Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Christmas is a brilliant time to be taking pictures. Not only are most people in a better-than-usual mood, but for many of us, it's often the only time you can get the whole family together.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The best film in this five-movie set - and certainly the most well known - is Fritz Lang's hard-edged "The Big Heat" (1953), based on the novel by William P. McGivern. A police detective (Glenn Ford) uncovers corruption and suffers...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
DVD Video Review: After a long wait, Sony finally releases some film noir, including a trio of prime titles never before on DVD - The Sniper, Murder by Contract and The Lineup - in a new set, reviewed here by clydefro.
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Head over to The Auteurs’ Notebook, damen und herren, where Miss Lola Lola has a little concertina she’d like you to cast an appraising eye over. But for this, the latest edition of The Forgotten, you might want to wear your shades… Posted in FILM Tagged: Edward Dmytryk, The Auteurs' Notebook, The Blue Angel, The Forgotten [...]
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Day 6 For those, like me, who missed last week's film festival in Lyon, here are clips from some of the rarely seen films that Eddie Muller and Philippe Garnier presented there. As often the case with clips like these, the picture quality is often less than desired. The Prowler, directed by Joseph Losey, 1951 Woman on the Run, direcgted by Norman Foster, 1950 711...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
This started when I began watching Bored to Death on HBO. In the series, the hero--a mystery novelist who becomes a private eye after he can’t finish his second book--is influenced by Raymond Chandler’s 1940 novel, Farewell, My Lovely.I realized that I hadn’t read that book for a long time, so I dug up a copy--and quickly discovered that it contained lots of material which hinted...
scanners (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
"As a sequence is being cut, the cutter should know where a particular setup most effectively presents the information needed for that particular part of the scene. In other words, he will stay with the shot as long as...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
What will you have? A human form with animal instincts Synopsis A mad scientist (John Carradine) transforms an ape (Ray Corrigan) into a beautiful but mute woman (Acquanetta) with a strange power...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
gadabout \GAD-uh-bout\, noun: Someone who roams about in search of amusement or social activity. Gadabout is formed from the verb gad, "to rove or go about without purpose or restlessly" (from Middle English gadden, "to hurry") + about. shoulder tapping using the services of a person over 21 to buy alcohol for minors Hey man, I lost my fake ID so I gues tonigt we've got to do some...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Every time somebody posts a great movie-deaths piece (the latest is a Rope of Silicon article by David Frank), I post my dog-eared "nobody died like Marlon Brando" piece, the first version of which I ran back in '95. Why stop now? I haven't posted it since 3.1.07, or two and half years ago. My suggestion was that Brando's best death scene was in Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions ('58), and...
Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
“In art, the obvious is a sin.” Edward Dmytryk quotes
nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 21/06/2009
Lee Horsley goes into the origins of Film Noir: The years immediately following the end of World War Two marked … several concurrent developments: the Hollywood production of a growing number of pessimistic, downbeat crime films, the post-war release in Europe of a large backlog of American films, the publication in France of a new series of crime novels and the appearance in America of a new...
The Herald (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
Penguin has just published a collection of handsome- looking books by the American writer Raymond Chandler to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 23/04/2009
" Murder, My Sweet " ( Edward Dmytryk , 1944) A neat trick, this. Although the third Chandler adaptation to make it to the screen—the first being " The Falcon Takes Over " (taken from the same source novel as this—" Farewell, My Lovely ") co-opted as a story-line in the George Sanders "Falcon" movie series, and the second " Time To Kill "...
BizzyBlog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Friday’s Wall Street Journal, a tale of two heroes (important historical background facts are in bold): …. the first time a (McCarthy era) blacklistee was openly brought back into the Hollywood fold actually came almost a decade earlier with the rehabilitation of 42-year-old director and former communist Edward Dmytryk. A young Ronald Reagan, of all [...]
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