COMING SOON AT THE BUNGAY FILM CLUB COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Coco Avant Chanel) (12A) Monday 25 January 2010 Director: Anne Fontaine. France 2009. 110 minutes. In French with English subtitles. Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola and Emmanuelle Devos. Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, began life as plain Gabrielle. The story of her ascent from orphanage to couturier is told in...
Michael Gough ( above ) was born 96 years ago today in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, and remarkably, he is still alive . An incredibly sly and versatile English character actor - equally at home reading the dialogue of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pinter, Berthold Brecht, or Jimmy Sangster (the principal scribe of Hammer horror) - Mr. Gough has worked with more good film directors than you can name - among them,...
This one comes straight from our collection of Free Online Movies. Beat the Devil is a 1953 classic directed by the great John Huston and co-written by Truman Capote, which stars Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, and Gina Lollobrigida. Not a bad lineup. It’s technically a noir film. But it’s really a dramatic comedy (or [...]
This is slightly old news (it happened while I was away on vacation), but a reader brought this to my attention this week so I thought I'd post it. As I posted a few months ago, the long-awaited DVD release of John Huston's beautiful final film "The Dead" was announced last summer for November 3. Sadly (and inexplicably), Lionsgate managed to botch the release, putting out a version of the...
This is a bold and high-minded stab at the ultimate unfilmable book, writes Peter Bradshaw In 1967, the American film-maker Joseph Strick took a bold and high-minded stab at the ultimate unfilmable book: Joyce's Ulysses. Inevitably, it's a disappointment, though watched again now for this rerelease, it doesn't seem as much of a disappointment as all that. Milo O'Shea gives a very decent performance...
I'm sure everyone has a favorite movie. Mine is The Dead which was John Huston's last film. It is just a lovely, beautiful movie based on James Joyce's novella of the same name. I read Dubliners years ago and The Dead has always stayed with me. Joyce is normally hard to read, but that collection is very accessible and well, here, just read this lovely last paragraph : "A few light taps upon the...
In the drive towards Rome in the winter of 1943-44 the U.S. Army fought a brutal campaign against a dug in and stubborn German enemy. Between 8-17 December 1943 the 36th Infantry Division attacked and eventually took the village of San Pietro . A month later Allied forces reached the German Gustav and the campaign to take Monte Cassino began. The battle of San Pietro would, no doubt, be just a small...
Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924) : Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she is perhaps best known for being a film noir leading lady opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and John Huston's melodramatic suspense film Key Largo (1948). ... Born in New York City, Bacall was the only child of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a secretary who later...
Exhausted from our bout with Elsa Morante , the Mr. and Mrs. Buce reading club needed a lightener. We chose Dashiell Hammetet's Maltese Falcon . It was good fun, and instructive. It is easy to see how he is a pivotal figure in the history of detective fiction: discontinuous with Sherlock Holmees, a precursor to (but not as good as) Philip Marlowe. Considering the cachet he acquired via Lillian Hellman,...
Michael Gira sat across the table at a quiet Brooklyn bar on a rainy Wednesday night. The conversation had settled on a mutual hero, Werner Herzog. “There’s such a theme in his films of the quixotic character going out against nature,” Gira said. “And that’s how he does it personally, too. He’s the last of the great hero artists, like Joseph Beuys, or John Huston.”...
Who played Captain Jacoby (the guy who staggers in with the falcon) in the John Huston version of The Maltese Falcon? Highlight the area below for the answer: Veteran actor Walter Huston, the director’s father
Yes, this is a rip-off of Jaws , with a giant octopus in place of a great white. But isn't Jaws itself a rip-off of Moby Dick, with the shark being less a natural creature than a supernatural one embodying our collective fears about nature, the return of the repressed and all that? Wasn't making rip-offs what the filone cinema was all about anyway? Now you see him... Now you don't Another early victim...
Danse Macbre by Stephen King Forgotten? Nothing by Stephen King is forgotten. I imagine that virtually if not literally everything he's published is in print. That said, even some readers of his horror novels may have passed this one by. Not everybody is inclined to read a long overview of the horror field but they should because this is one of the most articulate, occasionally eloquent overviews of...
Six images from UNDER THE VOLCANO ~ Love how Huston’s director credit appears over a lookalike skull. But then, ALL skulls look a bit like John Huston, just as all monkeys do. The signature image, Albert Finney’s shades. Malcolm Lowry’s book was often described as “unfilmable,” and I’m not sure Huston found a way in. A drunken [...]
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