Charlie Rose with Ronald Brownstein; Dan Balz; Helen Gurley Brown; Stanley Donen (February 2, 1996)
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
After surprising fans by taking on an adaptation, one based on a children's book and shot using an old style of stop-motion animation, Wes Anderson is not about to shock anyone with future film plans. But can you imagine what it'd look like if the man behind "Rushmore and "The Royal Tenenbaums" made a science [...]
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Bob Fosse as the Snake in Stanley Donen's 1974 movie musical adaptation of The Little Prince [available in low-res original and Billie Jean mashup versions, because why not? via maud] which was not, in fact, filmed in the same location...
Green Integer Blog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Charley and Terry in deep discussion George Abbott and Richard Bissell (book, based in Bissell's novel 7 1/2¢ ), Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (music and lyrics) The Pajama Game / New York, St James Theatre, May 13, 1954 Budd Schulberg (writer) (based, in part, by articles by Malcolm Johnson), Eliza Kazan (director) On the Waterfront / 1954 George Abbott and Richard Bissell (based on Bissell's...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The 1967 film "Two for the Road," directed by Stanley Donen, written by Frederic Raphael, starring Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn, is a glorious work of art. Stylish, witty, multifariously funny, it memorably takes up the theme of love and marriage. It is certainly one of the highlights of Raphael's long and distinguished career as a writer. Someone at Commentary -- my guess is editor...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
halfway house halfway through the day, we stop a movie 'bout halfway through... what do we see? As you may have noticed, I tend to get hung up on film structures and timing. Not sure why but I live for opening scenes, I'm totally enthralled by filmmakers who can stick landings (i.e. the ending -- so difficult) and sometimes I just get hung up on random timed ideas like 20:07, first and last or Halfway...
[helix] (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
One forgets how street [sounds]. Somewhere a sentence is being spoken. Somewhere there are many sentences, mouths we don't know, and somewhat. Light, roping. A day crossing bridges in old automobiles. Doors dented inwards and noticeably. Poetry is eaten, and baklava. *** Please join THE ST. MARK'S BOOKSHOP READING SERIES on Thursday, October 1st for a reading to celebrate the publication of A BEST...
Final Cut (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Since I saw Synecdoche, New York I've been thinking about directorial debuts. Some of the great ones have shown directors peaking too early whereas others have been the start of a successful career. Again, the following list only shows the films I have seen so there is no Sean Penn or Quentin Tarantino here The newbies (those who have recently debuted) The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy, 2003) Gone,...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Wherever he is up in Showbiz Valhalla -- no doubt helping out some hapless previous arrival on a rewrite -- Larry Gelbart has to be secretly delighted, reading all the good notices he's received since his death late last week...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
An important chunk of entertainment history left us yesterday with the death of Larry Gelbart at 81. Gelbart was gifted both working alone and as a collaborator with other writers. It probably helped that relatively early in his career he labored alongside Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon on comedian Sid Caesar’s [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Lauren Bacall made one of the greatest debuts in film history. In 1944's "To Have and Have Not," she told Humphrey Bogart's character, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow."...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
An important chunk of entertainment history left us yesterday with the death of Larry Gelbart at 81. Gelbart was gifted both working alone and as a collaborator with other writers. It probably helped...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Lauren Bacall, cinematographer Gordon Willis and producer Roger Corman, were selected to receive honorary awards.
The Danettes (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Universal What a funky poster! The colours and the style is just amazing. Sophie Loren always rocks. She´s a real queen. I love Stanley Donen´s movies, but didn´t see this one. Did any of you see it? Later! Lady L
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
For the sake of not going on a tirade about you-kn0w-what, I'll just leave the awards section without any commentary. So here it is. Cannes , held 11-22 May 2005 Palme d'Or : L'enfant [d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne] Grand Prix : Broken Flowers [d. Jim Jarmusch] Prix du jury : Shanghai Dreams [d. Wang Xiaoshuai] Best Director : Michael Haneke - Caché Best Actor : Tommy Lee Jones - The...
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
By Edward Copeland When you think of them separately, just by the disparity of their film roles, there are few starker choices for romance than Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum, but that's the quandary Deborah Kerr finds herself in Stanley Donen's 1960 film of the play The Grass Is Greener . It is essentially a five-character comedy and the lightest of fare that would float away into nonexistence if...
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