The late master filmmaker Orson Welles once stated in an interview that The Trial was the best film he ever made. That’s highly unlikely since the American Film Institute voted Citizen Kane to be the greatest American film of all-time,…
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Guest blogger Rick 29 writes: The producing-directing team of George Pal and Byron Haskin followed up their classic War of the Worlds with The Naked Jungle (1954), a well-written character study which builds to a lively climax involving billions of soldier…
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The first thing that strikes you upon meeting Edward Zwick is that he is whip-smart. The other thing you get just by chatting with him for a few minutes is that he has a strong work ethic. Consider his most…
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Composer Stephen Sondheim–who has written some of the best scores for Broadway shows, including Follies (1985), A Little Night Music (1978), Company (2007), Passion (1995), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1966) — turned 80 last March and is having quite a year. There…
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Timothy Dalton’s unlikely route to Universal Exports was full of twists and turns. He originally turned down the chance to replace Sean Connery for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and was later approached for a second time to replace not Connery…
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If you have never seen The Maltese Falcon, you have deprived yourself of something truly spectacular. You should fix that. Immediately. The granddaddy of film noir–the biggest and best of them all–this is one of those landmark films which ushered in…
Read more →November 19, 1924: Mystery surrounds the death of director Thomas H. Ince. Rumors suggest he was shot aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst. November 18, 1928: Mickey Mouse whistles his way onto the screen in his first speaking performance,…
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I see dead people. More specifically, I see artists whose originality is DOA. Because everywhere I look I see duplicate posters! This is the sixth installment that reveals one-sheets that look spookily similar. (And I sense that the series won’t end here.)…
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The visionary Viennese director Fritz Lang ’s 1927 expressionistic masterpiece Metropolis has been re-released in a new 147 minute version, called “The Complete Metropolis”. The film premiered in February 2010 at the Berlin Film at Friederichstrasse Palast, accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra…
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