by Sandy | Sep 14, 2007 | Blogroll, Directors, Film, Movies
“There is no terror in the bang, just in the anticipation of it.” Alfred Hitchcock
Partial AMC TV listings below courtesy of AOL. (Sometimes 2 movies a day – double features!)
*The Birds (1963) Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette
Mon Sep 17 08:00P / Tue Sep 18 05:30P
*Dial M for Murder (1954) Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Sun Sep 16 10:30P / Mon Sep 17 03:15P
*Family Plot (1976) Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, – Fri Sep 21 10:15P
*Frenzy (1972) Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey
Wed Sep 19 10:45P / Thu Sep 20 02:15P
*The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) James Stewart, Doris Day
Thu Sep 20 07:30P / Fri Sep 21 02:45P
*Marnie (1964) Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Diane Baker, Louise Latham
Wed Sep 19 08:00P / Thu Sep 20 04:45P
Thu Sep 27 01:45P / Fri Sep 28 09:15A
*Psycho (1960) Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Sat Sep 22 08:00P / Sun Sep 23 08:30A
*Rear Window (1954) James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr
Sun Sep 16 8:00P / Mon Sep 17 5:30P
*Rope (1948) James Stewart, Farley Granger
Mon Sep 17 10:30P / Tue Sep 18 03:45P
*Saboteur (1942) Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane,
Tue Sep 18 10:45P / Wed Sep 19 03:00P
*Torn Curtain (1966) Paul Newman, Julie Andrews
Thu Sep 20 11:00P / Fri Sep 21 05:15P
*The Trouble with Harry (1955) Edmund Gwenn, Shirley MacLaine
Fri Sep 21 08:00P / Sat Sep 22 03:00P
*Vertigo (1958) James Stewart, Kim Novak
Tue Sep 18 08:00P / Wed Sep 19 05:15P
Sat Sep 22 05:15P / Sun Sep 23 01:00A
BTW – Just in case you’ve forgotten, although I don’t imagine how you could – the photo is Janet Leigh, courtesy of “Psycho “
by Bob Martin | Sep 11, 2007 | Actors, Art, Artist, Film, Movies
I finally got around to seeing “The Lives of Others” which I enjoyed. First as a kind of mystery and second as a foretelling of what life for us would be like if we continue down our current path. I’d like to think that this country of red white and blue would rally to protect us creative types. Looking for proof.
by Sandy | Aug 28, 2007 | Directors, Film, Movies
* October 18 – 21
14th Annual African American Film Marketplace and Short Film Showcase. Hosted by Award-winning Filmmaker Julie Dash. There will be films and filmmakers, workshops, seminars, vendors, and networking opportunities.
For more info:
310.284.3170 – www.bherc.org
Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, CA
by Sandy | Aug 1, 2007 | Blogroll, Directors, Film, Movies
Famed director Ingmar Bergman passed away last week, (along with another legendary filmaker, Michelangelo Antonioni). Of course, there is acknowledgment of his talent and what he brought to film, but, frankly, I immediately felt this wave of nostalgia.
I associate Mr. Bergman with a black and white film about a chalk faced man in a black cloak. The movie was “The Seventh Seal”,(1957) with Max von Sydow and rest of Bergman’s stable of actors, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekero, Nils Poppe and Bibi Andersson. In short, the story is about a knight that returns from the crusades. After being followed home thru the devastation of a war torn and plague infested countryside, he plays a game of chess with “death” to save his life. Lots of stark landscapes, lots of symbolism. Terrific film.
In NYC, back in the day, you gained immediate “cred” if you had seen the “The Seventh Seal”. It established you as a serious person. In fact you were seen as a person with substance – you were not deterred by subtitles. (Yes, it seems silly and pretentious now, but, we saw great stuff! – Fellini, Truffaut, Antonioni, and Rosselini)
Anyway, nostalgia. A great director, and we still have his work. Hugely prolific, below are only some of Ingmar Bergman’s films that were seen here. We should all be grateful for DVD:
1950s: Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries
1960s: The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Persona
1970s: Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage , Autumn Sonata
1980s: Fanny and Alexander
by Sandy | Jul 20, 2007 | Actors, Blogroll, Books
Is he terrific or what??! Whether he is acting in a film of serious social commentary, “Traffic” and “Crash” or fun stuff, the “Ocean’s” films – (11, 12 and 13), Mr. Cheadle always stands out. Whether crying with him in “Hotel Rwanda” or laughing with him in his latest film, “Talk to Me”, a story about 60’s/70’s activist, and Washington, DC, disk jockey Ralph “Petey” Greene directed by Kasi Lemmons, he just elevates it all to another level.
Also a stage actor, he appeared in Lori Parks Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Top Dog/Under Dog”, on Broadway to much acclaim.
But, Don Cheadle also has an activist streak. While filming “Hotel Rwanda”, he learned the plight of people in the Sudan and after visiting Darfur in 2005, he’s made a committed effort to bring the horrors and violence of the region to the attention of the American people. He wrote a book with John Prendergast called, “Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in
Darfur and Beyond”. An accompanying documentary, for which he will narrate, is scheduled for release in Oct’07. Don Cheadle is outstanding.
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Our-Watch-Mission-Genocide/dp/1401303358
by Sandy | Jul 17, 2007 | Blogroll, Film, Movies
Actually, it is a love story, just sort of backwards. Instead of a passion that grows and then atrophies, this story follows a dead relationship on its road to vitality and a wondrous respect.
I wasn’t quite sure why I liked “The Painted Veil”(2006). Did I fall into it so easily because of watching so much of PBS’ Masterpiece Theater “Upstairs, Downstairs”/ “Britain between the Wars” -like offerings?
Nah. I liked it because it did what I want movies to do – tell me a story, take me to time and place and make me care about how it all ends.
Beautifully filmed, this adaptation of a Somerset Maugham story takes place during the 1920s in the middle of a cholera epidemic in a small, beautiful, lush village in China.
The green of the countryside covers the spreading disease just as the British Edwardian façade of manners covers the sham of a marriage.
The English doctor and his wife drop into the middle of the ugliness of sickness and the unease of the rising Chinese nationalist fervor and as they adapt and deal with challenges, they discover and accept one another for who they are – not who they should be, wish to be, hope to be – but the reality of who they are.
And they both turn out to be much bigger than the other thought – both are truly worthy, different, but worthy. Acceptance. Love.
The actors were lovely – Naomi Watts and Edward Norton are wonderful as the husband & wife. Liev Schreiber plays the dashing fly in the ointment – the wife’s former lover. And all were tightly directed by John J. Curran.
“The Painted Veil” – good love story.
“There is no terror in the bang, just in the anticipation of it.” Alfred Hitchcock
