from the Daily Telegraph 10 The Bridge on the River Kwai The lavish production that launched Lean into the big league is grand, grown-up and full of eye-popping set pieces and moral complexity. 9 The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich, 1967 Real-life former marine Lee Marvin has to mould 12 convicted murderers into a crack unit to assassinate a slew of SS officers. Entertaining sparring leads to a dark climax....
DayStar Technlogies (DSTI), a struggling solar products company, this morning said its board “agreed to accept a notice to terminate” a previous agreement to combine the company with EPOD Solar Inc. DayStar said it will continue to pursue other financing options and strategic relationships. The company said it is continuing to [...]
SAN DIEGO, CA (MARKET WIRE) DayStar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSTI) ("DayStar"), a developer of solar photovoltaic products based on CIGS thin-film deposition technology, announced today that it has appointed Michael Matvieshen as Chief Executive Officer of Daystar Technologies. In anticipation of the closing of the EPOD Solar Inc., Daystar transaction announced on Monday, September 21,...
In the construction of this noir canon, I set myself two ground rules at the start: I would cover only the classical period from 1941 to 1958 and I would limit the selection to one film per director. Yet, as...
Author and anime critic Robert Aldrich has published a thorough treatise exploring the characteristics that make anime unique. Check out his article, DEFINING ANIME.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/21/entertainment/e033525D82.DTL Quentin Tarantino picks favorite WWII movies By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer Friday, August 21, 2009 LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- With his own World War II flick, "Inglourious Basterds," hitting theaters Friday, Quentin Tarantino applies his exhaustive knowledge of cinema to single out five favorite World War...
A series of clips inspired by guess which movie, starting with my favorite sixties war flick, Robert Aldrich’s brilliant, deeply cynical “The Dirty Dozen.” Here, mega-man-among-men Lee Marvin gets his first look at his new charges and shows John Cassavettes a little tough love.
Inglourious Basterds is a gorgeous, violent, beautifully acted, gut-punching, genre-blending jolt that doesn't make you want to scalp Nahtzies (as Brad Pitt's hillbilly Aldo...
"Five For Hell," "The Dirty Dozen," "Where Eagles Dare," "Black Book" and other films focus on rule-breaking tough guys using their expertise against the Nazis.
Summer season is drawing to a close, so what should we still be looking forward to before the bell strikes on New Years Eve? These are our 15 most anticipated new movies, 2009. Inglourious Basterds – released 21 August 2009 After the chop-socky…
by Ryland Walker Knight The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [Powell & Pressburger, 1943] # Despite the propaganda, there is a critical eye towards tradition. Love the conceit about Kerr playing three ladies, and Wolbrook's tenderness is perfect; Livesey's got stuffy down pat to the point where I don't know how much he's acting. The Flight of the Red Balloon [Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007] # A year later,...
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