I caught This is the Night on TCM last night and I was delightfully surprised. It was funny, curious and also interesting as the first full feature movie Cary Grant ever appeared in.
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When is a film noir not a film noir? When it’s 1947’s Daisy Kenyon, a film that looks like it could be, even should be, a noir but when you actually watch it, it isn’t. Or is it?
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Even if one is familiar with the hyperkinetic work of the underappreciated noir director D. Ross Lederman, his films of the 1940s still have the power to shock the contemporary viewer with their violence, their breathless narrative speed, and the strange twists of fate that befall Lederman’s hapless protagonists.
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I'd been thinking a lot about Budd who’d passed away in 2001 after a legendary career as a filmmaker, bullfighter and world-class hellraiser. I’d met him in the early 1990’s soon after moving to L.A., and he’d become like a second grandfather to me; sometimes I still think I’ll pick up the phone and hear his gravelly voice on the other end.
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Road House (1948) is a good Hollywood melodrama that is also a curious noir piece – noir, due to the nature of what happens and curious because it isn’t in the usual urban setting but a rural one, the roadhouse being located in the northern U.S. near the Canadian border.
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For Nomad Widescreen, the Siren fulfills her longstanding threat to write up one of her all-time favorite performances from any ...
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A fun-loving and handsome couple (Cary Grant, Constance Bennett) are killed when they smash their sporty roadster into a tree ...
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Raffaele Baldassarre was born on January 17, 1932 in Rome, Italy. The tall, slim athletic actor became a well recognized figure ...
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Anne Francis has passed away at 80. She’s known for playing Altaira in Forbidden Planet (1956) and Honey West in the show ...
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The Siren confesses to disappointment that there has been little so far in the Western press about Hideko Takamine, the great Japanese actress who died Tuesday, age 86 ...
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The Best in Romantic Comedy 2010 Maybe we’re just not in the mood. Perhaps political argument has bludgeoned any penchant for witty flirtatious banter out of our current recessionist American moment. Maybe a decade of male POV sex farce and...
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Turner Classic Movies is serving up a real treat in a couple weeks — “Rookie Of The Year,” an episode of Screen ...
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Martin Ritt's The Outrage is one of the more offbeat stabs Hollywood has taken at westernizing (both in the literal and the genre sense) a Kurosawa film.
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Roberto Amoroso was born on January 7, 1911 in Naples, Italy. After a brief career as a reporter he found work at South Film in ...
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My list of 20 favorite actors has not been changed at all since I started this blog (TWO YEARS AGO, next month). I decided it was time for a revision, a switching of places, and because I broke down trying to figure out who to cut...I just added 5 extra places to the list!
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I’ve noticed Orson Welles had a thing for looking with slightly bowed head up from under his eyebrows. He uses it a lot ...
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Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California, and is one of America's greatest actors and ...
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By Marilyn Ferdinand In the last blog entry, my partner Rod Heath gave his year in review and 10 favorite films of 2010. He ...
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I was very pleasantly surprised last night when I watched The Stranger, a movie I hadn’t seen before and knew little ...
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I saw in the New Year with yet another 1930s William Wellman movie which isn’t available on DVD! After seeing this one twice, I can hardly believe that it hasn’t had an official release. It is a highly entertaining romantic comedy-drama and has close links with Wellman’s Oscar-winning A Star Is Born, released the following year.
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Delightful comedy set during the WW2 housing shortage in Washington, DC. Connie Milligan (Jean Arthur) rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. But instead she gets a mischievous, middle-aged man named Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn).
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