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A Suprise Birthday Gift from LIFE Magazine

By Richard Horgan on April 2, 2014 7:00 PM Tomorrow would have been Marlon Brando‘s 90th birthday. To mark the occasion, Time has raided the Life magazine vaults to showcase 15 bonus photos of the actor. The photos are from a 1949 Life shoot done in Los Angeles by Ed Clark, during the making of The […]

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

John Glen directed this throwback to the costume dramas of the 1930s and 1940s, but without a smidgen of their energy and verve. George Corraface plays Christopher Columbus as a dynamic and muscular comic-book hero. He has a dream to set sail to find a new passageway to India, but he needs the backing of […]

RIP Dick Smith, Makeup Artist of The Godfather and so many more

By WILLIAM YARDLEY (New York Times) AUG. 1, 2014   Dick Smith, who made flesh peel from famous actors’ faces, who made the young old and the beautiful hideous and who transformed a girl into a particularly possessed tween — all while working as one of film and television’s most original and accomplished makeup artists, died on Wednesday […]

‘Hangover Square’ is a deliciously warped little gem

Hangover Square/1945/20th Century-Fox/77 min. Last Thursday at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, I saw “Hangover Square” from 1945 and what a deliciously warped little gem it is! (It was on a double bill with “Psycho” as part of the series honoring composer Bernard Herrmann.) “Hangover Square” stars the spellbindingly sexy and exquisitely stunning Linda […]

Can’t find Mr. Right? Mr. Bright might be right in front of you

A friend of mine was recently fixed up with a guy who said he loved music and liked to travel. He was a truck driver who listened to the radio. Another friend went on a blind date with an Irish dentist, who turned out to have a lovely brogue, but no front teeth. Seriously. Despite […]

Criterion Collection to release the restored masterpiece One Eyed Jacks

  For more details click here https://www.criterion.com/films/28979-one-eyed-jacks?q=autocomplete New 4K digital restoration undertaken by Universal in partnership with The Film Foundation and supervised by filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New introduction by Scorsese Excerpts from voice recordings director and star Marlon Brando made during the film’s script development New […]

Candy

In this big-budget adaptation of Terry Southern’s satiric sex farce (the sort of project that could get an immediate green light in the late 1960’s and at practically no other time before or since), Ewa Aulin is Candy, a sweet young woman who doesn’t seem entirely aware of the powerful sexual desire she brings out […]

What’s new at the Aero and the Egyptian in February

There’s much classic and neo noir to choose from this month at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. Highlights at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica include: # Director Christopher Nolan appears at the Egyptian’s “Memento” screening to mark the film’s Blu-ray launch; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4. # […]

The Godfather featured in American Cinematheque’s Movie Crime Dynasties

Attention The Godfather fans in Los Angeles: The American Cinematheque will be showing The Godfather at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica March 26. Come see great movie at a great venue! www.americancinemathequecalender.com/content/the-godfather-7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjPmaneLadQ

Phil Stern, Photographer Who Shot Top Stars, Dies at 95

If you’ve enjoyed photos of Marlon Brando from the mid 1950s (most notably on the sets of The Wild One and Guys and Dolls) you’ve no doubt enjoyed the fantastic photography of Mr. Phil Stern. A legend in the business of celebrity photography from Hollywood’s golden era, a google images search will take you down […]

COL•COA welcomes Blier for ‘The Clink of Ice’ premiere

The Clink of Ice/2011/87 min. In film noir, Fate bides its time and waits patiently for opportunity. In acclaimed writer/director Bertrand Blier’s new black comedy, Fate — in the form of cancer — barges in, bosses characters around and jumps into bed with them. “The Clink of Ice” made its West Coast premiere on Thursday night […]

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