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In NCIS: Origins, the clock is ticking, and a promise hangs in the balance. “Last Rites” finds Gibbs and Franks in a race against time to extract a confession from a death row inmate. With an execution looming, they need to uncover the location of a missing body and fulfill a pledge made to the […]

NCIS: Origins: Last Rites (S1 E05) – Gibbs, Franks, and a Race Against the Clock?...

Prepare for a Halloween night filled with scares, costumes, and scream queens at the Scream Queen Halloween Party, a special event for horror fans and Halloween lovers. Taking place at the Occ Road House & Museum on October 31st, this free event promises an evening of horror-themed festivities featuring some of the most iconic scream queens in the industry, a costume contest, and live music.

Hosted by Tampa Bay Screams, Occ Road House, and Berts Barracuda Harley-Davidson, the Scream Queen Halloween Party will bring a touch of Hollywood horror to Clearwater. Horror fans will have the chance to meet three celebrated scream queens who have made their mark in the genre: Nancy Alexander, Krista Grotte Saxon, and April Hunter. Known for their roles in cult films and thrillers, these leading ladies will be available for meet-and-greet sessions, autograph signings, and will judge the evening’s costume contest.

Nancy Alexander, known for...

Rick Danford’s new horror film, The Clock is available just in time for Halloween from Bayview Entertainment. Look for it on Prime Video, FlixFling, Chilling, and more. Is that the sound of a ticking timepiece or your heart beating overtime? Find out in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that tells the blood-curdling tale of strange things that [...]

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Floridians take their horror seriously, gladly braving the sweltering June weather for the 9th annual Tampa Bay Screams horror convention last weekend in Pinellas Park, Fl. The event turned the modest Pinellas Park Performing Art Center into a buzzing den of frightful fanatics browsing eclectic collections, meeting stars, and discussing their beloved horror scene.

This convention was a great display of passionate, resilient, horror fans making their twisted ideas a reality. The heat and sporadic thunderstorms made the space feel all the more like a sanctuary for the weird and weary. After a few tumultuous years for the state of the arts in Florida, many event attendees were relieved to see a revival of sorts at Tampa Bay Screams.

“The Tampa Bay Screams June 2024 edition had a lot to live up to from what founder Sean Donohue had established,” said Tampa Bay Screams owner and organizer Andy L. “A lot...

Bayview Entertainment acquires the horror – thriller The Clock from Florida based writer / director, Rick Danford.

The Clock – After Mike and Sara bring home a grandfather clock, strange and frightening things begin to happen. As the incidents become more sinister, they learn that their clock, may be much more than they bargained for.

“When we saw The Clock, we knew it had a certain something that made it special” – Peter Castro – VP of acquisition at Bayview Entertainment

Rick Danford is a horror entrepreneur who runs the Indie Horror Junkie Magazine, Podcast, and Film Festival.

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Bayview Entertainment acquires the horror – thriller The Clock from Florida based writer / director, Rick Danford. The Clock – After Mike and Sara bring home a grandfather clock, strange and frightening things begin to happen. As the incidents become more sinister, they learn that their clock, may be much more than they bargained for. …

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Acclaimed filmmaker, podcaster, and movie journalist Rick Danford creates a love letter to the horror films and classic radio shows he enjoyed as a child.

BayView Entertainment LLC is proud to announce its distribution of the upcoming film, The Clock from writer-director Rick Danford. The thriller tells the blood-curdling tale of strange things that happen when a couple bring an ancient Grandfather Clock into their home. Will they solve the mystery of its sinister origins before time runs out?!

Released under BayView Entertainment’s Vipco label, the film pays homage to the many creepy, creaky old house horrors Rick Danford enjoyed as a child, from such movie producers as Hammer Films, Amicus, Aip, New World Pictures, and Full Moon Features.

It also keys in to one of the elements that can make a horror film so memorable: sound. With good reason.

“As a kid I always loved old time radio shows,...

Fox’s The Cleaning Lady season three episode six finally revealed Arman’s tragic fate. Episode seven will find Thony dealing with the aftermath of his death. “Velorio” airs on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Elodie Yung leads the cast as Thony, Martha Millan plays Fiona, Kate del Castillo is Ramona Sanchez, and Eva De Dominici is Nadia. Santiago Cabrera plays Jorge, Faith Bryant is Jaz, and Sean Lew plays Chris. Mayans Mc‘s Clayton Cardenas guest stars as Dante.

“Velorio” Plot: Ramona grows increasingly more apprehensive of Thony’s involvement in Arman’s life and suspects Thony and Nadia of jeopardizing her and Jorge’s plans. Meanwhile, Jeremy volunteers to install security equipment at Fiona’s house.

Elodie Yung and guest star Clayton Cardenas in ‘The Cleaning Lady’ season 3 episode 7 (Photo by Jeff Neumann © 2024 Fox Media LLC)

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The stakes in season three are...

[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for The Cleaning Lady Season 3 Episode 6, “El Reloj.”] The Cleaning Lady has revealed what happened to Adan Canto’s Arman. As we previously learned, the character was kidnapped after the shootout at the air hangar in the season premiere. The Cleaning Lady Season 3 Episode 6 at last revealed who took him, and it officially wrote Canto’s character out of the show. Canto, who has played Arman since Season 1, died on January 8, 2024, after a private battle with cancer. He was 42 years old. The episode began with Ramona (Kate del Castillo) losing her patience waiting for Arman’s, her nephew’s, safe return. “I’ve waited too long,” she ominously said while looking into a fire, a dark omen. It then flashed back to a teen Arman on his birthday, showing Ramona’s rocky relationship with Arman’s father, who told her to stay away from his son because of her cartel money.

The Cleaning Lady is getting closer to revealing what will happen to Arman, played by the late Adan Canto. In the TV Insider exclusive clip from Tuesday’s episode (April 9), Jorge (Santiago Cabrera) gives Thony (Élodie Yung) a major update on Arman’s wellbeing and the status of his possible exchange. Time is of the essence if they’re going to get him back alive from his cartel captors. The Cleaning Lady Season 3 Episode 6 is titled “El Reloj.” The title is a reference to a Roberto Cantoral song that Arman is heard reciting on a voicemail. “Clock, don’t count the hours, ’cause I’m going crazy,” Arman says through garbled speech. “She’ll leave forever when the morning comes again.” Thony says he sounds like he’s been drugged. As Jorge replies, “Judging from the vial you found in the van, probably has been since they took him. So...

The search for answers as to happened to Arman continues on Fox’s The Cleaning Lady season three episode six. “El Reloj” will air on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Elodie Yung leads the cast as Thony, Martha Millan plays Fiona, Kate del Castillo is Ramona Sanchez, and Eva De Dominici is Nadia. Santiago Cabrera plays Jorge, Faith Bryant is Jaz, and Sean Lew plays Chris. Mayans Mc‘s Clayton Cardenas guest stars as Dante.

“El Rejoj” Plot: Thony gets a new lead on Arman’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, Ramona tries to cut a deal with Nadia, and Luca attends his first day of school.

Martha Millan and Élodie Yung in ‘The Cleaning Lady’ season 3 episode 6 (Photo by Jeff Neumann © 2024 Fox Media LLC)

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The stakes in season three are higher and more intense than ever. This season, Thony turns her efforts to bringing Fiona back...

The Cleaning Lady fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 3 Episode 6 episode titled El Reloj!

Find out everything you need to know about the El Reloj episode of The Cleaning Lady, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

The Cleaning Lady El Reloj Season 3 Episode 6 Preview

Get ready for an intense and thrilling episode of The Cleaning Lady titled “El Reloj,” airing on Fox at 8:00 Pm on April 9, 2024. In this highly anticipated installment, viewers will be treated to a whirlwind of developments as the story unfolds.

As tensions rise, Thony, portrayed by Elodie Yung, receives a promising new lead on the whereabouts of Arman, adding a new layer of intrigue to her quest for justice. Meanwhile, Ramona, played by Adan Canto, finds herself navigating treacherous waters as she attempts to strike a deal with Nadia, portrayed by Martha Millan,...

Get ready for another intense episode of “The Cleaning Lady” as Season 3 Episode 6, titled “El Reloj,” hits the screens on Fox. Scheduled for 8:00 Pm on Tuesday, April 9th, 2024, this installment promises to keep viewers glued to their seats with its gripping storyline.

In “El Reloj,” Thony receives a new lead on the whereabouts of Arman, adding a new layer of suspense to the ongoing search. Meanwhile, Ramona finds herself in a tight spot and attempts to negotiate a deal with Nadia, raising the stakes even higher for the characters.

Additionally, viewers can expect to see Luca embarking on a significant milestone as he attends his first day of school. With tensions mounting and new developments unfolding, this episode of “The Cleaning Lady” is sure to deliver thrills, twists, and emotional moments that will leave fans eagerly anticipating the next installment. Don’t miss out on the drama and excitement...

Brace yourself for an extraordinary journey into the depths of terror and horror as renowned indie writer and director Rick Danford breathes new life into an old-time radio show with his highly anticipated feature film, “The Clock.” Prepare to be captivated and chilled to the core as this haunting tale unravels, enveloping audiences in a spine-tingling atmosphere of fear and suspense.

“The Clock” transports viewers into a harrowing realm of darkness, where the innocuous act of acquiring an antique grandfather clock by a young couple sets in motion an avalanche of ghastly events. What initially appeared to be a harmless purchase swiftly transforms into a living nightmare as the ancient timepiece unleashes an inexplicable malevolent force that defies all rational explanation.

As the relentless and inexplicable events spiral out of control, the couple’s desperation reaches a fever pitch, propelling them to seek the guidance of a gifted spiritual medium.

Brace yourself for an extraordinary journey into the depths of terror and horror as renowned indie writer and director Rick Danford breathes new life into an old-time radio show with his highly anticipated feature film, “The Clock.” Prepare to be captivated and chilled to the core as this haunting tale unravels, enveloping audiences in a …

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Vincente Minnelli took a break from musicals to feature Judy Garland in the first movie to show her dramatic acting range, a charming and thoughtful wartime tale in New York: a whirlwind romance goes from nothing to marriage in 48 hours. She’s a working woman and he’s a soldier shipping out for combat; the miracle is that the whole thing is believable, and resolutely unglamorized. The illusion of ‘ordinary life’ in NYC is remarkable for 1945; star Robert Walker leaves behind the gangling bumpkin character he’d been playing. The Warner Archive’s Blu-ray is a welcome addition to the Minnelli disc library.

The Clock

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1945 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 90 min. / Available at Amazon.com / General site Wac-Amazon / Street Date June 7, 2022 / 21.99

Starring: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Lucile Gleason, Ruth Brady.

Cinematography: George Folsey

Art Director: William Ferrari

Film Editor: George White...

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After the milestone of her smash hit Meet Me in St. Louis, having proved herself as a now adult leading lady, where would Judy head next? She decided to build up her acting cred with her first purely dramatic role in The Clock, a romance wherein Garland’s character Alice falls for a soldier on leave in New York City. It’s not surprising that audiences at the time were expecting her to sing (she always had before), especially since the music swells in several moments as if she's about to do so. Despite the lack of songs, critics at the time appreciated the film's sweet tone and it's hard not to get swept up in the couple’s earnest romance.

Garland had struggled with addiction for years, but as she fought to maintain her weight and supported co-star Robert Walker as he drank his way through his deteriorating marriage,...

Chicago – She was born Frances Gumm on June 10th, 1922, but the world knew her as megastar Judy Garland. To celebrate her birth centennial, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents nine of her films from June 1 – July 30. For ticket info and details, click JUDY100.

The nine films will be “Meet Me in St. Louis” (June 1 & 4), “The Clock” (June 8 & 11), “Easter Parade” (June 15 & 18), “In the Good Old Summertime” (June 22 & 26), “Summer Stock” (June 29 & July 2), A Star is Born” (July 6 & 9), The Pirate” (July 13 & 16), Judgement At Nuremberg (July 20 & 23) and of course “The Wizard of Oz” (July 27 & 30). All will screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

Judy Garland Summer Centennial

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Arguably, Judy Garland is one of the greatest movie stars of her era. She signed a movie contract in 1935 with Metro Goldwyn Mayer at the tender age of 15, and then starred in a series of iconic musical/dramatic films during her time there,...

“Joe, Joe, Joe, darling, Joe. I thought I’d lost you. I didn’t know where to look.”

Judy Garland and Robert Walker in The Clock (1945) will be available on Blu-ray June 7th from Warner Archive

Judy Garland stars with Robert Walker as a New Yorker and a GI on a 48-hour leave who meet in New York’s Pennsylvania Station—under The Clock. Over two whirlwind days, the impossible happens: Two strangers meet and fall in love with each other, with the City–and its iconoclastic, eccentric inhabitants in this romance directed by Vincente Minnelli.

After ten years of musical appearances on film, M-g-m finally let Judy Garland exhibit her extraordinary acting talents without the need for song, and the results are unforgettable.Despite this romantic classic being very decidedly not a musical, the film is well-regarded for its haunting original score by composer George Bassman.

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Sometimes it’s like they read your mind—or just notice upcoming releases as you do. Whatever the case, I’m thrilled that the release of Terence Davies’ Benediction played (I assume!) some part in a full retro on the Criterion Channel this June, sad as I know that package will make me and anybody else who comes within ten feet of it. It’s among a handful of career retrospectives: they’ve also set a 12-film Judy Garland series populated by Berkeley and Minnelli, ten from Ulrike Ottinger, and four by Billy Wilder. But maybe their most adventurous idea in some time is a huge microbudget collection ranging from Ulmer’s Detour to Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard, fellow success stories—Nolan, Linklater, Jarmusch, Jia Zhangke—spread about.

Criterion Editions continue with Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight, Double Indemnity, and Seconds, while Chameleon Street, Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Fox Maxy's Maat Means Land (2020) MoMA has announced the lineup and schedule for “To The Lighthouse,” a thrilling carte blanche program by curator Mark McElhatten featuring new films by Nathaniel Dorsky, Ernie Gehr, Jodie Mack, Dani and Sheilah ReStack, and more, along with older films by Rivette, Joseph H. Lewis, Claire Denis, and Marguerite Duras.An essential annual list, Filmmaker Magazine's 25 new faces of film for 2021 includes Kate Gondwe (the founder of Dezda Films), filmmaker Fox Maxy, Omnes Films (the collective behind Tyler Taormina's Ham on Rye), and others. A24 and Emma Stone’s production company, Fruit Tree Banner, have come together to back Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw The TV Glow. The film, a follow-up to Schoenbrun's debut from this year, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, follows...

One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. 1945’s The Clock, Vincente Minnelli’s tender war-time New York romance, unfolds at first with trepidation: small-town G.I. Joe Allen (Robert Walker) is on a 48-hour leave visiting New York City for the first time when Alice Mayberry (Judy Garland) trips over his foot and breaks the heel of one of her shoes. At first, Joe and Alice float around each other, avoid looking too long, but their hesitation soon dissolves. Their love becomes inevitable, and the rest of the film is marked by a sense of claustrophobic urgency, a try-and-fail to match New York’s indifferent hyperkinetic rhythm, from losing each other at the train station to getting married when all they have left together is a few hours. Even so, Minnelli carefully etches the details of their relationship,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

China Lost and Found: Eight Films by Jia Zhangke

One of the greatest directors to emerge in this young century, Jia Zhangke has captured his native country like few others. The Criterion Channel is now spotlighting his stellar body of work, including the new restoration of his debut Xiao Wu (1997), along with Platform (2000), Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), Still Life (2006), 24 City (2008), A Touch of Sin (2013), and Mountains May Depart (2015). Also playing is the documentary Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang from 2014.

Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel

Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)

In the quarter-century since its debut, Olivier Assayas’ hilarious, mischievous, altogether unclassifiable Irma Vep stands merrily uninterested in many things contemporary movies are meant to be interested in—not ultra-sophisticated narrative gimmickry...

Next month’s Criterion Channel selection is here, and as 2021 winds down further cements their status as our single greatest streaming service. Off the top I took note of their eight-film Jia Zhangke retro as well as the streaming premieres of Center Stage and Malni. And, yes, Margaret has been on HBO Max for a while, but we can hope Criterion Channel’s addition—as part of the 63(!)-film “New York Stories”—opens doors to a more deserving home-video treatment.

Aki Kaurismäki’s Finland Trilogy, Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc duology, and Criterion’s editions of Irma Vep and Flowers of Shanghai also mark major inclusions—just a few years ago the thought of Hou’s masterpiece streaming in HD was absurd.

I could implore you not to sleep on The Hottest August and Point Blank and Variety and In the Cut or, look, so many Ernst Lubitsch movies,...

Hybrid edition has shifted industry showcase online.

The 40th Netherlands Film Festival (Nff) gets underway today as a hybrid event spearheaded by a bold new screening strategy.

The Utrecht-based festival, set to run September 25-October 3, will see selected films screening simultaneously not just in the Dutch city but in hundreds of cinemas across the Netherlands. There will also be drive-in screenings. However, all industry activities will take place online.

“We have managed to set up a huge collaboration with cinemas all over the Netherlands,” acting festival director Doreen Boonekamp said of the plan to show eight Nff titles “in over...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Chadwick Boseman in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods.We're extremely saddened by the news that Chadwick Boseman has died after a four-year battle with colon cancer. In a tribute to Boseman, Ryan Coogler writes, "He lived a beautiful life. And he made great art. Day after day, year after year. That was who he was."Recommended Viewinghbo's official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's We Are Who We Are, about a group of teenagers navigating their identities on an American army base outside of Venice, Italy. Antonio Campos's upcoming Netflix film, The Devil All The Time, stars Tom Holland, Riley Keough, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, and more as "sinister characters" in a seedy Ohio town. Media City Film Festival presents Radical Acts of Care, an online series curated by Greg de Cuir Jr.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsa stunning poster for the upcoming July 20th premiere of Jonathan Glazer's Strasbourg 1518, a Mica Levi-scored short film about the mass hysteria-caused "dancing plague" in Strasbourg. This year's edition of the Telluride Film Festival has been cancelled. "With a seemingly unending number of new cases of Covid-19 and the national chaos around it, even the best strategy is threatened by this out of control environment," the festival states.Recommended Viewing In a talk presented by HowlRound Theatre Commons, subtitlers Darcy Paquet (best known as the subtitler for Bong Joon-ho's Parasite) and Linda Hoaglund (the subtitler for Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away), as well as director-writer Xiaolu Guo discuss the intricate art of subtitling. Shudder's official trailer for Jayro Bustamante's La Llorona, a retelling of...

If you watch Good Witch online, then you know there's a new Merriwick in town!

Joy Harper arrived in Middleton with a purpose -- to discover more about her family.

With seemingly no family left, Joy ached to find elusive members of her family tree that she had never known.

What she discovers at Grey House is that her Merriwick cousins are anything but the average ordinary family.

Good Witch Season 6 Episode 3 is a good indication that the magical qualities we've known the Merriwicks possess will be in the spotlight like never before.

When Abigail first arrived in Middleton, she had a chip on her shoulder and an attitude that set her apart from her cousin, Cassie.

Knowing that history makes Joy's arrival a lot of fun because Abigail really leans into her role as mentor the younger Merriwick.

And it's so lovely knowing how far Abigail has grown during Good Witch's run.

To begin with, a disclaimer: There are practically no 2019 titles on my Best of the Decade list, not because there weren’t a lot of great films this year, but because I haven’t had the opportunity to live with them for all that long. My Best of 2019 list was its own challenge to write, but this year’s movies are just too new for them to have knocked around in my central nervous system the way these earlier titles have. Film historians can debate the major movie-related events of the decade — the rise of streaming, the dominance of Disney — but these are the films took up residency with me and refuse to move out:

11-30 (alphabetically): “Anomalisa,” “Before Midnight,” “Bernie,” “Bridesmaids,” “Call Me By Your Name,” “Certain Women,” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “Ex Machina,” “Force Majeure,” “The Great Beauty,” “The Handmaiden,” “Happy Hour,” “Holy Motors,” “Leave No Trace,...

From the clock in High Noon to the watch in Pulp Fiction, the Us artist turned thousands of film clips into a 24-hour epic that tells the actual time. As the cult work returns to London, the place of its birth, he relives three years of toil

The idea is brilliantly simple and completely audacious. Entitled The Clock and lasting 24 hours, the world’s most popular piece of concept art is a gigantic collage of film clips – old and new, black-and-white and colour – showing thousands of glimpses of clocks, watches, sundials and snatches of people telling each other the time, all set up to correspond to real time wherever it is shown, right round the clock.

It is a staggering, almost superhuman feat of research that has gained a cult following ever since it was unveiled at the White Cube gallery in London in 2010. The Clock’s easy-to-grasp governing principle...

1I will simply invert Rodin’s remark (he was, in fact, speaking of Muybridge’s work) to read thus: “It is the photograph which is truthful, and the artist who lies, for in reality time does stop.” —Hollis FramptonAfter the release of Abbas Kiarostami’s Life and Nothing More (1992), Jean-Luc Godard famously claimed that “Cinema begins with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami”. While the initial statement was made in 1992, we could not know where “cinema ends” until Kiarostami made his final movie. In 2017, his final movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, completed posthumously. The title: 24 Frames. Like any truly great critic, Godard’s claims were not only for the present, but for the future of cinema, and its risk was in not knowing how Kiarostami’s oeuvre would end. Now we know how it ends, and we can think what this ending means. Writing on Birth of a Nation (1915) Neil Bahadur dissects how,...

Who would have thought that a ’90s ‘slacker’ independent filmmaker would make such a strong romantic statement? Well, it’s not all romance in the old sense. In what must be a project of love, Richard Linklater examines the ongoing love life of Jesse & Céline, in three movies spread across eighteen years. The conversations are as free- flowing as are the cameras roaming through European back streets. Thanks to the commitment of Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, the in-depth relationship seems real.

The ‘Before’ Trilogy

Blu-ray

The Criterion Collection 856

1995, 2004, 2013 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 101, 80, 109 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 28, 2017 / 79.96

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Cinematography: Lee Daniel; Lee Daniel; Christos Voudouris

Film Editor: Sandra Adair (3)

Original Music: Fred Frith; none; Graham Reynolds

Written by Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan; Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Kim Krizan; Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Kim Krizan.

Produced by Anne Walker-McBay...

Her iconic character Dorothy set out to find happiness “Over the Rainbow” in The Wizard of Oz. But off-screen, Judy Garland‘s quest for peace was plagued by insecurity, depression and drug abuse.

By her side throughout the young star’s life were her five husbands, who each witnessed her struggle with her inner demons.

Sadly, love couldn’t save Garland, who died in 1969 from a barbiturate overdose. She was 47.

Here, the stories behind her marriages and the men in Garland’s life.

David Rose (1941–1944)

David Rose was already a successful composer and orchestra leader when he first met Garland...

Each weekend we highlight the best repertory programming that New York City has to offer, and it’s about to get even better. Opening on February 19th at 7 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side is Metrograph, the city’s newest indie movie theater. Sporting two screens, they’ve announced their first slate, which includes retrospectives for Fassbinder, Wiseman, Eustache, and more, special programs such as an ode to the moviegoing experience, and new independent features that we’ve admired on the festival circuit (including Afternoon, Office 3D, and Measure of a Man).

Artistic and Programming Director Jacob Perlin says in a press release, “Jean Eustache in a Rocky t-shirt. This is the image we had in mind while making this first calendar. Great cinema is there, wherever you can find it. The dismissed film now recognized as a classic, the forgotten box-office hit newly resurrected, the high and the low,...

Robert Walker: Actor in MGM films of the '40s. Robert Walker: Actor who conveyed boy-next-door charms, psychoses At least on screen, I've always found the underrated actor Robert Walker to be everything his fellow – and more famous – MGM contract player James Stewart only pretended to be: shy, amiable, naive. The one thing that made Walker look less like an idealized “Average Joe” than Stewart was that the former did not have a vacuous look. Walker's intelligence shone clearly through his bright (in black and white) grey eyes. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” programming, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating today, Aug. 9, '15, to Robert Walker, who was featured in 20 films between 1943 and his untimely death at age 32 in 1951. Time Warner (via Ted Turner) owns the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library (and almost got to buy the studio outright in 2009), so most of Walker's movies have...

Jennifer Connelly and Cillian Murphy star in the trailer for sparse drama Aloft.

Connelly portrays a mother of young children named Nana Kunning, who abandoned a son 20 years earlier.

Jennifer Connelly joins Ewan McGregor in American Pastoral adaptation

Watch Cillian Murphy in surreal new video for 8:58's 'The Clock'

When her now-grown son (Murphy) discovers where Nana lives, he sets off on a journey with a companion (Mélanie Laurent) to find answers about his past.

Aloft had its premiere at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival last year in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards.

It is the latest project from Claudia Llosa, who earned a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination for her 2009 family drama The Milk of Sorrow.

Sony Pictures Classics will release Aloft in the Us later this year. A UK release date is yet to be set.

What do film directors Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Agnès Varda, Robert Wise, Fred Zinnemann, Luis Buñuel, Alain Resnais, Roman Polanski, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, Louis Malle, Richard Linklater, Tom Tykwer, Alexander Sokurov, Paul Greengrass, Song Il-Gon, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro Iñárritu have in common? More specifically, what type of film have they directed, setting them apart from fewer than 50 of their filmmaking peers? Sorry, “comedy” or “drama” isn’t right. If you’ve looked at this article’s headline, you’ve probably already guessed that the answer is that they’ve all made “real-time” films, or films that seemed to take about as long as their running time.

The real-time film has long been a sub-genre without much critical attention, but the time of the real-time film has come. Cuarón’s Gravity (2013), which was shot and edited so as to seem like a real-time film, floated away with the most 2014 Oscars,...

The Warner Archive will present a big screen showing of the 1945 romantic classic The Clock starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker on October 1. The film is part of Bam's emphasis on movies that accentuate New York City over the decades. Also shown will be the acclaimed 6 minute short by Sam Brakhage, "The Wonder Ring" which paid homage to the Third Avenue El train on the eve of its demolition in 1955. For details click here...

This 1926 poster for a little-known tenement-set silent drama Sunshine of Paradise Alley grabbed my attention recently. Though it conforms to a lot of the conventions of 1920s movie posters, especially in the billing, there is something ineffably not-of-its period about the image. Maybe it’s the coloring (that yellow face, reminiscent in its oddity of Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl, painted 26 years later) or maybe it’s the tousled hair of star Barbara Bedford, so unlike 1920s movie star styles. And then there’s that beautiful title treatment (the same color as the face) with its unconventional “S”s and stacked “L”s.

Another unusual aspect of the poster is that it is signed—a quite uncommon occurrence in the 20s. (I wrote previously about Henry Clive who was an exception to the rule). The artist was Josef Bakos (1891-1977), a New York-born son of Polish immigrants who was a founding member of “Los Cinco Pintores,...

Infinite Anticipation

Here at the Vienna International Film Festival there are no multiplexes devoted to the festival. Every cinema is a single screen—all quite beautiful and some, like the Urania, Metro, Künstlerhaus, and Austrian Film Museum, very special indeed—and, scattered at a bit of a distance from one another, they trace a lopsided kind of ellipsis, a loop of cinema if you plan your itinerary right.

Above: Out 1, noli me tangere.

I came anticipating this particular suggestion of cinematic infinity, not just because of my memories of the last two years of repeatedly treading this touring path around the constrained city center of Vienna, but because of the promise of a much desired (by Jonathan Rosenbaum since 1996, and thereafter by an untold multitude of tantalized cinephiles) festival pairing of Jacques Rivette and Suzanne Schiffman's improvised serial intended for television, Out 1, noli me tangere (1971), and Louis Feuillade's...

Women in Film: Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, and dozens of movie actresses in curious morphing montage A few dozen top international female movie stars, most of them Hollywood celebrities, are seen in the Women in Film morphing montage below created by Philip Scott Johnson. The faces belong to actresses from the 1910s to the early 21st century. (Image: The ‘Daughter’ of Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner — who sort of looks like a cross between Eleanor Parker and Cyd Charisse as well — in the Women in Film morphing montage.) Just as interesting as trying to identify each of the famous faces is stopping the video while the morphing is going on, so you get Daughter of Marilyn Monroe and Ava Gardner, or Daughter of Audrey Hepburn and Dorothy Dandridge, or Daughter of Michelle Pfeiffer and Sigourney Weaver. Some of those Daughters are quite pretty; others look like they’ve just landed on this planet.

I fancy myself a person who appreciates film. I have watched some of the best and worst the film industry has to offer and have managed to take something away from them with every reel. I cannot explain enough how pained I am when I hear someone either my age or otherwise mention The Breakfast Club or Cocktail as the oldest movie they have ever seen (despite my love for them). Yes, true, now that it is 2013, 80s and 90s movies have become quite old, but they are nowhere near the age of their classic predecessors. The 40s, 50s, and even 60s offered up screen gems that are the basis or even the original to today’s hit movies.

Part of my relationship with my mother involves watching such gems on rainy days with popcorn and a nice blanket. I enjoy them just as much, if not more so, than...

Above: The Penn Station set for The Clock.

"Loving evaluation of texture, the screen being filled as a window is dressed in a swank department store." —Orson Welles

If we accept Raymond Durgnat's theory that in cinema, landscape is the equation of the state of the soul and architecture constitutes an X-ray photograph of the heroes'1, then Minnelli's films, especially musicals and melodramas, can be described as full-color X-ray photography of the inner universe of his characters, with a particular interest in artists, daydreamers, painters and dancers.

Minnelli's films generally happen in strange places. In his musicals the absence of modern urban life (unlike Stanley Donen, for instance) is noticeable. The real is recreated by studio-manufactured settings, where also the unreal, the fantasy, takes place. Minnelli's films are the encounter of two worlds, two parallel lines, which in reality never happen to cross each other. Although it is true that...

Zoe’s continues her journey through the turbulent history of one of Hollywood’s most influential studios, as we arrive at MGM's post-war golden era. Plus, a bit of 3D, too...

As the end of World War II approached, a new world dawned for MGM – a world which had changed dramatically. Attitudes and lifestyles had changed, but most importantly audiences had changed. Here was an opportunity: MGM’s chance to start afresh. And so in 1944, MGM embarked on what would become the most successful period in its history. After the war, the slate was wiped clean.

Gone were the tired, tried-and-tested formulas, and gone were the aging names and stars, as a new unit was established at MGM. It was up to this unit, anchored by an experienced producer and made up of bright young talent, to transform MGM’s signature high-production style into something new and modern in order...

To tie in with the essential Complete Vincente Minnelli series running all this month at Bam, I started looking at Minnelli posters with the hope of finding something interesting. Surely the most stylish of Hollywood auteurs would have bounteous posters to match his visual élan and dazzling color palette. However, with the exception of the iconic Gigi poster, an oddity like The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, or the two striking 1970 designs for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, most of his posters are fairly conventional illustrations on the order of The Pirate.

One poster that caught my eye though was this alternative poster for Designing Woman (1957) (the better known version is this). A photographed 3-dimensional montage made out of cut up paper, cloth and other objects, the collage is the work of Romanian emigré Jacques Kapralik (1906-1960). A talented caricaturist who drew cartoons for newspapers in Bucharest while still a teenager,...

Following its presentation in August, when the Ferroni Brigade was so taken with The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) they awarded it their Grey Donkey, Locarno's retrospective arrives in New York at BAMcinématek as The Complete Vincente Minnelli, opening today and running through November 2.

"Filmmakers as diverse as Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Spike Lee, Terence Davies, Amos Gitai, Quentin Tarantino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul have expressed admiration for his work," writes Joe McElhaney in Alt Screen. "Richard Linklater has repeatedly stated that Minnelli's small-town melodrama, Some Came Running (1958), is his favorite film. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995), a four-hour documentary tour of Scorsese's favorite American films, is filled with extended Minnelli excerpts, as is Jean-Luc Godard's far more ambitious project Histoire(s) du cinéma (ongoing since 1989), a complex video meditation on the very nature of the moving image." Overall, this series "is not really about being a completist,...

The Lincoln Center and the Paley Center here in NYC have joined forces to celebrate the all-singing all-dancing legend that is Judy Garland! 

Shout 'Hallelujah', c'mon get happy!"

Once upon a time she was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer." Few celebrities have ever earned their PR self-mythologizing titles the way Judy G did. There's just no beating her for musical pleasure and cathartic heartbreak. And as if her sensational singing and dancing weren't enough, she was a fine actress, too!

I missed the first week of the celebration being in Michigan but I'll see what I can catch for the remainder of the summer program which ends August 9th. If you're not in New York City, you can always follow along at home as best you can with an impromptu DVD festival.

 

Still to come in the festival are...

Young Judy:

Everybody Sing (1938), For Me and My Gal (1942), Presenting Lily Mars...

Impressive retrospective of Judy Garland.s films will feature 31 titles including a presentation of seldom seen short films and rarities as well as a special .sing-along. screening of The Wizard Of Oz.

On the occasion of what would have been Judy Garland.s 89th birthday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Paley Center have announced the details today for Fslc.s comprehensive retrospective of the peerless film icon.s work, All Singin., All Dancin., All Judy! which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 26 . August 9 and The Paley Center.s comprehensive retrospective of Garland.s television work,Judy Garland: The Television Years which will be presented July 20 . August 18.

With autumn marking the 75th anniversary of Judy Garland’s feature film debut (Pigskin Parade, 1936), the Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen 31 titles from July 26 . August 9, including each of her big-screen acting performances, to pay tribute to...

Judy Garland’s first non-musical role as an adult was in the second picture in a row directed by Vincente Minnelli (after their popular turn-of-the-century color musical Meet Me in St. Louis), and was released the same year he became her second husband, about twelve months before their daughter Liza Minnelli was born. Co-starring one of the 1940s most likeable, charming juvenile-leads, Robert Walker, as a World War II army corporal on 48-hour leave in New York City, the now little-known black-and-white film is a truly delightful, touching love story—-1945’s somewhat fable-like The Clock (available on DVD). The title has several…...

Richard Linklater, 1995/2004

An American man and a French woman in their early 20s meet on a train heading through Europe. They alight in Vienna, amble around for 14 hours and shoot the breeze. Yes, the plot of Before Sunrise could be written on the back of a Eurail ticket, but it's what Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) say and don't say during their Austrian walkabout that makes the film what it is: a gentle but canny Gen-x fusion of My Dinner With Andre and the Judy Garland shore-leave romance, The Clock.

As the soon-to-be lovers chat, show off, lark around and kiss, with director Linklater's camera a tender and unobtrusive companion, a sense of yearning bubbles up in the movie: we sense time slipping away, and the dawn approaching. When the morning arrives, and the time comes to part, Celine and Jesse promise to meet again in Vienna in...