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A holiday movie, like the raised expectations of the festive season, can be burdened with some pretty extravagant hopes. Like the day itself, we always seem to hope for a cinematic experience that might transcend the reality of an enjoyable if sometimes stressful day such as Thanksgiving. This ...
Drama
David Lynch
Sissy Spacek
The Road
Seth Green
A few weeks back I examined the directorial decisions that went into Fox’s World Series broadcast. Every play in baseball contains an inherent drama easy for a camera to pick out – the duel between pitcher and catcher. This offers an easy, lucid way for the production team to ...
Other
I spent Thanksgiving with Dracula, and I don’t mean that creepy relative who likes to dress in black or my cold-hearted, soul-sucking “ex.” On Thanksgiving evening, I watched the 1931 Universal film interpretation of Bram Stoker’s novel about the world’s most famous vampire, except it wasn’t ...
Drama
New Moon
Chris Weitz
I recently got into a FaceBook tussle that then rolled over into my Fantasy Football League - it was like a bunch of drunk cowboys fighting their way from one room to the next. We all know social networks can be fun time-killers, but this topic resulted in over sixty posts flying back-and-forth. ...
Sci-Fi
Star Trek
Whenever the subject of screwball comedy comes up, I usually flash on the same handful of titles in this short-lived movie genre which began sometime in the early thirties with such models of the form as Twentieth Century (1934) and It Happened One Night (1934) and ended sometime in the early ...
Comedy
Frank Capra
Harry Dean Stanton
Jean Reno
Garry Marshall
I have many things about which I feel thankful this year. I’m thankful for the continued love of my wife, for the gift of my two children, for the continued health of my family through some trying times, for my circle of close friends, cohorts and cronies, for an interest in something ...
Drama
If you are like millions of Americans, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade may be playing as video wallpaper in the background of tomorrow’s holiday hubbub in your household. In between stuffing that turkey and unsuccessfully averting your eyes from the crasser, materialistic moments ...
Action
Tony Scott
The nasal whine of Jerry Lewis is slowly screeching it’s way back into the American consciousness. He won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award at the last Oscar ceremony, and he’s returning to Broadway as the director of a musical version of The Nutty Professor, set for the 2010-11 ...
Animation
Jenifer Lewis
Jerry Bruckheimer
Last week, I showed William Friedkin’s The French Connection in my film history class to represent the era of the Film School Generation, which was that remarkable group of young directors who ruled Hollywood during the 1960s and 1970s. Enormously popular when released in 1971, The French ...
Other
Chicago
The French Connection
William Friedkin
I just read the six-page article in the November 16th, 2009, New Yorker by Arthur Krystal titled Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood. Reading about the famous American author who took the literary world by storm with The Great Gatsby and other stories, only to find himself at the bottom ...
Drama
It seems surprising that Sir Author Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, and London’s most famous serial killer who stalked the Whitechapel neighborhood in 1888, were never brought together for one of Doyle’s novels. But the two were pitted against each other on screen for the ...
Action
Conan the Barbarian
John Neville
Judi Dench
Sherlock Holmes
Anthony Hopkins
Jonah Hill
In the spring of 1993, I spent ten very happy days in Rome. It was my first trip abroad and I was the guest of a friend of a friend, an architect who owned a sprawling apartment in the heart of Old Rome. Walking out of the door of his place on the Piazza Aracoeli, [...]
Drama
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn
Roman Polanski
I suppose to the eyes of the world, we were a motley looking crew as the capacity crowd flowed eagerly into George Eastman House’s Dryden Theatre in Rochester, New York last month. Unlike the first Hollywood premiere of Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1923) at Sid Grauman’s Egyptian ...
Other
Gillian Anderson
Michael Douglas
Edward Norton
Abbas Kiarostami has retreated from the international scene for most of this past decade, working on a variety of museum installations and digital video experiments that received little to no distribution in the U.S. These pursuits, which include the installation Looking at Taziyeh, the ...
Other
On the evening of November 30 on Turner Classic Movies, Anthony Hopkins cohosts his selection of four movies as part of TCM’s Guest Programmer series. Hopkins settled on a set of well-known films from four important directors: Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai, John Huston’s The Treasure of ...
Drama
The Road
The List
There are thousands of film festivals out there, and most of them are small D.I.Y. affairs that lean heavily on digital projection and extremely low-budget projects that happily take up any host that will notice them. And that’s fine. But I’ve also seen an abuse of local media by ...
Comedy
Leaves of Grass
Among the many titles being released through the no-frills Warner Archive Collection are a few oddball orphans and obscurities that didn’t get much love the first time around like Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971), Carny (1980), Angel Baby (1961) and The Rain People (1969) and are well worth a look. ...
Comedy
Ian McKellen
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Kristen Stewart
Gary Oldman
Penelope Cruz
When I was a kid in wool knickers and a collarless shirt, hitching rides on the trolley and selling “papes” with my fellow newsies… wait a minute, why is Morlock Jeff’s life flashing before my eyes? That was weird.
Anyway, when I was a kid, a child of the 70s during the ...
Horror
“There is no such thing”, my friend Alan K. Rode pointed out to me, “as a bad Robert Ryan performance…”
As a culmination of a week that celebrated the versatile Robert Ryan’s contributions to film, this evening at 7:30 PM the American Cinematheque’s ...
Animation
Robert Wise
Michael Mann
Foundation
Harry Dean Stanton
Anthony Hopkins
Lisa Kudrow
This is the final entry in our week-long tribute to Robert Ryan, whose centennial is being celebrated on TCM today and tomorrow with a varied selection of his work. Check the schedule!
Robert Ryan looks exhausted in Men In War, Anthony Mann’s spare Korean War drama. He focuses all of his ...
