atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In the 1930s, that glorious first decade after the movies learned how to talk, Hollywood was the sum of its studios, each with its own distinct brand and personality. MGM, the glossiest of them all, boasted that it had "more stars than there are in the heavens," which hardly seemed an exaggeration.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Happy Halloween! It's a grand day for mad doctors, deranged zoologists and cat people. If you want horrifying movies, Turner Classic Movies is a good place to turn. Here's what the channel will offer today: 8 a.m.: "Dead of Night"...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Victor Fleming Judy GarlandRay BolgerMargaret Hamilton In the beloved classic, a young girl from Kansas (Garland) finds herself in Oz, a colorful land of munchkins, flying monkeys, witches, talking trees, and catchy songs. It’s said that The Wizard of Oz has been seen more times than any other film. The story can be recited by the youngest of audiences: a hick orphan named Dorothy gets swept...
Tativille (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Spike Jonze's heavily anticipated, hipster Where the Wild Things Are , from a screenplay by Jonze and Dave Eggers , succeeds in nothing so much as the clarifying the substance of the director's authorship, thanks largely to Charlie Kaufman's absence in the film's pre-production (marking a first in the director's three feature career). Whereas both of Jonze's previous films supplied a distinctive sensibility...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Like Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, Serbian–born Slavko Vorkapich (1894-1976) was not only a filmmaker, but a respected film theorist, and like those two Soviet giants, Vorkapich’s theories were mainly about editing – the right and wrong ways to cut two shots together, the “kinesthetic” (physical) effects that could be produced in the viewer through montage....
Animated Views (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Comments on the wonderful Wizard Of Oz box set, South Park 's movie on Blu-ray, plus Tezuka Osamu's Astonishing Work reviewed!
scanners (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
If there's a (horror) movie that seems to exist outside of film history it's the strange case of "The Wizard of Oz," newly released in a 70th anniversary package on DVD and Blu-ray. It's credited to director Victor Fleming,...
FeckenOdeon Films (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
1939 - Dir: Victor Fleming Shown at The FeckenOdeon on 31st October, 2009 (Family matinee) First of all - rest assured that this film IS in colour. It starts out in black and white but after a few minutes all will be revealed. It’s just a little cinema magic trick - and there are plenty more to come! For those of us who have grown up knowing this film it seems impossible that it’s seventy...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The Daily Beast salutes an icon The Great and Powerful Oz Turns 70 Illustration - Everett Generations of children have dreamed about strolling down the Yellow Brick Road and wished for their very own Toto. Now 70 years after The Wizard of Oz first premiered, a special two-disc edition of the film is available on Blu-Ray (as well as regular DVD format) to mark the anniversary. No matter how many times...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
When I was a kid back in the late '60s and early '70s, I looked forward to four banner days every year: Christmas, my birthday, the first day of summer vacation, and the annual network airing of 'The Wizard...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
When it comes to movie classics, there is none more beloved than Victor Fleming’s 1939 musical, “The Wizard of Oz.” Based on the popular children’s book by L. Frank Baum, the film has been featured on numerous “best of” lists and continues to captivate people of all ages to this day. In celebration of its [...]
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
This week in the New York Times, a look at Warner Home Video’s shiny new Blu-ray edition of “The Wizard of Oz,” which includes a documentary on Victor Fleming among its copious extras, and and anti-climactic review of WHV’s no less handsome standard definition disc of John Ford’s superb “Wagon Master” — the latter a [...]
Movie Cross Rhodes (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Film Review #211: The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928/DVD 1999 Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Cast: Renee Maria Falconetti & others The idea of what makes a woman hero dates back at least to female medieval mystics, among them Joan of Arc, the illiterate French peasant girl whose “divine voices” told her to unite France, assist in the crowning of the young Charles VII and expel the English...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
The much-anticipated Wizard of Oz Blu-ray was waiting in the mail bin when I got home today from Toronto. I watched it start to finish, and then popped in the 2005 DVD version for comparison. The Blu-ray is much sharper and more vivid, and bursting with color in a natural-seeming, straight-from-the-Technicolor-lab, if-only-Victor-Fleming-could-have-seen-this sort of way. But it's also somewhat grainier....
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
The great American novel, and a super flick too.
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