Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we steal some wine pairings for three movies where the stakes were much higher than a bottle of vino. Scratch any cinephile, and you’ll see traces of the 1955 French crime…
William Inge’s intense drama of teenage angst comes to HD with rich Technicolor hues. Elia Kazan’s film has only improved, with performances that couldn’t be bettered. For Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty’s Deanie and Bud, sexual suppression leads to emotional hysteria, all against a 1929 backdrop of prohibition and a stock market boom. Pat Hingle,…
Is he a feisty French everyman or a selfish jerk?  :Are we talking about the fictional character Antoine Doinel, or the actor Jean-Pierre Léaud? François Truffaut hit on a genuine New Wave breakthrough, combining drama with ‘interview’ material, but soon proceeded to thrillers and dramas in a standard no-nouvelle vague format. Criterion assembled DVDs of…
Resuming his career after WW2, George Stevens assumed the mantle of Hollywood’s most serious producer-director. His ‘super-western’ is a beautiful piece of filmmaking with an optimistic view of American virtues in conflict. It’s a visual delight, and a genre throwback to unrealistic fights and a hero who may as well be the god of Pioneer…
Howard Hughes’ meddling fingerprints are all over this resort-set noir thriller. Even with RKO’s dynamite stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell above the title, the mogul’s endless rewrites and re-shoots guaranteed that it couldn’t earn a profit. Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw and Raymond Burr toil in a show split between light comedy and…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we have wine pairings for three films starring an actor who is aging like a fine wine himself. My favorite JB movie is The Big Lebowski, but that’s just, like, my…
The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost 2.35:1 – 1961 – 94 Min. Radiance Films – Blu-ray Starring Yoshiko Fujishiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama Written by Tai Katô Directed by Tai Katô No silent film star ever suffered quite so much as Yoshiko Fujishiro, the star-crossed heroine of The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost. Fujishiro plays Oiwa, a prototypically obedient…
When the big boss croaks, veepees maneuver to take the top slot in a furniture company. Ernest Lehman’s first big screenplay was brought to the screen by Robert Wise and a cast of All Stars: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas, Louis Calhern, Dean Jagger and Nina…
Crime fighting gets personal in Fritz Lang’s progressive police vengeance saga. It’s Glenn Ford as an ex-cop against the mob, and his only assists come from a doomed bargirl, a handicapped woman, and the moll of mobster Lee Marvin. Every scene has tension or implied violence, much of it directed toward women. It was a…