I am surprised that I've gotten this far into the series without exploring Soviet film, which I love very much. I love most of your leftist agitprop, even bad versions. But the great versions, well, it's tough to get better than that. And it does...
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Tonight's film is a treat. Oscar Micheaux's 1919 film Within Our Gates is the earliest surviving film by an African-American director. This version does not have sound, but honestly, if.
We shouldn't let the death of the great French actor Michael Piccoli go unmentioned. I just watched Belle de Jour again a couple of weeks ago and he was great.
It took 63 years, but Max von Sydow finally lost that chess match with death. Von Sydow was genuinely one of the greatest actors of cinema history. His work with Bergman isn't exactly hip these days; Bergman's complete lack of irony does not sit well...
It's bad enough to try and put together of a "best of" music post at the end of the year, but with film distribution realities and the cavalcade of prestige.
One of the truly great character actors is no more. Do the Right Thing (of course). But also L茅on the Professional, Fort Apache the Bronx, Purple Rose of Cairo, and.
JKR_DAY056_120418_1251888.dng Martin Scorsese got a lot of grief for dismissing superhero and related movies a few weeks ago. He goes to the Times to explain what he actually means and I think he is right on here. The problem isn't the movies themselves per se....
For an actor who was never really successful or a star, Robert Forster sure was in a lot of interesting films. And whatever you make think of Tarantino he's always.
Peter Fonda was more myth than actor, thanks to him living a lifetime of fame based on Easy Rider. That movie doesn't necessarily age well, especially the acid trip scene.
This is the grave of Otto Preminger. Born in 1905 to a wealthy and powerful Jewish family in modern Ukraine, where his father was a prominent legal official in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Preminger didn't stay there too long. In World War I, Russia invaded and...
This is the grave of Lee Marvin. Born in 1924 in New York City, Marvin grew up in a well-off family. His father was an advertising executive and his mother.
World War II did not lead to a wave of great literature, especially given its overwhelming importance in the twentieth century. But it sure led to a wave of great.