Broken Embraces
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
Vincente Minnelli
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"Frank Sinatra is downright fascinating — or what the youngsters would probably call 'cool'..."
Althouse (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
"... He is beautifully casual with a bottle, bullseye-sharp with a gag and shockingly frank and impertinent in making passes at dames." From the 1959 NYT review , written by Bosley Crowther, of the movie "Some Came Running," which is playing here in Madison tonight, and on the list of things we might do. Here's the 50s-era disrespect for the stuff I assume is the reason the cinemaphiles...
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50 Films (2500 maximum)
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...
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Scenes We Love: The Band Wagon
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
We have television to thank for a serious dance renaissance. TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars have introduced a new generation to the joys of the samba, the waltz, and the quickstep, while High School Musical (and now, Glee ) brought song-and-dance production numbers back into vogue. Suddenly it seems like the world's gone dance crazy. Of course, geeks like me, who...
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Some Good DVD News For a Change
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Criterion's February announcements include, at long last, a DVD of Leo McCarey's masterpiece Make Way For Tomorrow , as well as a DVD and Blu-Ray of Max Ophuls' Lola Montes. The McCarey disc doesn't have as many special features as it deserves, though in this case I'm OK with Peter Bogdanovich being interviewed, since he was one of the few people who ever interviewed McCarey. And any McCarey-centric...
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About That Old Brownstone...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Yesterday we posted an old photo of a lone brownstone located somewhere in the East 60s, which in 1959 was about to be demolished for a future development. So where was the brownstone when it met its end? Our commenters figured it out... good job! The building was at 215 East 68th Street . And some added bit of knowledge: the director of the 1960 film Bells Are Ringing , Vincente Minnelli, "wanted...
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The Band Wagon
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I bought this 2-disc edition of The Band Wagon for The Husband because it's his favorite movie of all time. I'd never seen it, and he suggested The Daughter and I watch it with him tonight. I think The Daughter and I are still amazed that this, of all movies, is his favorite. It does have Cyd Charisse in it, and it seems to be universally well-loved but still... We just don't get it. The Band Wagon...
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The mask!
Talking Pictures (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Halloween, 1903. "Meet Me in St. Louis," directed by Vincente Minnelli. In today's Talking Pictures column I take a trip down Memory Lane, which is located at the intersection of Racine, Wisconsin and Seasonal Nostalgia and involves scaring the pants...
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10 Halloween treats for home viewers
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here are 10 classic movies that aren't necessarily scary, but reflect the time of the year.
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Viewing Log #16: Flight, he says, from a box [10/12/09 - 10/18/09]
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —We all find the flux different, we bloom As I noted before , things will be changing around VINYL IS HEAVY while we close out the calendar. I'll still try to keep these viewing log posts popping up on the regular along with the Vitti posts , and there will be a few link-thru posts to stuff written for other places (read: Danny), but otherwise I'll be focusing my energy...
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Haunted By Bing Crosby and Judy Garland
Dreamtime - Commentary Inspired By Bob Dylan's Theme... (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
If you hadn't noticed, "Christmas in the Heart" was officially released in the U.S. last Tuesday. Before we overdosed on the nth review that tried to come up with a new analogy for the effect of Dylan's ravaged voice on the listener's ears, Dreamtime skimmed through somewhere around 50 of them... almost all uninspired whether the writer was for the album or ag'in it. In our opinion, one...
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That's Liza with an eye for young Idol James
The Herald (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
NEWCASTLE Australian Idol contestant James Johnston found himself staring into the large of eyes of Liza Minnelli while preparing for tomorrow night's show.
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Ten Years of Fight Club
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Fight Club hit theaters ten years ago today. The film was critically divisive, struggled with the right marketing, and had a lukewarm run at the box office. But then came the overstuffed two-disc Special Edition DVD, complete with a fake-cardboard slipcase. It was exactly the right kind of gorgeously overproduced fetish object demanded by the
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'In a Lonely Place' -- new print at the Music Box!
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...
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A vivid portrait of the much-depicted Van Gogh
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Two IMAX films, the documentary "Van Gogh: Brush With Genius" and "The Old Man and the Sea" (Academy Award winner for best animated short of 1999), are playing at the Pacific Science Center.