Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British (and UK) Pop Music (part 39)

by Jamie Talking last week about the explosion that Primal Scream and the just briefly mentioned Stone Roses created in Britain’s Rock scene in the late 1980′s early 1990′s it’s interesting to see the influence it had on the American buying public. Though the Stone Roses and Primal Scream were both interested in the dance [...]

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One Hour With You (No. 62)

by Allan Fish (USA 1932 80m) DVD1/2 (France only) Oh, that Mitzi! p  Ernst Lubitsch  d  Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor  w  Samson Raphaelson  play  “Only a Dream” by Lothar Schmidt  ph  Victor Milner  ed  William Shea  m/ly  Oscar Straus, Richard Whiting, Leo Robin  art  Hans Dreier  cos  Travis Banton Maurice Chevalier (Dr André Bertier), Jeanette [...]

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“The Whole Thing got out of hand”: BILLY WILDER’S ‘THE APARTMENT’ and JEAN-LUC GODARD’S ‘BREATHLESS’

Copyright © 2011 by James Clark Both Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and Billy Wilder’s Apartment were produced in 1959 and released in 1960. The former is widely regarded as a decisive change in the history of film; the latter is seen as an above-average comedy. The dialogue and physical incident of each boil over to the [...]

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A Nous la Liberté (No. 63)

by Allan Fish (France 1931 83m) DVD1/2 Aka. Freedom for Us Pre-Modern Times p  Frank Clifford  d/w  René Clair  ph  Georges Périnal  ed  René Clair, René le Henaff  m  Georges Auric  art  Lazare Meerson Raymond Cordy (Louis), Henri Marchand (Emile), Rolla France (Jeanne), Paul Olivier (Paul Imaque), Alexander d’Arcy (Gigolo), Jacques Shelly (Paul), Germaine Aussey [...]

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The Maltese Falcon – 1931, Roy del Ruth

by Allan Fish (USA 1931 80m) DVD1 Aka. Dangerous Female The strange History of the Little Black Bird d  Roy del Ruth  w  Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes  novel  Dashiell Hammett  ph  William Rees  ed  George Marks  m  Joseph A.Burke  art  Robert Haas  cos  Earl Luick Ricardo Cortez (Sam Spade), Bebe Daniels (Ruth Wonderly), [...]

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Roman Scandals (No. 64)

by Allan Fish (USA 1933 93m) DVD2 (Spain only) Oedipus Wrecks p  Samuel Goldwyn  d  Frank Tuttle  w  George Oppenheimer, William Anthony McGuire, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin  story  George S.Kaufman, Robert E.Sherwood  ph  Gregg Toland  chariot sequ.  Ralph Cedar  ed  Stuart Heisler  m  Alfred Newman  ch  Busby Berkeley  m/ly  Harry Warren, Al Dubin, L.Wolfe Gilbert  [...]

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Hurricane Irene, Musical Countdown, Robert Ryan Festival, At-home pre-coders and Don’t be afraid of the Dark and Richard “R.D.” Finch on Monday Morning Diary (August 29)

by Sam Juliano Irene’s bark was worse than her bite.  What was initially seen as a monster hurricane as menacing as any in well over a hundred years, was downgraded to a tropical storm, that was mainly notable for it’s eight-to-ten inch rain, and a wind display that was no worse than medium-strength noreasters.  But [...]

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (No. 65)

by Brian (a.k.a. Classic Film Boy) Casual Walt Disney fans may be aware that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was his first feature-length animated film, but they are unsure how to place it within his career. The enormous and ongoing success of Mickey Mouse can overshadow Disney’s tremendous output during the 1920s, ‘30s and [...]

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The Mouthpiece – 1932, Elliot Nugent, James Flood

by Allan Fish (USA 1932 86m) not on DVD A chain of circumstantial evidence p  Lucien Hubbard  d  James Flood, Elliott Nugent  w  Joseph Jackson, Earl Baldwin  ph  Barney McGill  ed  George Amy  m  Bernard Kaun  art  Esdras Hartley  cos  Earl Luick Warren William (Vincent Day), Sidney Fox (Celia Farraday), Aline MacMahon (Miss Hickey), John [...]

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Lalouxpalooza, Part Four: “Gandahar”, and the Later Shorts

By Bob Clark As we move into the final stretch of Rene Laloux’s creative output on film, we run into a few little snags in terms of appreciating them in available video. Though his final feature, 1988′s Gandahar, is thankfully available both in R2 DVD and in various online destinations with a helpful set of [...]

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