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‘Baby Doll’ – one of the sexiest films ever made
10 May 2013 12:10 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Directed by Elia Kazan
Written by Tennessee Williams
1956, USA
Two of Tennessee Williams’ one-act plays – Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short – are the basis for Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll. The film stars Karl Malden as a sexually frustrated, dimwitted, middle-aged owner of a Southern cotton gin, and Carroll Baker (in her debut) as his luscious teenage-trophy wife, who desperately holds on to her virginity until she reaches the age of 20. Her nickname is “Baby Doll” – appropriate, since she sleeps alone in a baby crib, sucking her thumb and wearing only a short nightie, as her husband Archie spies on her through a hole in the wall. Eli Wallach (also making his first big screen appearance) shows up as a a shady Sicilian businessman named Silva Vacarro, who takes advantage of Archie’s troubles and tries to claim Baby Doll as “compensation” for »
- Ricky da Conceição
Milo O'Shea obituary
4 April 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Irish stage and screen character actor who appeared in Barbarella, The Verdict and the BBC's 1969 sitcom Me Mammy
For a performer of such fame and versatility, the distinguished Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, who has died aged 86, is not associated with any role in particular, or indeed any clutch of them. He was chiefly associated with his own expressive dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, outstanding mimetic talents and distinctive Dublin brogue.
His impish presence irradiated countless fine movies – including Joseph Strick's Ulysses (1967), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982) – and many top-drawer American television series, from Cheers, The Golden Girls and Frasier, right through to The West Wing (2003-04), in which he played the chief justice Roy Ashland.
He had settled in New York in 1976 with his second wife, Kitty Sullivan, in order to be equidistant from his own main bases of operation, Hollywood and London. The »
- Michael Coveney
Milo O'Shea obituary
3 April 2013 12:26 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Irish stage and screen character actor who appeared in Barbarella, The Verdict and the BBC's 1969 sitcom Me Mammy
For a performer of such fame and versatility, the distinguished Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, who has died aged 86, is not associated with any role in particular, or indeed any clutch of them. He was chiefly associated with his own expressive dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, outstanding mimetic talents and distinctive Dublin brogue.
His impish presence irradiated countless fine movies – including Joseph Strick's Ulysses (1967), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982) – and many top-drawer American television series, from Cheers, The Golden Girls and Frasier, right through to The West Wing (2003-04), in which he played the chief justice Roy Ashland.
He had settled in New York in 1976 with his second wife, Kitty Sullivan, in order to be equidistant from his own main bases of operation, Hollywood and London. The »
- Michael Coveney
R.I.P. Milo O'Shea, Irish actor of Ulysses, The West Wing, and more
3 April 2013 10:24 AM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Milo O’Shea, the Dublin-born, ferociously eyebrowed actor who helped bring James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and Barbarella to movie screens in the 1960s, has died at the age of 86. O’Shea started his career on the Irish stage, before getting his breakout movie role as Leo Bloom in Joseph Strick’s controversial 1967 adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. A year later, he scored with British audiences in the BBC sitcom Me Mammy, which ran for three seasons and 21 episodes from 1968 to 1971. That same year, he made his Broadway debut co-starring with Eli Wallach in Staircase »
7 Actors Who Beat Their Star Persona
25 February 2013 4:35 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
When it comes to cinematic performance, there are two common types of modern actors. There are the method actors and those with a star persona. There are also theatrical actors, but these are practically extinct in the film and television world of today. Method actors are what are often labeled as chameleons. They are actors who are capable of inhabiting any role by being a character rather than pretending to be one. This is achieved through the method of isolating personal experiences, memories, and psychology and personifying it onto their role. Actors like these include Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Eli Wallach, Viggo Mortensen, Daniel Day Lewis, and the list continues.
A common misconception is that method actors are ones who are unidentifiable from one role to the next. Daniel Day Lewis’ Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood is nearly the antithesis of his Abraham Lincoln. »
- Alex Aagaard
7 Actors Who Should Saddle Up For The Magnificent Seven Remake
12 February 2013 1:29 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
With upcoming remakes from its extensive back catalogue, including Robocop and Carrie in production, MGM studios plans to resurrect another classic: John Sturges’ 1960 western The Magnificent Seven.
For anyone who hasn’t watched television on a rainy public holiday in the last few decades, it’s a story about seven gunmen hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from ruthless bandits led by Eli Wallach’s Calvera. Tom Cruise has been attached to lead and fill Yul Brynner’s spur jangling boots but who will join him in completing one of the most famous line ups in cinema history? My potential gunslingers are ones I thought could fill (or attempt to anyway) the boots of the original cast, work well together and be as cool as the proverbial cucumber…
7. Chico – Gael Garcia Bernal
Horst Buchholz played the inexperienced Mexican hothead Chico who desperately wants to join the seven. »
- Kristopher Powell
You've been Djangoed! Ten Spaghetti Cowboys that shaped the genre
21 January 2013 12:45 AM, PST | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Keeping up with his career plan of paying homage to every film genre going, Quentin Tarantino has moved onto the spaghetti western with Django Unchained (2012). It’s not a remake of the pasta classic Django (1966), or indeed a spaghetti western, but it has clearly taken its inspiration from those violent Italian productions that swamped the late sixties.
Hollywood may have dominated the field since the beginning of motion pictures but European westerns are not exactly new; the earliest known one was filmed in 1910. Sixties German cinema made good use of Kay May’s western heroes Shatterhand and Winnetou, and the British produced The Savage Guns (1961), Hannie Caulder (1971), A Town Called Bastard (1971), Catlow (1971), Chato’s Land (1972) and Eagle’s Wing (1979). When the genre showed signs of flagging in the mid-sixties, a clever Italian director named Sergio Leone took it upon himself to reinvent the western – spaghetti style!
What made the spaghettis »
Looking back at Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy
17 January 2013 3:12 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature Paul Martinovic Jan 18, 2013
With Django Unchained out now in the UK, Paul looks back at Sergio Leone's classic Dollars trilogy that helped inspire it...
Howard Hawks, one of the most successful Western directors of all time and a key influence on Sergio Leone, once said a great movie can be defined as one with "three great scenes, and no bad ones." There can be few directors who understood the power of great scenes quite as strongly as Leone, the director of the Dollars trilogy and de facto godfather of the spaghetti western.
Some might argue his emphasis on great individual moments was to his detriment, as the MacGuffin-laden plots of his films seem to exist mainly as devices on which he can hang his elaborate setpieces, and were subsequently labeled as exercises in pure style. While the artistic and intellectual merits of the three films are up for debate, »
- ryanlambie
Interview: Martin Landau Lends His Voice to ‘Frankenweenie’
15 January 2013 8:40 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – One of director Tim Burton’s great actor collaborators is the veteran performer Martin Landau. Landau voices Mr. Rsykruski, a science teacher who inspires young Victor Frankenstein in “Frankenweenie,” released on Blu-Ray on January 8th. This is part of Laudau’s magnificent 60 year career in film, television, stage and acting instruction.
It’s difficult to sum up Landau’s career because of it’s depth and breadth. The 84 year old actor was born in Brooklyn, New York, and had an early interest in cartooning for newspapers. He worked as an illustrator for the New York Daily News for five years, before the acting bug bit him. He was in an exceptional era and place for the craft, as Lee Strasberg’s Actor’s Studio was being formulated, and out of the 2000 applicants for 1955 only two were selected – Martin Landau and Steve McQueen. From there he began a stage career in Manhattan, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
DVD Review - Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
14 January 2013 10:38 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Django, Prepare a Coffin (Italian: Preparati la bara!), 1968.
Directed by Ferinando Baldi.
Starring Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Jose Torres and Pinuccio Ardia.
Synopsis:
After the cold-blooded execution of his wife, a lone gun-slinger, Django (Hill), becomes a vigilant for a town at the mercy of his wife’s murderer.
With increasing publicity for the Spaghetti Western genre (specifically those with the name “Django” in the title) thanks to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, there has never been a better time to seek out the 60s classics. It is worth noting that despite being advertised as a sequel to the Franco Nero-led Django, Django Prepare a Coffin seems more like a prequel with only a few corresponding features.
Django (recommended viewing before this film) has the essentials of many popular cult films – a cheap yet pleasing tone. Likewise, Ferdinando Baldi’s sequel/prequel is rife with dozens of embarrassing nuances though enjoyable nonetheless. »
- flickeringmyth
Making Of The West: Mythmakers and truth-tellers
3 January 2013 6:16 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The “adult” Western – as it would come to be called – was a long time coming. A Hollywood staple since the days of The Great Train Robbery (1903), the Western offered spectacle and action set against the uniquely American milieu of the Old West – a historical period which, at the dawn of the motion picture industry, was still fresh in the nation’s memory. What the genre rarely offered was dramatic substance.
Early Westerns often adopted the same traditions of the popular Wild West literature and dime novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries producing, as a consequence, highly romantic, almost purely mythic portraits the Old West. Through the early decades of the motion picture industry, the genre went through several creative cycles, alternately tilting from fanciful to realistic and back again. By the early sound era, and despite such serious efforts as The Big Trail (1930) and The Virginian (1929), Hollywood Westerns were, »
- Bill Mesce
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