Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jose here with the Monday Monologue. When nineteen year old Harold Chase (Bud Cort) meets seventy-nine year old Maude (Ruth Gordon) at a stranger's funeral, he has little idea of what she has in store for him. The eccentric lady shows him how to live, not in the corny sense we've come to see recently in movies about dying people, but in a more active way. She gets him out of his rich kid world (which...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site.
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Just watched Harold and Maude again, classic film. Bud Cort as Harold with his banjo dancing along the California cliffs made me think about my favorite dance scenes in movies (exluding musicals). For your consideration: 1. Some Like It Hot - Jack Lemon in drag and Joe E. Brown, as funny as it gets. Watch it and try not to laugh. 2. Witness - Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis dancing and romancing to...
LAist (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
"Cougar Town" is on at 9:30pm on ABC, thanks for this pic, Courteney There was some great TV on last night, with "Sons of Anarchy" continuing to get back on track after some silliness a couple weeks ago. On the more depressing side of things, "Frontline" continued to remind us that we are still riding a unicycle on the precipice of economic disaster. Look forward to more...
The Internet Business Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
By Saundra Valenzuela With a shop near every neighborhood, video stores have been the most convenient way to get movies for years. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site. Jack Be Nimble: Strange, smart little chiller in which the title personality is adopted into a family of bad people...
LAist (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Allee Willis is a lot of things - songwriter, artist, director, performer, hostess extraordinaire , and owner of a fab mid-centry modern home -- the list goes on. Personally, I love her for introducing me to Bud Cort and for writing "Boogie Wonderland". Just try to listen to that song and not boogie. Now Allee is taking on the internet. Her videos have already gone viral on YouTube, but...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
Hal Ashby's 1972 countercultural touchstone may now seem somewhat adrift, since that dominant, Nixon-era culture has disappeared. Suicidal Bud Cort falls for lively Ruth Gordon, each of them learning valuable life lessons along the course of their, ahem, romance. (They don't actually bridg...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Simon Augustine, M.Div [ The final installment, continued from "Part III" here. ] COMEDIES Harold and Maude : A Funny Take on "Sanity Is Not the Absence of Vibrancy" If in drama, the primary mode of audience participation is empathy—and in the horror film, it's vicarious escape achieved by moral extrapolation—then in comedy, the guiding principle...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
Hal Ashby with a Bud Cort-esque severed head. From Harold and Maude...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Forget asking 15 bands of the moment to soundtrack the new Hollywood blockbuster, the greatest collaborations are when a single songwriter tailors their music to suit a director's vision I was intrigued to hear that Jarvis Cocker is writing songs for Wes Anderson's new film The Fantastic Mr Fox. Anderson's soundtracks, which are created with the help of Randall Poster, are always much anticipated...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
You’d think a movie about a woman learning to accept the existence of love would spend some time exploring her purported inability to do so, but the scenes introducing Yi are beyond cursory. She performs alternative comedy, rolls with the Judd Apatow crowd, has parents and a best friend, and once thought a druggie was cute. That’s about all we know before she starts posing in wedding dresses...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Harold and Maude is a 1971 dark comedy/romance directed by Hal Ashby and starring Ruth Gordon , Bud Cort and Ellen Geer (who has a Star Trek connection ). The music is by Cat Stevens . The film is on several "top" lists, including 3 from the AFI . There's a Facebook page . It's online at Googlevideo: The New York Times doesn't like it. Roger Ebert doesn't like it either, saying, "Harold...
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
THAT was going to be my motto coming back from a short vacation in Key West. where they HAVE a classic theater (The Tropic). Showing art film, foreign films, documentaries. A city a fraction of our size. Granted, there are...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 04/05/2009
WASHINGTON POST: The news that former senator John Edwards is under federal investigation for possibly using campaign dollars as hush money for his mistress is simply the latest blow to a man who rose faster and fell harder than almost anyone in modern political history. The North Carolina Democrat acknowledged in a statement to the [...]
Strollerderby (Free subscription) | 31/03/2009
"Harold and Maude" didn't make a particularly huge splash at the box office when it was released back in 1971. But the quirky May-December ( really May-December) love story about an elderly woman (Ruth Gordon) and a jaded teen ( Bud Cort ) has since become a cult classic that influenced numerous filmmakers. Sadly, as many may recall, Gordon died in the mid-1980s. But everyone may not know...
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