A legend is gone. [SL] Friend of the blog Glenn Kenny has a great tribute. I plan on screening Broadcast News and Body Heat at my earliest convenience... [EL} Kenny's ability to put something out that good that quickly is the sign of a truly...
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This is the grave of Nita Naldi. Born in 1894 in a New York tenement to Irish immigrant parents, Nonna Dooley grew up very poor. Four of her five siblings.
A huge, gigantic loss of one of the all-time giants.
Lost a real one today: Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black revolutionary’s survival on the run — proved a milestone of independent and African American cinema, died Sept. 21 at his home in...
This is the grave of Harry Carey, Sr. Born in 1878 in The Bronx, Carey grew up in an elite family. His father was a highly respected lawyer who eventually.
The Criterion Collection has long taken criticism for being very white and canonical in its approach. But with The Criterion Channel and its blog, it has really rectified that in.
The great Korean film maker has died of COVID-19, at the age of only 59. At this point, any discussion of Kim has to note that he was heavily implicated in the #MeToo movement in South Korea and it sounds like he was a pretty...
There is nothing like a good list about art to get people arguing. And so the New York Times' Top 25 Actors of the 21st Century can get us talking..
This is the grave of Joseph Cotten. Born in 1905 in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten grew up middle class but not overly prosperous. As a boy, he was tremendously interested in.
It's remarkable how many of the all time great directors have that one actor (or sometimes a few) that they work with again and again and again, making careers together. For Kurosawa, it was Toshiro Mifune. For Bergman, it was the whole company of Max...
I watched Abbas Kiarostami's brilliant 1990 film Close-Up the other night. I saw this probably 20 years ago and wasn't in a place to get it I guess. I thought.
The greatest film composer in history is no more. It's hard to overstate the greatness of Morricone. He completely turned the rather stale genre of film scores on its head.