A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films: 5 (Film Europa): Billy Wilder's American Films: 5 (Film Europa)
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
"You used to be big," says the B-movie hack screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) when he meets the faded and aging silent film star...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Much like the great prognosticator of trends that he always was, Billy Wilder drew from the past and anticipated the future by creating a hilarious movie that also happens to deal realistically with infidelity, occupational depression, and suicide.
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Dennis Cozzalio's film quizzes are a popular diversion for film bloggers everywhere, and he's just posted his newest one over at his always-great blog Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule . This is a holiday quiz, to span the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. My answers are posted below. Check out Dennis' site to see other responses and to post your own. 1) Second-favorite Coen Brothers movie. I...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Hepburn shines in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's, set to play the Charles When Billy Wilder's comedies clicked, whole groups of stars could settle into unexpectedly risible constellations - as they did in his most purely entertaining movie, the gangbusters Roaring Twenties farce, "Some Like It Hot." Wilder had worked with Monroe before 1959, but in "Some Like It Hot," he took her dizzy-blonde...
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I used to think of Billy Wilder primarily as a very witty, literate screenwriter who made sophisticated, Lubitsch -like films. But re-watching Sunset Boulevard and Stalag 17 recently, I was reminded again of how hard-edged Wilder’s sense of humour is. Of course, there was never any denying that he made some very cynical movies (most notably Ace in the Hole , which anticipates the evils of today’s...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
As anyone who knows the film well might realize, the idea of a special screening of Robert Altman’s masterpiece THE LONG GOODBYE at the Hammer Museum in Westwood Village was very appropriate if only because the museum is located by the corner of Wilshire & Westwood, situated exactly where Elliott Gould’s Phillip Marlowe chases after the Mercedes driven by Nina van Pallandt’s Eileen...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The Oscar race doesn't begin and end with Up in the Air , certainly, but it's one of a handful of movies expected to be represented throughout the evening on March 7th. It has a Best Actor possibility in George Clooney (which would be his fifth nomination in four years), a Supporting Actress push for Anna Kendrick , plus awards for Adapted Screenplay, Director, and Best Picture. If it doesn't "feel"...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ One: Is it backhanded praise to say that One, Two, Three is a movie you don’t even have to look at to enjoy? For the first...
Fitz Blog of Comedy (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The Apartment ***** IMDB This is the simple tale of a mensch, a decent guy. ..... He's a gentle heart adrift in a sea of anonymity and loneliness. .... His unscrupulous colleagues, sensing his innocent eagerness for approval in the form of company advancement, persuade him to let them use his bachelor apartment as a love nest for their secret trysts. .... When his boss makes a reservation on which...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Where to watch free movies online? Here’s a list that will get you started. We’ve listed 30 sites that feature a wide range of films, plus a healthy number of great films. Classics, international, film noir, documentaries, indies — they’re all here, waiting to be watched. So please Free Movies Online A Woman (1915) with Charlie Chaplin. Adaptation [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Amelia Earhart, the great pioneer aviatrix, has been impersonated on screen by numerous actresses, among them Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Diane Keaton and Amy Adams. But never as convincingly as she is by Hilary Swank in this immensely enjoyably biopic from the Indian director who made her name with Salaam Bombay! . With the right short haircut, some orthodontic effects and sporting her regular...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The Spanish director on his delirious new movie-movie with Penelope Cruz, and how the New York Dolls fought Franco
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Speaking of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, a while back Sumana and I watched The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes , the least impressive of the Billy Wilder movies we've watched. After an excellent opening vignette and the promising appearance of Mycroft Holmes, there's a big boring movie about Scotland and then the credits roll. Kind of similar to the big boring movie about Scotland found in the beginning...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Two weeks ago, I posted a collection of 20 sites where you can watch free movies online. Thanks to your help, the page now features 30 Places to Watch Free Movies Online, and I hope to keep it growing. Below, I have featured five of the new additions, which includes many important classics. Please feel [...]
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