Hollywood Professionals Volume 1: Michael Curtiz, Raoul Walsh, Henry Hathaway
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Jesus God let this happen. Make this happen. We announced a few weeks back that the Coen brothers were going to adapt True Grit, and had already cast Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn, the role originally made famous by none...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Duo in talks to join Coens' Western redo
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I'm tapping the iPhone while waiting for my number to appear at the Cole Avenue DMV, but the key casting decision for the Coen Bros.'s True Grit is the young-girl narrator (I.e., the Kim Darby role in the Henry Hathaway/John Wayne version). Not that the hiring of Matt Damon for the Glenn Campbell role and Josh Brolin as the baddy is inconsequential news....
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW is perfect Friday night entertainment, a lighthearted look at the travails of a crew of "90-day wonders" stationed on a steam-powered "sub catcher" in the early days of WWII. It was "laugh out loud funny," and my family thoroughly enjoyed it. When Navy Lt. John Harkness (Gary Cooper) arrives at his first command, he's shocked to discover two things:...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Since Alistair Cooke's death in March 2004, his legacy has passed from the airwaves to the printed page. Reprints of 'Alistair Cooke's America' and 'Six Men' have appeared, as well as a comprehensive single-volume selection of his 'Letters from America', the long presumed lost manuscript 'American Journey', and themed volumes of his writing which chronicle his political commentary and his love of golf....
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Jeff Bridges is reportedly in discussions to join the Coen brothers' True Grit update.
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Coen brothers – always gleefully eccentric in their film ...
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
True Grit is one of my all-time favorite Westerns. The arch 19th century manner of speaking (ripped from the Charles Portis, novel) has rarely been captured on screen better (most Westerns have modern or modern-ish, anachronistic dialog). Kim Darby and...
The Longest Journey (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
I came across this film c. 12 years ago, while channel-hopping on what was quite probably a Bank Holiday weekend. I'd missed the first twenty or thirty minutes, but got hooked into the perilous-trek-across-the-Sahara storyline, and the tensions between the three main characters. Although the desert setting is physically expansive, its extreme character and the isolation of the three people trekking...
Cinema Treasures (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
NEW YORK, NY -- I was just told by staff there that the Paris and the Beekman (Formerly NY 1 + 2) Theaters have been leased to City Cinemas, and to look for a lot of changes...
Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 15/08/2009
And here, the final three of the Siren's Books from a Cinephile's Past. The Siren has written before of her stint babysitting a toddler by the name of P.D. His parents were movie buffs and in addition to Mary Astor's novel A Place Called Saturday , on their shelves was a treasure trove called The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years , by English critic David Shipman. In later years the Siren came to...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
Don’t forget The Forgotten — you have an appointment with Paul Douglas and his natty shirt over on a window ledge at The Auteurs’ Notebook. As usual, leave any comments over there. Posted in FILM Tagged: Fourteen Hours, Henry Hathaway, Paul Douglas, The Auteurs' Notebook, The Forgotten
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
In his review of Universal Home Video's DVD of Henry Hathaway's Trail of the Lonesome Pine (out July 7th), DVD Beaver's Gary W. Tooze says the digital mastering of this 73 year-old film "may be one of the best looking SD transfers I've ever seen of a film over 50 years old. (l. to r.) Fred Stone Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney in Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) "The colors look wonderful --...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
" 13 Rue Madeleine " ( Henry Hathaway , 1947) There are several good movies to be made based on the exploits of the American and British Secret Service during World War II. The OSS wasn't all encrypters and code-breakers listening over wirelesses in sterile little offices. There were field agents, double agents, and mis-information spreaders and they had at their disposal all sorts of spy...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
Rent It THE MOVIE: Henry Hathaway's The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is one of those movies that now survives due to its historical significance more than its ability to entertain. Made in 1936, it's a pretty mediocre movie, despite its excellent cast--Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, and Sylvia Sidney star, and Spanky McFarland from "Our Gang" is one of the supporting players. As melodramas go,...
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