Actors: Bette Davis as Influencer, Role Model
I’m sure I learned more from Bette Davis than anyone. She has enormous presence, a sense of surprise. She sets you up like a great boxer and BAM!
Film as Subversive Art: Tribute to Amos Vogel A Retrospective by the Austrian Film
In New York City, his new home, Vogel became one of the world’s most influential film curators: first as the founder of the Cinema 16 film society (1947-63), and later as the co-founder of the New York Film Festival (1963-68).
Backfire (1950): Vincent Sherman’s Film Noir, Starring Edmond O’Brien, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Viveca Lindfors
Vincent Sherman directed Backfire a crime film noir, starring Edmond O’Brien, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Viveca Lindfors, and Dane Clark.
Death in Hollywood: Chandler, Jeff–Back Injury (Malpractice), Died at 42
He died on June 17, 1961. The cause was a blood infection complicated by pneumonia.
Guy-Blache, Alice: Pioneering Filmmaker
There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no reason she cannot master every technicality of the art–Alice Guy-Blache
La Main du diable (The Devil’s Hand) (aka Carnival of Sinners): Maurice Tourneur Horror Noir, Starring Pierre Fresnay
Maurice Tourneur directed La Main du diable (“The Devil’s Hand”), a French horror film, starring Pierre Fresnay as struggling artist who acquires a supernatural talisman. Guests at isolated hotel, cut off by avalanche, are surprised when Roland Brissot, a man missing his left hand, shows up with only small casket. When he asks the innkeeper […]
P.J. (aka New Face in Hell): Guillermin’s Detective Thriller, Starring George Peppard (Homophobia, Gay-Bashing)
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Three Sailors and a Girl (1954): Del Ruth’s B-Musical, Starring Jane Powell and Gordon MacRae
From Our Archives Roy Del Ruth directed Three Sailors and a Girl, a Technicolor musical made by Warner. It was directed by and written by Devery Freeman and Roland Kibbee, based on the George S. Kaufman play “The Butter and Egg Man.” Ray Heindorf was the musical director, with orchestrations by Gus Levene, and vocal […]
On the Job: The Missing 8: Sprawling, Gripping Thriller About Filipino Corruption
Erik Matti’s three-and-a-half-hour thriller, On the Job: The Missing 8, is the prolific Filipino director’s Venice-competing sequel to the 2013 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title On the Job.
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Hollywood 2021: October-December Film Releases
October-December 2021 Film Releases In the next 70 days, we will be seeing over 90 films! OCTOBER Oct 1 THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2 (MGM) animated Oct 1 THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK (WB-New Line) by Alan Taylor: Michael Gandolfini, Leslie Odom Jr, Corey Stoll, Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta Oct 1 OLD […]