The interview w/ Alexandre Philippe the director of 78/52 about the shower scene from Psycho took place on May 6th, 2017 during the Hot Docs Documentary Festival in Toronto conducted by Shael Stolberg for FILMbutton. – Original Posted in May, 2017
Screening December 14, 2016 DENVER – “A man don’t go his own way, he’s nothing.” Audiences can go their own way to cinemas when Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Sony Pictures Entertainment bring the compelling war-time drama From Here to Eternity (1953) back to the big screen for a special two-day event this […]
David Lynch’s postmodern suburban nightmare was the director’s critical and commercial breakthrough, introducing his uniquely twisted vision and offbeat humour to a wider audience. Returning to his picture-perfect hometown after his father suffers a stroke, clean-cut, Hardy Boy-ish hero Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle McLachlan) discovers a severed ear in a field, and is soon plunged into […]
At the time of its first release in 1960, “Spartacus” was hailed as the first intellectual epic since the silent days – the first Roman or Biblical saga to deal with ideas as well as spectacle. Even the ending was daring. The crucified hero is denied a conventional victory, and has to be consoled with […]
Screening Time – Sunday, Dec 6 @1:15pm During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership. Ryan O’Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this very bright, very warm, and very funny period film […]
http://www.theroyal.to/films/neon-dreams-cinema-club-phantom-paradise/ “He sold his soul for rock-n-roll,” read the tagline for Brian De Palma’s satirical Phantom of the Opera for the ’70s rock scene. After hearing Winslow Leach (William Finley) perform a song from his Faust rock opera, Phil Spector-ish impresario Swan (Paul Williams) decides that Winslow’s opera would be the perfect debut attraction for […]
Review by Bill Mann at The Guardian IMDb, the movie site, says nothing about blubbing. No warning to keep the tissues at the ready. In fact, Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero (1983) is often described as a comedy. Quirky, wry, gentle. Those are the other words most commonly used. Weepy, no. And the storyline does not […]
Carol Reed’s Film Noir masterpiece THE THIRD MAN (1949), starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, will run at Film Forum from Friday, June 26 through Thursday, July 9 (two weeks), in a new 4K restoration – its first major restoration ever. In rubble-strewn postwar Vienna, pulp Western writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives […]
Carol Reed’s Film Noir masterpiece THE THIRD MAN (1949), starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, will run at Film Forum from Friday, June 26 through Thursday, July 9 (two weeks), in a new 4K restoration – its first major restoration ever.
Review by David Ehrlich from Film.com It’s appropriate, and perhaps almost necessary, that John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is ultimately a very good film that’s dying to be great. The final chapter in Frankenheimer’s informal Paranoia Trilogy, (the other installments being The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May), Seconds is the best and certainly the most […]
