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Julie Harris, 1925-2013 25 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Among her many other achievements (many of which are listed here), the great Harris was an arguably unlikely scream queen and an undeniably brilliant one. Above, in Robert Wise's The Haunting, 1963.
The current cinema 22 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
Two swell ones out this weekend: Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster and Edgar Wright's The World's End, the latter featuring Simon Pegg, who's seen above as his character in the film experiences deep deni...
Elmore Leonard, 1925-2013 20 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
I was at the after-party, or as they used to call it back then, the party, for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown in 1997, at this nice nightspot in Times Square that I think was called ...
The "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" of race relation movies? 14 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
Jane Fonda and Alan Rickman as Nancy and Ronald Reagan in Lee Daniels' The Butler. Leslie Nielsen did not return from the dead to play the white-haired fellow behind them. And the movie is the above-s...
5+1 transcendent movie theater experiences I've had over the past 12 months 10 Aug 2013 | 03:10 am
James Stewart as Wyatt Earp, with Arthur Kennedy as Doc Holliday, about to deal with a rude interruption of their direct experience of poker in Cheyenne Autumn, John Ford, 1963. After I posted my pi....
Karen Black, 1939-2013 9 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
In The Outfit, John Flynn, 1973. Of all the great performers prominent in American cinema in the 1970s, Karen Black embodied the most pleasing paradox: she had a screen presence so entirely particula...
The myth of the consecrated movie theater 8 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, 1955 The digital guru and blogger Anil Dash has raised hackles in cinephile circles today with a lengthy and rhetorically free-wheeling (to say the least) post ...
"Seconds" and the semiotics of Rock Hudson 8 Aug 2013 | 12:55 am
Seconds was not a hit when it was first released in the fall of 1966, but I recall interest in the movie being kind of high in my household at the time, when I was seven. My parents were not what one ...
The staggering modernity of "Intolerance" 1 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Mae Marsh loses focus near the end of Intolerance (n.b., this screen capture is not from the newly restored Cohen version). If you have not seen D.W. Griffith's Intolerance since film school, or film...
But I was there... 1 Aug 2013 | 07:18 am
I wasn't going to post about this, but a few of my phone pictures from the final evening of my 1980s- and-beyond home away from home Maxwell's came out pretty well, and apparently it was an historical...
