Timbuktu (1959): Jacques Tourneur’s Adventure, Starring Victor Mature and Yvonne de Carlo
In one of his last assignments, Jacques Tourneur directed Timbuktu, an adventure starring Victor Mature and Yvonne de Carlo.
Directors: Definition of Filmmaking as Profession
Margarethe Von Trotta: “Talent is something, but what it really takes is perseverance and not giving up too easily.”
In the Heights: Right Movie at Right Time
The movie is one big block party, thrown in honor of the Latino immigrant experience.
Hot Blood: Nicholas Ray’s Melodrama, Starring Jane Russell and Cornel Wilde
Nicholas Ray directed Hot Blood a Technicolor musical, starring Jane Russell and Cornel Wilde.
Golden Globes: New Scandals of Already Embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)
“Payments for internal jobs have skyrocketed lately. Morally and fiscally this self-dealing and sense of entitlement is a scandal in and of itself. But the lack of transparency goes beyond just the financials: since February most decision-making has happened behind closed doors.”
Longtime Companion (1990): Narrative Structure (Chapters, Events, Characters)–Full Cast and Credits
Longtime Companion carried the burden of being the first major theatrical movie to deal directly with the worst plague in American history. sadly, its talented director, Norman Rene, died of AIDS.
American History: January 6, 2021–Capitol Storming, Washington DC
American History: January 6, 2021–Capitol Storming, Washington DC
Asia (2020): Ruth Pribar’s Israeli Melodrama of Mother and Daughter, Well Acted by Shira Haas
Pribar’s character-tale story is elevated above the level of a routine and familiar melodrama by the two actresses who play the leads.
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Incitement: Israeli Yaron Zilberman’s Dramatic Thriller about 1993 Assassination of Premier Rabin
Israeli filmmaker Yaron Zilberman follows up A Late Quartet with Incitement, a recreation of the days leading up to Orthodox Jewish law student Yigal Amir’s assassination of then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for his role in the Oslo peace process.