on DVD and Blu-ray; Janus Films' first-run release of Götz Spielmann's...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Bela Tarr The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache The...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray's bizarre and operatic Western, can be read in many different way- as a feminist struggle between two women, as a freudian film about the paradoxes of sexual desire, as an attack on McCarthyism or as a discussion of art and masculinity. Watching it last night though one thing struck me more than anything. For those who do not know Johnny Guitar is the hero of a film in which...
The Waco Tribune-Herald - News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The following people were indicted Wednesday by a McLennan County grand jury:
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
"There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforward there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray." - Jean-Luc Godard I watched Johnny Guitar last night and all I have to say is - let the gushing begin. Seriously, Johnny Guitar is what cinema was and still should be. Combining Ray's unique talent for visually luscious filmmaking...
Talking Pictures (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Two years before Vincente Minnelli gave Hollywood egos the high-gloss, seductively appealing treatment in “The Bad and the Beautiful,” director Nicholas Ray examined a related bunch of strivers and venal, self-interested characters in the great 1950 noir-cum-confessional, “In a Lonely...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Obituary: Producer made headlines in Paramount lawsuit -- Producer and literary agent Alain Bernheim, who famously sued Paramount with Art Buchwald, died of bacterial meningitis Oct. 3 in Paris. He was 86.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
There's just something clenched and curious in Ben Foster's features, and maybe in Foster himself. All kinds of currents seem to be running through the guy, like he's thinking about pulling a gun or something. I know...that's his selling point, his edge. But I don't think he can do much else. I don't think he has it in him to play sedate or easygoing, much less serene....
Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
For anybody who thinks "movie music" is inherently lightweight stuff, they need to listen to Bernard Herrmann -or Elmer Bernstein, Alex North, Max Steiner, and others. Here's Hermann's exciting, frightening cue The Death Hunt, from 1952's "On Dangerous Ground". As good as the others mentioned were, Herrmann was the best-no wonder Hitchcock used him so often. "On Dangerous Ground"...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Before he hit the road in Easy Rider, the actor spent years photographing Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Paul Newman. VIEW HIS GALLERY of art icons during their prime. A Hollywood legend, Dennis Hopper has appeared in countless acting roles...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
TimeOut Magazine, which knows -- like we do -- that nothing attracts more page views than a decent list, has put together one more comprehensive than what we're usually capable of, what with our soft hipster brains and cynical view...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
'VH1 DIVAS': Kelly Clarkson is slated to perform on the concert special at 9 p.m. on VH1. SERIES NYC: Inside Out: This new series debuts with a look at the transportation systems of the Big Apple (7 p.m. Discovery). Survivor:...
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