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49 Search results for "jerry lewis"

Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Directors

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Jerry Lewis: b. Joseph Levitch, Newark, New Jersey, 1926-2017, res. Hollywood

  • August 20, 2017

“The major point of convergence between Cassavetes and the Dogme movement is an oppositional realist form that blurs the boundaries between being and performing.”

Comedy · Directors · Essays

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Jerry Lewis and the Gender of Work

  • January 7, 2017

The gender of work in the work films is a spectrum that includes both the neutered worker of The Bellboy and The Errand Boy and the feminized worker of Cinderfella,[…]

Actors & Personalities · Reviews

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More Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, The Nutty Professor, no Gorilla (I think), and no Allen Ginsberg (or Ginzberg)

  • March 29, 2007

Since my esteemed Bright Lights After Dark (and Bright Lights Film Journal) co-contributor C. Jerry Kutner posted his last entry in the (now) ongoing Nutty Professor debate out here in[…]

Actors & Personalities · Reviews

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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis vs. Julius Kelp & Buddy Love

  • March 20, 2007

In a comment to my previous Jerry Lewis post, Tom Sutpen wrote: Couldn’t agree more . . . except . . . Jerry Lewis has always steadfastly denied any Martin[…]

Pierre Etaix, Yoyo

Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Directors

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Pierre Etaix: Revisiting a Forgotten Master

  • July 31, 2010

“The man’s a genius!” —Jerry Lewis

Actors & Personalities

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Happy Happy Birthday Baby! Steve McQueen (b. 3/24/30): Fifty Years of the King of Cool

  • March 24, 2022

“Steve understood real people, particularly misfits, like nobody else.It was just the Hollywood brass he loathed.”

Get Crazy

Comedy · DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Production History

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“Baby, I’m Having Fun”: Allan Arkush and Kent Beyda Discuss Get Crazy

  • January 12, 2022

ALLAN ARKUSH: Get Crazy never actually got a real release, you know. It was in theaters for a month. . . . A month? I’m sorry, a week, in some[…]

The Big Lebowski

Essays · Reviews

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Infinite Jest: The Big Lebowski

  • March 6, 2021

“What makes The Big Lebowski seem so circuitous is that, in moving from A to B to C, the plot keeps dawdling at points of interest along the way, stopping to admire the scenery before picking up and moving on. That’s essentially what Quintana and Brandt and Da Fino are: local color. It’s a movie about the pleasure of the journey, not the arrival at the destination.”

Joker

Comedy · Drama · Essays

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Joker: Laughter Without an Echo Chamber

  • March 4, 2020

In Joker, we see a reversal of Tarantino’s aesthetic, where a patently comic character, a joker with a clown face, is, by degrees, rendered tragic, or as near tragic as[…]

David Lynch

Festivals & Awards · New Media

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Got a Light? David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption (Oct. 13-14, 2018)

  • October 17, 2018

Francis Ford Coppola introduced the screening of his Robin Williams vehicle Jack. Since this was the Festival of Disruption, Coppola said he wanted to “disrupt” by screening his worst film,[…]

Elle Fanning, The Neon Demon

Festivals & Awards

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Blood’s Up: The 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival

  • September 25, 2016

But even though Jesse (Elle Fanning) is “everything” right now, what she has is fragile: the aura of enchantment so prized by fashion is easily lost. Once she stops looking[…]

Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones: Ghostbusters (2016)

Comedy · Horror

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Originality Is Overrated: Ghostbusters (1984) and Its Remake (2016)

  • July 25, 2016

The new Ghostbusters seems quite pleased with itself, but it leaves the overwhelming impression that nobody involved really believed in it. Despite the original film’s numerous flaws and Bill Murray’s[…]

Directors · Essays · Genres · Horror

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Sexual Violence and Female Experience in Roman Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant

  • June 6, 2016

In the first two films of the Apartment Trilogy, gender, subjectivity, and horror are intertwined: being embodied and socially constructed as a woman is the horror, and the audience is[…]

Books · Directors · Silents

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Book Review: Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios

  • October 12, 2014

Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios, by Frederic Lombardi (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013, 370pp, $49.95 from the publisher’s website) Allan Dwan (1885-1981) was one of[…]

Shirley MacLaine in What a Way to Go!

Reviews

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What a Way to Go! Shirley MacLaine, the 1960s, and How Hollywood Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb

  • May 6, 2014

Who’d have dreamed that the 1960s were as dumb as the 1990s? And that Shirley MacLaine was the transitional figure between the serious 1950s and the brainless decade that followed?[…]

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Issue Archive

  • February 9, 2014

Bright Lights Film Journal began life as a print publication in 1974, published and edited by Gary Morris. In 1995, the magazine went online exclusively as brightlightsfilm.com. In April 2014,[…]

Jerry Lewis and Robert De Niro in The King of Comedy

Comedy · Reviews

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Satirical Excess and Empty Vessels: Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy

  • April 30, 2013

“Rupert Pupkin is uniquely a product of late capitalism near the close of the twentieth century; his fantasies reflect mass media’s ability to twist the real world into an insubstantial collection of images that mimic reality — the representation of self becomes more than the actual self, and it becomes impossible to tell the difference.”

Cyd and Fred in Silk Stockings

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals · Reviews

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Nothin’ but Legs! Fred and Cyd Go out Kicking in Cole Porter’s Silk Stockings

  • July 31, 2012

Sorry, folks, but this is the last dance

Books

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Book review: Brutal Intimacy, by Tim Palmer

  • May 24, 2012

Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, Tim Palmer. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. Paperback, $28.00. 304pp. ISBN: 978-0819568267 Endemic to any reading of a new work lionizing French cinema is[…]

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, and 'the Man' in Easy Rider

Counterculture · Genres

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“You Know Billy, We Blew It”: Historical Influences on the “Rough Rebels” and How the Counterculture Was Excluded from Hollywood

  • January 31, 2012

Hippies and radicals, back of the (cultural) bus

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