Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I love slow movies. Really slow. For the longest time I thought everyone else considered that word to signify the worst in movies. Slow meant bad enough to put you to sleep. I love movies that put me to sleep. I’ve a whole collection of movies that I can pop in the DVD player whenever I can’t sleep and they’ll do the trick. If we can agree that music peaceful enough to put you to...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
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...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
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,...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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 [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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...
In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall who starred in over 30 movies, but never won an Academy Award, received an honorary Oscar at the weekend in front of stars including, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicolson. As Bacall collected the lifetime achievement statuette she joked, “I can’t believe it, a man at last.” This was the first time that [...]
brokencountry.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Most people today probably don’t even know who Lauren Bacall is, or even care. She is a great actress and a good American. Bacall is a staunch liberal Democrat. She has proclaimed her political views on numerous occasions. But she has never stopped supporting a strong America, and for that I admire her most. She appeared
Later On (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Read the entire post, which begins: Where to watch free movies online? Let’s get you started. First, we have listed dozens of free, high quality films that you can watch online. Then, below, you can find movie sites that feature free movie collections. Classics, international, film noir, documentaries, indies — they’re all here, waiting to be [...]
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Two weeks ago, we presented a list of 35 sites where you can watch free movies online. Now, we’ve taken the next step and added 100 high-quality films to our list. Some films are contemporary, but many are classics created by legendary directors, actors & actresses. And they’re frequently made available by the great Internet [...]
Frugal Café Blog Zone (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Sultry, intelligent Lauren Bacall is one of my favorite actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood. She made a number of films, but the best, in my opinion, were the film noir movies in which she co-starred with husband Humphrey Bogart (they first met and fell in love during the filming of To Have [...]
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 [...]
Damn Good Vintage (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
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...
The Dougout (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
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...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
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...
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