STAGECOACH Screening
Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” Directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor, Stagecoach will be presented on Monday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The film will be introduced by John Ford’s grandson, Dan Ford.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the evening will also feature the second and third chapters of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, in addition to the animated short The Film Fan, [...]
by Andre Soares | May 27, 2009
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN d: Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Direction: Ang Lee
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; from E. Annie Proulx’s short story
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Kate Mara
Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is without a doubt a culturally significant motion picture. The same-sex romantic drama has won numerous awards, has been discussed all over the media, and has been labeled "groundbreaking" by numerous film critics. Of course, the fact that those critics’ knowledge of film history only goes as far back as Revenge of the Sith should not be held against Lee’s film. Yet, except for a few touching moments in its second half Brokeback Mountain fails to become fully involving chiefly because its central relationship — between a [...]
by Andre Soares | December 4, 2005
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Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Film Reviews, Gay Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Romantic Movies, Three-Star Gay Movies, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Westerns
IN OLD ARIZONA – Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe
In Old Arizona (1928)
Direction: Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings
Screenplay: Tom Barry; from O. Henry’s (aka William Sidney Porter) 1907 short story "The Caballero’s Way"
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess
TIRED IN THE SADDLE
What makes Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh’s In Old Arizona (barely) watchable decades after its highly successful initial release is its sheer bizarreness. Technically, the picture, billed as the first outdoor talkie, is of interest solely as a museum piece. Despite the use of the American Southwest’s wide-open spaces as background, In Old Arizona is really not that different from other static, slow-moving, and poorly acted films of the period. From a thematic standpoint, however, this racy Western is a must-see because of its in-your-face pre-Production Code sensibility, [...]
by Andre Soares | September 14, 2004
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Tags: Classic Movies, Dorothy Burgess, Edmund Lowe, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, In Old Arizona, Irving Cummings, Oscar 1929, Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Hollywood, Raoul Walsh, Warner Baxter, Westerns
