The Moon Is Blue Articles
HEARTS AND MINDS, Mary Pickford, Scandalous Virgins, Akira Kurosawa, Twisted Gay Love on TCM
Maggie McNamara, William Holden in Otto Preminger's scandalous The Moon Is Blue Turner Classic Movies has a lot to offer tonight and tomorrow morning. There's a lot to say about the scheduled movies, but since time is short — the first one listed below has already started, I'll be brief. First of all, don't miss Sidney Franklin's The Hoodlum, a 1919 comedy-drama that feels more [...]
Kristen Stewart, Billy Burke in ECLIPSE Clip: Bella Is a Virgin!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WeSz5aXrqU[/youtube] Kristen Stewart's Bella tells Billy Burke's Charlie that boyfriend Edward (Robert Pattinson) is "old-fashioned" in this clip from David Slade's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. (Well, Edward is a 110-year-old vampire in love with a teenager. That's totally pre-postmodernism.) Since Charlie doesn't quite get it — "What's that? Code for something?" — Bella has to spell it out: "Dad, I'm a virgin." Both her thumbs [...]
THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA: Q&A with Phil Hall
"Independent film is a vast and varied territory, and Phil Hall's remarkable book explores every inch of it with wit, intelligence, a sympathetic spirit, and a wide-open mind. Fresh discoveries and surprising revelations abound on every topic from Edison to Aronofsky, Anger to Warhol, the silent era to the Internet age. It's hard to imagine a study more keenly in tune with one of cinema's [...]