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8 items from 2012
Cinema Retro's Jonathan Melville Reports On The Turner Classic Movies Film Festival In Hollywood
18 May 2012 8:50 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
By Jonathan Melville
Is there something about classic movie fans that makes us more obsessive than your average cinemagoer? Does the fact that we often have to search for years for that obscure Western or noir on DVD mean we're more appreciative when we finally see it? Would most of us rather watch a 1960s Bond movie at the multiplex than a modern CGI-fest?
Those are some of the questions I asked myself as I left my home (and DVD collection) in the UK to fly 5,000 miles to the third annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood over the weekend of 12-15 April 2012. A gathering of thousands of movie aficionados from around the globe, this spin-off from the Us cable TV channel promises attendees that they'll see some of the best films ever made, often in the company of the people who made them, in the way they were meant to be seen. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
The Bad and the Beautiful – review
23 April 2012 7:18 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In the early 1950s, as the big studio system breathed its last, Hollywood produced a succession of classic Tinseltown fables: Sunset Boulevard, In a Lonely Place, Singin' in the Rain, The Barefoot Contessa, A Star Is Born and, right in the middle, The Bad and the Beautiful, made in 1952 and back in the cinemas to accompany a Minnelli retrospective at the Nft. Though directed with Minnelli's characteristic delicacy, this is essentially a producer's film, made by John Houseman, one of the great figures of 20th-century American theatre and cinema. Houseman's first Hollywood job was supervising the script of Citizen Kane, his second was working for David O Selznick. In The Bad and the Beautiful, Houseman applies a similar structure, intelligence and suavity to a ruthless Hollywood genius much like Selznick as he brought to Charles Foster Kane.
An old-style Hollywood studio boss (Walter Pidgeon) brings together a movie star (Lana Turner »
- Philip French
The Bad and the Beautiful – review
19 April 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Kirk Douglas's producer backstabs his way around Hollywood in Vincente Minnelli's fascinating black comedy
Rereleased 60 years on, Vincente Minnelli's Hollywood black comedy stars Kirk Douglas as Jonathan Shields, the mercurially brilliant but widely hated producer: no one in 1952 used words like "bipolar". He is remembered in flashback, like a lower-rent Charlie Kane. Three former colleagues are approached by Walter Pidgeon's world-weary studio boss, begging them to work with Shields again: director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell) and star Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner). Each icily refuses, and we see why: three intimate personal betrayals, of increasing horror, which nonetheless furthered the victims' careers in the long run. Shields's relationship with Georgia is fascinatingly ambiguous: Georgia's actor father once gave young Shields a deflowering introduction to manhood and the business. Now, by building up Georgia, he seeks – revenge? Redemption? Hollywood here looks diabolically seductive. »
- Peter Bradshaw
Penelope Andrew: TCM Fest 2012:Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Debbie Reynolds Walk Red Carpet
12 April 2012 1:15 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
The Fountainhead with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper Photo: Courtesy of TCM
Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Tippi Hedren and Debbie Reynolds in person. Black Narcissus, Vertigo, Cabaret, and The Fountainhead projected on gigantic screens at Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian Theatres. Could any classic film fan wish for more? You could. And, at this year's annual TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place from April 12th through the 15th, you'd get more: Kirk Douglas, Stanley Donen, Angie Dickenson, Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, and Norman Jewison appearing at special events and screenings of Two for the Road, Chinatown, Casablanca, The Longest Day, and The Thomas Crown Affair. But before going on about this year's festival, a look back is essential.
Chinatown's Faye Dunaway and Jack NicholsonPhoto: Courtesy of TCM
TCM 2010 & 2011
TCM's 2010 festival featured an opening night restoration of George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland and »
- Penelope Andrew
Vincente Minnelli @ BFI
3 April 2012 4:47 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
A Vincente Minnelli season opens at BFI Southbank in London today and it is no small thing. When The Complete Vincente Minnelli ran at the BAMcinématek in New York last September, I opened a roundup and spent a month updating it (and followed up in December with another roundup on 1944's Meet Me in St Louis). With the BFI's season on through May 31, this one may be another marathon runner.
For now, the spotlight's on The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), which, as Michael Wood notes in his piece for the London Review of Books, will soon be playing in theaters throughout the UK:
The plot itself is too nifty by half, a sort of lesson in how to overdo the flashback. We see and hear three phone calls in the narrative present. A man called Jonathan Shields [Kirk Douglas] is trying to reach three Hollywood figures, a director (Barry Sullivan), an actress »
Friday Noir: A dark, morally ambiguous mission has Dick Powell ‘Cornered’ against evil
9 March 2012 7:29 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Screenplay by John Paxton, story by John Wexly
U.S.A., 1945
Of all the villains to have in a film, among the most popular are the Nazis. Cinema has always depicted the Nazis for what they were: very nasty people. Granted, some movies embellish the villainy of the organization to exaggerated heights, but given what history tells us of the party’s ideologies and how they went about putting said ideology into motion during their few years in power in the 1930s and 1940s, there is a strong case to support the notion that they do in fact make for pretty solid movie antagonists. Merely striking the Nazis in the European theatre is one thing, but hunting down those party members who fled Europe in order to find temporary hiding grounds across the globe is an altogether different matter, and possibly even more ripe for adventure and suspense. »
- Edgar Chaput
Cornel Wilde/The Big Combo, Dick Powell/Lizabeth Scott/Pitfall: Million Dollar Theater Film Noir Double Bill
4 February 2012 6:34 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo (1955) and André De Toth's Pitfall (1948, right, with Dick Powell) will be screened as a film noir double bill at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at downtown Los Angeles' historic Million Dollar Theater. I haven't watched either movie, but the Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan's warns: The Big Combo's "big, dark shadows … will eat you alive." Sounds like a must-see. Cornel Wilde stars as a cop in pursuit of crime boss Richard Conte; all the while, both cop and criminal vie for the attention of curvaceous blonde Jean Wallace, Wilde's then real-life wife. (The couple were married 1951-1981.) Also in the Big Combo cast: Robert Middleton, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Helen Walker, and Earl Holliman. Screenplay by Philip Yordan (House of Strangers, Detective Story, Johnny Guitar). In Pitfall, former Warner Bros. crooner Dick Powell plays an insurance salesman who falls for sultry Lizabeth Scott, »
- Andre Soares
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Debbie Reynolds Set For TCM Classic Film Festival In April
31 January 2012 12:25 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Passes Now on Sale Now for Four-Day Festival,
Coming to Hollywood April 12-15, 2012
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Debbie Reynolds and “Baby Peggy” Diana Serra Cary, along with film noir leading ladies Peggy Cummins, Rhonda Fleming and Marsha Hunt are the latest stars scheduled to appear at the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival.
Also announced today, the festival will feature the North American premiere of a new 75th anniversary restoration of Jean Renoir’s powerful Pow drama Grand Illusion (1937), widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. And the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will provide a live musical accompaniment for a screening of the silent Douglas Fairbanks fantasy-adventure The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
Minnelli and Grey are slated to join TCM’s own Robert Osborne to kick off the four-day, star-studded event with a gala opening-night world premiere screening of the 40th anniversary restoration Cabaret (1971), the film for which the »
- Michelle McCue
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