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...
"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...
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...
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.
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....
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"...
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...
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...
'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:...
Adolescent gang flicks, coming of age stories, teen rom coms... Ever since Nicholas Ray's REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE or so, movies about the trials and tribulations of teenagers have been a dime a dozen. So why talk about one of the most over saturated sub-genres in cinema history yet again?
Nicholas Ray 's BORN TO BE BAD is prime soap opera, performed by a top cast. It's a tremendously enjoyable piece of entertainment. Christabel Caine (Joan Fontaine) arrives in San Francisco to stay with her cousin Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) while taking a secretarial course. Christabel and Donna have never met, and although at first Christabel is all sweetness and light, Donna becomes increasingly uneasy...
(By Ely Portillo, elyportillo@charlotteobserver.com) A motorcycle wreck in northwest Mecklenburg left one man dead Tuesday evening. Nicholas Ray Bussie, 28, was driving a 2005 Honda motorcycle outbound on Brookshire Boulevard about 6:30 p.m., according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. Joyce Todd Marsh, 66, tried to drive a Kia sedan across Brookshire at Old Plank Road, and Bussie lost control of his...
From the vaults of Columbia Pictures The Best of Columbia Noir – September 17th through 30th By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka FILM NOIR returns to San Francisco’s Roxie Theaterr with a vengeance! This past May, audiences were treated to two full weeks of rare B noirs as part of the “I Wake Up Dreaming” [...]
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