Frank Sinatra on TCM
Bobby-soxer-turned-blue-haired-matron idol Frank Sinatra will have his "Summer Under the Stars" day on Friday, Aug. 28.
Turner Classic Movies will show twelve of the actor-singer films, the best of which is On the Town, a zesty musical about three sailors and their three girls (four, if you include Alice Pearce) spending a day together in New York City. The three guys — Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Jules Munshin (above) — are all likable and fine, but it’s the female quartet that does it for me: in addition to Pearce, there’s Vera-Ellen, Betty Garrett, and Ann Miller. In my view, those women are the ones who should have been the superstars of Hollywood musicals of the ’40s and ’50s. Anyhow, Kelly [...]
by Andre Soares | August 23, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, High Society, On the Town, Shirley MacLaine, Some Came Running, Summer Under the Stars, The Kissing Bandit, Turner Classic Movies
SAG Awards 2009: Susan Sarandon, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine
Susan Sarandon, Emile Hirsch
Kate Winslet, Freida Pinto
Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine
Photos: Kevin Mazur
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by Deborah Arthur | January 26, 2009
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Tags: Emile Hirsch, Film Awards, Freida Pinto, Kate Winslet, Photos, SAG Awards, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon
Robert Mitchum Interviewed by Roger Ebert
Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter
Via Rogerebert.com:
"He [Robert Mitchum] was my favorite movie star, and my favorite interview. He would tell you anything. He fearlessly maligned his directors, co-stars, even actors he had never worked with. ([Steve] McQueen? ‘He doesn’t bring much to the party.’) He was once called ‘the embodiment of film noir,’ and that was about right.
"In ‘From the Archives’ this week, I’m reprinting four of the seven or eight interviews I did with Mitch. The first three take place between 1969 and 1971, during and after he made Ryan’s Daughter. The fourth is at a tribute some 20 years later. You get a sense of his irreverence, his refusal to take himself seriously, [...]
by Andre Soares | December 6, 2007
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Tags: Charles Laughton, Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Out of the Past, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wise, Roger Ebert, Shirley MacLaine, The Night of the Hunter, The Sundowners
Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2006
2006 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2006 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 5-16, 2006
Set in French Indochina shortly before World War II, Minh Nguyen-Vo’s Buffalo Boy depicts the coming-of-age journey of a teenager while transporting his family’s buffalos to safer pastures during the region’s seasonal floods. The line-up of the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival included 232 films from more than 70 countries. Among the festival highlights were Breno Silveira’s Two Sons of Francisco, one of Brazil’s biggest box-office hits ever (and the cause of much consternation to Brazilian President Lula, who was caught watching a pirated DVD of the film); Cristina Comencini’s Don’t Tell, a drama about the consequences of incest-rape and Italy’s submission [...]
by Andre Soares | January 15, 2006
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Tags: Buffalo Boy, Charlize Theron, David Cronenberg, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael London, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Palm Springs Film Festival, Shirley MacLaine
