Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

[...] care. ********************************************* Which brings us to the Strange Case of Brian De Palma. The man who directed masterpieces like Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Carlito’s Way and [...]

[...] her and her mother, the psychotic zealot Margaret White, were dramatically unsatisfying. Brian De Palma’s 1976 movie, with Sissy Spacek  in the starring role in a screenplay adaptation [...]

[...] figures over at TCM’s Movie Morlocks, to continue and wrap up the discussion of Brian De Palma’s Carrie that began last week. Today the discussion ranges from the influences that might [...]

[...] with Don, producer Corey Sienega, actors Debbie Lee Carrington and Steve West and, of course, Jennifer Tilly. The evening remains one of my fondest memories of Life During Blogging not only for the [...]

[...] silly charges of nepotism through the sheer force of her performance, which stands alongside Jennifer Tilly’s as the best in the series. Plus, she’s a really good screamer. And then there& [...]

[...] much more brazen tonal twist. With the introduction of Tiffany (the marvelously inimitable Jennifer Tilly) as the girlfriend and eventual bride of Chucky, a.k.a. serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad [...]

[...] by Don. Night two was dedicated to the spawn of Charles Lee Ray, with Don, actors Jennifer Tilly, Steve West and Debbie Lee Carrington, and producer Corey Sienega all on stage for a [...]

[...] of often melodious, often contradictory impulses generated by the world of the film itself, Robert Altman has to be at the top. Altman changed not only the way I saw movies-- his movies helped change [...]

[...] mosaic of American individualism and its narcissistic underbelly more effortlessly than Robert Altman’s Nashville. It’s so alive, so hypnotic in its offhanded and overheard style of [...]

[...] , as a filmmaker and on Earth, the first person that came to mind was my favorite director, Robert Altman, and the film that capped his gloriously inconsistent and unpredictable career, A Prairie Home [...]

[...] derived from film noir, and it anticipates as well the skillful, naturalistic weave of Robert Altman in its approach to telling the stories of its working-class neighborhood, which spark [...]

[...] ** (Electra Glide in Blue screens Friday and Saturday night, April 12 & 13, at the New Beverly Cinema here in Los Angeles, the front half of a "Something Old, Something New" [...]

[...] in my own life that are not now what they once were. In September it was announced that the New Beverly Cinema was being taken over by Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and that Michael Torgan [...]

[...] , I suppose it really is. Last evening, August 31, 2014, marked the final screening at the New Beverly Cinema to have been overseen by the theater's manager, programmer and all-around heart and soul [...]

[...] in the same moment, making meaning with each new apprehensive breath. Friday night the New Beverly Cinema was filled with like-minded admirers sitting among those who had never seen it on the big [...]

[...] 6) Second favorite Carol Reed movie 7) Oddest moment/concept in rock music cinema 8) Favorite movie about growing up 9) Most welcomed nudity, full or partial, in a movie (question submitted by  [...]

[...] when you overhear him start to diss Last Year at Marienbad, which just happens to be your favorite movie. Yes, there is only one man on the teaching staff here who we feel is up to that Herculean, [...]

[...] with Alexander for so damn long, and at this point it’s probably my favorite movie. I loved Nixon too, and I appreciate that it’s the one you think most [...]

[...] #7  (Jamie Grijalba) #6 (Kevin Cecil) #5 (Steve Carlson) #4 (Jason Alley) #3 (Michael Lieberman) #2 (Kenji Fujishima) And your 2012 Muriels Film of [...]

[...] #52 (Steve Carlson) #43 (Christianne Benedict) #33 (tie) (Brian Whitefield) #25 (Scott Von Doviak) #23 (Cole [...]

[...] Lotti on Ann Dowd in Compliance, Kenji Fujishima on Anne Marsen in Girl Walk // All Day, Steve Carlson on Juno Temple in Killer Joe, and Yours Truly taking the stand for my annual off-the-wall pick, [...]

[...] award, highlighting great achievements from a half-century previous. In that spirit, Clark and Steve Carlson have initiated the Muriels Hall of Fame to keep the spotlight more firmly fixed on the [...]

[...] as an introduction to this morning’s beautiful DCP presentation of the movie. When the TCM Classic Film Festival schedule was first announced, only Jon Voight had been lined up to participate in the [...]

Well, the day has finally arrived. In a couple of hours, after finishing up my office work and the last of the housework, time to hop the train to Hol [...]

[...]     Last year at the TCM Classic Film festival I had a filmgoing Friday for the ages—seven movies starting at 9:00 a.m. and [...]

[...] The Lady Vanishes and now this one, she must be considered the great anti-heroine of the TCM Classic Film Festival. As for It Always Rains on Sunday, its subject may not be exactly uplifting, but the [...]

[...] ) It begins with Carax himself getting out of bed, walking through a wall and into a movie theater, where he will project for us (and onto us) sights we couldn’t possibly anticipate or [...]

[...] satiric rendering-- and maybe having a laugh at the folks singing and dancing in the movie theater, too).   (Brian Doan) “As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going [...]

[...] ;Where will we be able to find you in the future?” I remember part of my answer: Any movie theater where the lights have gone down and a movie is being shown. But a 16-year-old movie fan in [...]

[...] so I could tell him how crazy I was about his movie. In 1987 I actually did bump into him in a movie theater, but I restrained myself. And I suspect I will do so again tomorrow night. But, man, of all [...]