On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: In Defense of Female Hysteria and Cinematic Foreplay
Final girls have it rough in general. Running from chainsaws is exhausting. Hanging on meat hooks is no fun. And if you get possessed by a demon, your boyfriend just will not see you the same way. Still, there’s a special sadism to the torture inflicted on scream queens sacrificed to horror movies about female hysteria.
It’s a subgenre best summed up by the dramatic question “Is this bitch haunted or just crazy?” — a cataclysmic collision of society’s sexist...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: In Defense of Female Hysteria and Cinematic Foreplay
Final girls have it rough in general. Running from chainsaws is exhausting. Hanging on meat hooks is no fun. And if you get possessed by a demon, your boyfriend just will not see you the same way. Still, there’s a special sadism to the torture inflicted on scream queens sacrificed to horror movies about female hysteria.
It’s a subgenre best summed up by the dramatic question “Is this bitch haunted or just crazy?” — a cataclysmic collision of society’s sexist...
- 2/24/2024
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
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By Todd Garbarini
In the history of cinema, it is a known fact that the producers and director of a film all have their own opinions about what a finished film should be titled. Movies generally use a working title which rarely ends up being used upon release. Even the film’s own writer invariably believes that it is his/her title that should be used with consideration given to no one else. One can only wonder how Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) would have fared at the box office had it been marketed under its original title, A Boy’s Life. Ridley Scott’s initially panned and now revered science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner (1982), its title taken from a 1979 novella by William S. Burroughs, would have found difficulty being displayed on movie marquees had it gone by the jaw-breaking title of...
By Todd Garbarini
In the history of cinema, it is a known fact that the producers and director of a film all have their own opinions about what a finished film should be titled. Movies generally use a working title which rarely ends up being used upon release. Even the film’s own writer invariably believes that it is his/her title that should be used with consideration given to no one else. One can only wonder how Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) would have fared at the box office had it been marketed under its original title, A Boy’s Life. Ridley Scott’s initially panned and now revered science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner (1982), its title taken from a 1979 novella by William S. Burroughs, would have found difficulty being displayed on movie marquees had it gone by the jaw-breaking title of...
- 9/30/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Character actor who played the psychiatrist Major Sidney Freedman in the TV comedy M*A*S*H
The long-running Us television comedy M*A*S*H, set during the Korean war, was often perceived as an allegorical look at the Vietnam war, which was still being fought when it began in 1972. But the television show focused less on the specific mindsets of Vietnam which had driven the nihilistic Robert Altman film on which it was based, and in tone was much closer to Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, with its comedic take on the intrinsic absurdity of war.
No character brought that home more clearly than Major Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist who appeared in 12 episodes over the show's 11-year run. Freedman was played by Allan Arbus, who has died aged 95. His approach to the mental health of the soldiers, and medics, at the 4077th mobile army surgical hospital unit relied...
The long-running Us television comedy M*A*S*H, set during the Korean war, was often perceived as an allegorical look at the Vietnam war, which was still being fought when it began in 1972. But the television show focused less on the specific mindsets of Vietnam which had driven the nihilistic Robert Altman film on which it was based, and in tone was much closer to Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, with its comedic take on the intrinsic absurdity of war.
No character brought that home more clearly than Major Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist who appeared in 12 episodes over the show's 11-year run. Freedman was played by Allan Arbus, who has died aged 95. His approach to the mental health of the soldiers, and medics, at the 4077th mobile army surgical hospital unit relied...
- 4/25/2013
- by Michael Carlson
- The Guardian - Film News
"M*A*S*H" actor Allan Arbus died on Friday at the age of 95.
The actor's daughter, Amy, confirmed Allan's death to the New York Times on Tuesday. He passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Friday, April 19.
Arbus' cause of death was related to complications of congestive heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"At 95, doctors didn't want to do surgery and Allan didn't want it at all," his second wife, Mariclare Costello Arbus, told Reuters. "He just slowed down. He just got weaker and weaker and was at home with his daughter and me."
Arbus was best known for playing psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman on the CBS hit series, "M*A*S*H," running from 1972 to 1983, the Hollywood Reporter notes. Since then, he made appearances in shows like "Matlock," "Law & Order," "Mad About You," "NYPD Blue" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Prior to entering the acting biz,...
The actor's daughter, Amy, confirmed Allan's death to the New York Times on Tuesday. He passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Friday, April 19.
Arbus' cause of death was related to complications of congestive heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"At 95, doctors didn't want to do surgery and Allan didn't want it at all," his second wife, Mariclare Costello Arbus, told Reuters. "He just slowed down. He just got weaker and weaker and was at home with his daughter and me."
Arbus was best known for playing psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman on the CBS hit series, "M*A*S*H," running from 1972 to 1983, the Hollywood Reporter notes. Since then, he made appearances in shows like "Matlock," "Law & Order," "Mad About You," "NYPD Blue" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Prior to entering the acting biz,...
- 4/23/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Allan Arbus -- who was best known for portraying the sarcastic psychiatrist Major Sidney Freedman on the popular '70s comedy series M*A*S*H -- has died at age 95.
Allan's daughter Amy confirmed to the New York Times that her father died Friday at his home in Los Angeles.
Related: M*A*S*H Star Harry Morgan Dies
In addition to M*A*S*H, Arbus appeared on countless classic TV shows including Taxi, The Odd Couple, Starsky & Hutch and Matlock. In more recent years, he had guest-starred on Judging Amy, NYPD Blue and Curb Your Enthusiasm. But he became most famous for his role as Freedman on M*A*S*H, despite only appearing in about a dozen episodes of the series.
Before his acting career, Arbus worked with his wife Diane Arbus (maiden name Nemerov), who became a famous photographer in her own right. Their photography business ended up securing contracts with major...
Allan's daughter Amy confirmed to the New York Times that her father died Friday at his home in Los Angeles.
Related: M*A*S*H Star Harry Morgan Dies
In addition to M*A*S*H, Arbus appeared on countless classic TV shows including Taxi, The Odd Couple, Starsky & Hutch and Matlock. In more recent years, he had guest-starred on Judging Amy, NYPD Blue and Curb Your Enthusiasm. But he became most famous for his role as Freedman on M*A*S*H, despite only appearing in about a dozen episodes of the series.
Before his acting career, Arbus worked with his wife Diane Arbus (maiden name Nemerov), who became a famous photographer in her own right. Their photography business ended up securing contracts with major...
- 4/23/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
Allan Arbus has died, aged 95.
The veteran actor was perhaps best known for his role of psychiatrist Dr Sidney Freedman on the 1970s TV series M*A*S*H.
He passed away on Friday (April 19) at his Los Angeles home, his daughter Amy Arbus told The New York Times.
He had many roles on TV, including appearances in Matlock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Law & Order and Judging Amy.
In film, he also starred in the likes of Scream, Pretty Peggy, Wc Fields and Me and Damien: Omen II. His character kills a young Robert Downey Jr in the 1972 movie Greaser's Palace.
Allan was married to the notable photographer Diane Arbus until their separation in 1956. However, they remained friends until her suicide in 1971.
He was also a credible photographer himself during his time with the Us Army, before setting up a business with Diane.
Nicole Kidman portrayed Diane Arbus in the 2006 movie Fur,...
The veteran actor was perhaps best known for his role of psychiatrist Dr Sidney Freedman on the 1970s TV series M*A*S*H.
He passed away on Friday (April 19) at his Los Angeles home, his daughter Amy Arbus told The New York Times.
He had many roles on TV, including appearances in Matlock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Law & Order and Judging Amy.
In film, he also starred in the likes of Scream, Pretty Peggy, Wc Fields and Me and Damien: Omen II. His character kills a young Robert Downey Jr in the 1972 movie Greaser's Palace.
Allan was married to the notable photographer Diane Arbus until their separation in 1956. However, they remained friends until her suicide in 1971.
He was also a credible photographer himself during his time with the Us Army, before setting up a business with Diane.
Nicole Kidman portrayed Diane Arbus in the 2006 movie Fur,...
- 4/23/2013
- Digital Spy
Allan Arbus, best known for his dozen appearances as the sarcastic psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman on the '70s series M*A*S*H, died Friday at his Los Angeles home, his daughter, photographer Amy Arbus, told The New York Times. He was 95. In addition to numerous roles on TV and in movies, from Matlock and Curb Your Enthusiasm (in 2000) to Cinderella Liberty and Damien: Omen II, the New York City native, during his military service in the army, had been a photographer - as was, notably, his wife, Diane Arbus. The two met when Allan was an employee in...
- 4/23/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
Based on the short story “Carmilla” by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) is a low-budget horror film directed by John D. Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly {1973}). It stars Zohra Lampert as Jessica, a woman who was recently released from a mental institution. Jessica, her husband Duncan (Barton Heyman) and family friend Woody (Kevin O’Connor) move to a country farmhouse on an island in Connecticut. Their reception by the residents of the small town is a cool and strange one, but doesn’t put them off. Upon their arrival at the farmhouse, the trio meets a squatting hippie named Emily (Mariclare Costello), whom they allow to stay the night. Emily suggests they have a séance and as a result, Jessica begins to hear voices.
Ultimately Emily is asked to stay indefinitely and Jessica begins to experience more strange happenings. The...
Based on the short story “Carmilla” by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) is a low-budget horror film directed by John D. Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly {1973}). It stars Zohra Lampert as Jessica, a woman who was recently released from a mental institution. Jessica, her husband Duncan (Barton Heyman) and family friend Woody (Kevin O’Connor) move to a country farmhouse on an island in Connecticut. Their reception by the residents of the small town is a cool and strange one, but doesn’t put them off. Upon their arrival at the farmhouse, the trio meets a squatting hippie named Emily (Mariclare Costello), whom they allow to stay the night. Emily suggests they have a séance and as a result, Jessica begins to hear voices.
Ultimately Emily is asked to stay indefinitely and Jessica begins to experience more strange happenings. The...
- 11/19/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
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