Actors & Personalities · Interviews
“Strong, Righteous, and Rustic”: An Interview with Joel McCrea
“I told Hitchcock, ‘I do miss my horse.'”
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Actors & Personalities · Interviews
“I told Hitchcock, ‘I do miss my horse.'”
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Ouch!
Except whether to laugh or cry
1. PAUL THOMAS (dir. Bad Housewives, The Masseuse, The New Devil in Mrs. Jones) – A real actor (he played Peter in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar), Paul[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
As we prepare for Oscar once again, we see Angelina Jolie nominated for being in Clint’s “craftsmanship” film, CHANGELING. I heartily admire Jolie but, for my money, she’s never found[…]
Over time it becomes more and more obvious that as a species humans really aren’t much more than a bunch of monkeys. And our monkey brains, motivated with banana dreams[…]
As reported in the Los Angeles Times – In Hollywood, “even the animals lie about their age.” Cheeta may not be 75 years old. He may not even be[…]
I know Cornelia isn’t necessarily the “younger” sister in Gregory La Cava’s classic screwball comedy, MY MAN GODFREY (1936), but she was born three years earlier (than Lombard) and damn[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
The recent Criterion release of MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954) makes a good–not great, but still worthy–addition to our cooler younger sister collection. This 1954 Douglas Sirk soap was a big,[…]
“Kaufman’s homunculi schema is an implicit mockery of our bottomless ignorance of the nature of consciousness.”
“The air is saturated with their feelings for each other as they listen to ‘the distant music of the falls,’ the same falls, of course, that will threaten to kill her.”
Neither will be the same
Activist & Political · Directors · Interviews
“I think it’s really important for you, or anybody who wants to be a filmmaker, to really be honest with yourself.”
“The film was shot in what would become a blueprint for the director’s production style — without authorization, studio resources, or sufficient funds.”
“I have been in films pretty well everything I am dedicated to fighting against.”
“Is it simply that the hero must be white for a mainstream American audience to care for him, or for the mainstream critical establishment to value Lee’s work?”
“Where Warshow distinguishes himself from Kracauer and other sociological critics is his reaction to the ‘absorbing immediacy’ of films.”
“I think the most horrifying images are the ones you make yourself. Is there someone standing behind the door, or is it just two shoes standing there?”
“The major point of convergence between Cassavetes and the Dogme movement is an oppositional realist form that blurs the boundaries between being and performing.”
Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Directors
“If you could only see me as I really am, not as I appear but as I really am, as I am in my heart.”
