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...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here are 10 classic movies that aren't necessarily scary, but reflect the time of the year.
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...
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...
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.
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
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...
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.
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Why do I love TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN so much? Why do I feel like I could watch it over and over again? What is it about this movie that stands out for me? Is it because it displays that ultimate fantasy of being trapped in the decadent glamour of Rome in the early 60s? Is it because the film, directed by Vincente Minnelli with all the style he is famous for (in CinemaScope and Metrocolor), is so...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The lovely Leslie Caron will be honored as the October Star of the Month at Turner Classic Movies. 16 Caron films will be shown on Monday evenings, along with a PRIVATE SCREENINGS interview with Robert Osborne recorded in 1999. Monday, October 5th, is an especially notable evening as it features Caron's AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) and GIGI (1958), which each won the Best Picture Oscar; the memorable...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —Money talks Ashes of Time Redux [WKW, 1994/2008] Started this a couple nights prior but was gladly interrupted by two fun-loving phone calls. Started over, fitting WKW, and felt the slow-mo, loss-hardened fronts enough; the fights were fun flurries of blur and I dig the literal adventure of perception with "the good" Tony Leung, but I get why, um, certain friends...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
George Hamilton burst on the scene in the final days of Old Hollywood - one of his first credits was Vincente Minnelli's "Home From the Hill" (1960). He soon embodied all the fashion-plate allure of big-studio stardom with his own glints of humor and hedonism. He learned the studios' lessons about swank, verve and glamour without swallowing them whole. Irony became him - and becomes him....
CHROMA (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Bigger Than Life By Jeffrey Escoffier Published by Running Press Reviewed by Kevin Killian Jeff Escoffier writes with ease and efficiency on a subject upon which hardly anybody has a handle: gay porn and the films that emerged from photographic studio practice in the 1960s. As history, Bigger than Life is as sprawling as its subject, for commercial porn as we know it today comes from multiple sources...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Liza Minnelli played the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, and the incessant gigglers in the audience were clearly nervous about which Minnelli was going to show up. Would it be the one whose latest Broadway outing, Lizas at the Palace, won a Tony or the erratic Minnelli of Minnelli on Minnelli, the show in honor of her director father, Vincente Minnelli, in which she tried to make another one of her comebacks...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
Liza Minnelli played the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, and the incessant gigglers in the audience were clearly nervous about which Minnelli was going to show up. Would it be the one whose latest Broadway outing, “Liza’s at the Palace,” won...
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