Music The music is also a key element. I didn’t want the typical piano, which is how they show silent films at the Cinematheque. Alberto Iglesias suggested the idea of a quartet; I thought it ideal because if there’s one kind of composition which Alberto has mastered it’s the quartet. I have to confess I […]
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Joneses, The
March 22, 2010 by
The first feature of Derrick Borte, the German-born, American-educated actor and artist, “The Joneses” has a sharp, fiendishly clever premise weighed down by a tone and attitude that goes alternately too soft and too hard.
Stepfather: Then (1987) and Now (2009 Remake)
October 16, 2009 by
The new remake of "The Stepfather" (opening today, see review) is a dreadful slasher flick, which, by comparison, makes the 1987 original a classic of the first rank. Joseph Ruben's horror feature, an exploration of the dark underbelly of that most scared of American institutions, the nuclear family, was always a terrific film; the sequels that it spawned are not so good.
It's worth revisiting the 1987 movie for it tells us how much Hollywood's genre moviemaking has changed over the past two decades….
Stepfather, The (1987)
October 3, 2009 by
In "The Stepfather," Joseph Ruben explores the dark underbelly of that most scared of American institutions, the nuclear family, centering on a family man (wondrously played Terry O'Quinn), who moves from town to town, settles in with a fatherless family before slaying them.
Movie Stars: Mitchum, Robert–Hollywood Coolest (Anti) Hero
July 3, 2008 by
On January 23, 2006 Warner celebrates the career of a classic Hollywood anti-hero with the Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection featuring six new to DVD titles including Angel Face, Macao, Home from the Hill, The Sundowners, The Good Guys & the Bad Guys and The Yakuza. The Collection includes never-before-seen bonus footage, vintage featurettes and commentaries and includes such co-stars as Jane Russell, Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr and David Carradine in films directed by Sydney Pollack, Fred Zinnemann and Vincente Minnelli among others.
