TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
My second film in my Yesterday’s Films, Today’s Issues series is going to be another Elia Kazan film (there was recently a Kazan retro in NYC ). Kazan’s Wild River is a beautiful film starring Lee Remick and Montgomery Clift as a young Tennessee woman named Carol and a government agent named Chuck sent in to get Carol’s grandmother off of her river property so that they can...
What was the score by Chicago Addic (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
I like top 5's and with today being Halloween what better time to share with you my favourite scary movies. 1. The Shining Released in 1980. A family with Jack Nicholson as Dad become the winter housesitters of a hotel in the mountains of Colorado. Nicholson's character Jack Torrance is writing a book but the isolated hotel's ghosts take hold of him and insanity takes over Torrance played magnificently...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Elia Kazan’s “Wild River,” from 1960, screening at Film Forum Oct. 23-29, is so strange and beautiful that critics have called it a neglected masterpiece. If the movie isn’t exactly that, it’s certainly one of the most resonantly self-critical events in . . .
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
By David Lambert - Nouveau New York socialite Frances Schreuder has her heart's desire: a seat on the board of the New York City Ballet. And all it took was murder. Lee Remick gives an electrifying performance... (more)
Deep Dish (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Warner Bros. Film Archive announced the release of 29 new titles on DVD today, and I thought I would share a few that caught my eye: Haywire , a wonderful 1980 TV movie starring the lovely Lee Remick (as troubled actress Margaret Sullavan), Jason Robards, Deborah Raffin and Hart Bochner. I highly recommend this! Love Among Thieves , a 1987 TV movie with Audrey Hepburn in her last leading role. Man...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
The rich earth of Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with more than copper, iron. The Cliffs Shaft mine operated for 99 years in the town of Ishpeming, which is located in the Marquette Iron Range. Once home of many iron mines, the U.P. has only two left. Cliffs Shaft is now a musuem . I arrived there after it closed for the day, while I was traveling east on U.S 41 to Munising, I saw the old mine...
Messages from the Ether (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
I haven't seen my generation's contribution to the cinema of alcoholism (e.g. Leaving Las Vegas) but have seen Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream and would put Days of Wine and Roses in a similar class. One odd difference is that from the start of Days, we get more of a sense of grim, self-loathing from the leads. The manic beauty and potential in the primary characters of the two modern films were...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds from movie download sites is becoming very common. You can get virtually any movie you want with a good movie download site. Here are some examples.
CultureQueens (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
From Darwin Porter, this is a pioneering and posthumous biography of a charismatic titan of Tinseltown whose rule over the hearts of American moviegoers lasted for more than half a century. Porter began gathering insider information on Paul Newman back in 1959, following an introduction by Tennessee Williams, and then continued collecting stories about "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke,"...
DVD Movie Maniac (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
Print: A few marks, but overall good - Sound: Good - Label: Carlton - Year: 1978 - Cover: OK - Format: 4:3 - Length: 1h43m - Before: Yes on TV - Again: No - Price: £2, years ago - Rating: 6/10. In The Medusa Touch , John Morlar ( Richard Burton ) a famous novelist, is attacked in his London flat and left for dead, then taken to hospital in a coma. Detective Brunel ( Lino Ventura ) comes across...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
I HOPE YOU’RE proud of yourselves, you naughty, naughty children. Just look what you’ve done. You’ve caused Lee Remick to topple off the mezzanine. You’ve thrown up all over Max Von Sydow. You’ve even managed to unnerve Jack Nicholson. And that takes some doing. Since the mid-1950s, when Patty McCormack did awful things in , the scary-starey child has become a staple of...
Deep Dish (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
Damn Yankees isn't one of my favorite musicals. I like it, but I don't love it. Its wonderful song, "Heart", did make my list of the Top 200 Show Tunes , but the show has never excited me all that much. However, when I was recently researching a post about Tab Hunter , I stumbled upon three YouTube videos of a 1967 television production starring the lovely Lee Remick as Lola and, of course,...
24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Well, I did a contemporary list (and I’ll do another soon) so I thought it would be good to have a post full of beautiful actress who are either no longer with us, no longer working, or simply no longer as beautiful as they once were. All pics are clickable for the full size version. This post contains some nudity, if that’s offensive to you please skip this post. Thanks. Jean Arthur (1900...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Go away. When will you be gone from here? Sooner is better than later. In fact, yesterday is better than anything. Why are you still here, again? Oh, of course. You came here for a reading. As if that will help you with your life. But, since that's what you came here for, and that's what will get you to leave, that's what you will have. Here you are : You are a complete prig. Not only are you unyielding...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Karl Malden (centre, in hat) with actress Lee Remick, director Blake Edwards and cinematographer Harry Stradling on the set of 'Days of Wine and Roses' in 1962. His distinctive features…
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