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What’s the best Ecological Thriller of all time? Finally available in a good Region A disc is Val Guest and Wolf Mankowitz’s thrilling, realistic account of a world turned topsy-turvy, and perhaps plunging into a fiery oblivion. The violent climate/weather pattern shifts predict today’s global warming chaos. Newspapermen Edward Judd and Leo McKern track down a frightening government secret; Janet Munro is the confidential clerk that leaks the truth. One of the top all-time British Science Fiction films is also a great newspaper story about the importance of a free press. Extras include a new Richard Harland Smith commentary.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

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Kl Studio Classics

1961 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date July 7, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden, Reginald Beckwith, Renée Asherson, Arthur Christiansen, Pamela Green, Robin Hawdon.

Cinematography: Harry Waxman

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Tony Curtis grew up idolizing the suave and funny Cary Grant, emulated his romantic moves as an actor and then performed a brilliant impersonation of Grant for Billy Wilder. The next step had to be co-starring with the great man himself. Blake Edwards’ amiable, relaxed submarine movie allows Grant to play with ladies’ under-things, while Curtis wrestles with a pig.

Operation Petticoat

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Olive Signature Edition

1959 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 120 min. / Street Date July 1, 2014 / available through the Olive Films website / 39.95

Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Dick Sargent, Virginia Gregg, Gavin MacLeod, Madlyn Rhue, Marion Ross, Arthur O’Connell.

Cinematography: Russell Harlan

Original Music: David Rose

Written by Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin

Produced by Robert Arthur

Directed by Blake Edwards

The latest in Olive Films’ Signature Selection special editions is Operation Petticoat, a light comedy war movie noted for teaming Cary Grant with Tony Curtis.

Another great Samuel Fuller film on Blu-ray — this one is a crime tale set in downtown Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, that forms an interracial romantic triangle. It’s risky for its year because of the sexual dynamics — a Japanese-American man falls in love with a Caucasian woman. Fuller’s approach is years ahead of its time, even if Columbia’s sales job was a little weird.

The Crimson Kimono

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Twilight Time

1959 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 81 min. / Street Date July 18, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Anna Lee, Paul Dubov, Jaclynne Greene, Neyle Morrow, Gloria Pall, , Barbara Hayden, George Yoshinaga.

Cinematography: Sam Leavitt

Film Editor: Jerome Thoms

Original Music: Harry Sukman

Written, Produced and Directed by Samuel Fuller

“What was his strange appeal for American girls?”

Believe it or not, there was once a time when Samuel Fuller was a fringe figure,...

Veteran TV producer Deborah Spera (Criminal Minds) has sold her first novel. Titled Alligator, the novel is set in 1924. It revolves around three women struggling to survive in economically depressed rural South Carolina — a first generation free black woman, a poor white woman, and the wealthy white woman who employs them both — and the lengths they go to protect their children, and themselves. The book has been picked up by Liz Stein at Park Row Books. Spera and her…...

François Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian, illiterate future looks better than ever, but the scary part is that some of its oddest sci-fi extrapolations seem to be coming true. It’s a movie that truly grows on one. The Bernard Herrmann music score is one of the composer’s very best.

Fahrenheit 451

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Universal Studios Home Entertainment

1966 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 112 min. / 50th Anniversary Edition / Street Date June 6, 2017 / $14.98

Starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spencer, Bee Duffell.

Cinematography: Nicolas Roeg

Production Designers: Syd Cain, Tony Walton

Film Editor: Thom Noble

Original Music: Bernard Herrmann

Written by François Truffaut & Jean-Louis Richard from the book by Ray Bradbury

Produced by Lewis M. Allen, Miriam Brickman

Directed by François Truffaut

Quality science fiction was once a hard sell with both critics and the public. Fahrenheit 451 is usually discussed either as a Science Fiction film or a François Truffaut movie,...

Who she is: Martha Wayne, née Kane

Her power: No superpowers, but she was a well-known and extremely wealthy philanthropist, and a loving mother. Also, her name is Martha, which can go a long way in the DC Cinematic Universe.

Her story: Like her eventual husband, Martha Kane was the scion of one of Gotham City’s wealthiest families. Once she met young surgeon Thomas Wayne, the two quickly pledged to join forces to use their collective wealth to alleviate some of the worst of Gotham’s social ills—and eventually, to raise their son, Bruce. Those happy days came to an end, though, when Thomas was murdered in front of Martha’s eyes by a mugger that accosted the family in the city’s notorious Park Row (as depicted in Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice). Martha attempted to protect her son, but the mugger heartlessly gunned her...

Curtis Hanson--Confidentially

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Alex Simon

Curtis Hanson was my first interview with a fellow film buff and film journalist. He was nice enough to sit down with me twice, first at the Rose Cafe in Venice, then at a lunch spot in the Marina, the name of which has been lost to time. He was then kind enough to invite me to the world premiere of "L.A. Confidential" at the Chinese Theater as his guest, my first time on the red carpet at a real-life Hollywood premiere, and called me after this piece ran to thank me personally. A nice man. Hanson, and co-writer Brian Helgeland, would go on to win Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars for "L.A. Confidential."

Years later, I ran into Hanson at a book signing party for Pat York that was held in Westwood. I approached him and reminded him of our interview a decade or so earlier.

Richard Brooks' exciting Humphrey Bogart picture is one of the best newspaper sagas ever. An editor deals with a gangster threat and a domestic crisis even as greedy heirs are selling his paper out from under him. Commentator Eddie Muller drives home the film's essential civics lesson about what we've lost -- a functioning free press. Deadline - U.S.A. Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1952 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 87 min. / Street Date July 26, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart, Martin Gabel, Joe De Santis, Audrey Christie, Jim Backus, Willis Bouchey, Joseph Crehan, Lawrence Dobkin, John Doucette, Paul Dubov, William Forrest, Dabbs Greer, Thomas Browne Henry, Paul Maxey, Ann McCrea, Kasia Orzazewski, Tom Powers, Joe Sawyer, William Self, Phillip Terry, Carleton Young. Cinematography Milton Krasner Film Editor William B.Murphy Original Music Cyril J. Mockridge Produced by Sol C. Siegel...

A gritty newspaper saga about two battling tabloids shot like one of Fuller’s war movies, Park Row was one from the heart. Fuller began his career as a crime reporter at the ripe old age of 17 and claimed this period drama as his favorite of his films. Ignoring his pal Darryl Zanuck’s suggestion that he make it a star-laden color musical, Fuller financed his ink-stained morality play himself and lost his shirt. Despite its shoestring budget the period flavor is so strong you can almost smell the newsprint. Fuller regular Gene Evans stars in his greatest role.

One of the best pictures of 2015 is an accurate and relevant movie about a truly difficult subject. Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James, John Slattery and Stanley Tucci lead an impressive ensemble; I don't think I've ever seen such a complicated story told with such clarity, and so entertainingly. Spotlight Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 129 min. / Street Date February 23, 2016 / 34.98 Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d'Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Paul Guilfoyle, Len Cariou, Jamey Sheridan. Cinematography Masanobu Takayanagi Film Editor Tom McArdle Original Music Howard Shore Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy Produced by Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar Directed by Tom McCarthy

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

They say that The Revenant and The Big Short have a leg up on this year's Oscars, but my vote still goes to Tom McCarthy's Spotlight,...

This week Craig Skinner joins us to talk about Samuel Fuller’s Park Row.

From Masters of Cinema:

Iconic American filmmaker Samuel Fuller began his career as a tabloid reporter, and thrillingly drew on those skills and experiences in his extraordinary labour-of-love Park Row. An exhilarating tribute to the ideals of the free press and noble popular journalism, this two-fisted tale of battles on and off the printed page in 1880s New York is a major American rediscovery.

When Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans), a visionary newspaperman, launches his own title The Globe, his eye-catching headlines and approach quickly ignite with the New York readership. But less impressed is Charity Hackett (Mary Welch), proprietor of long-established rival The Star, and attempts to undercut The Globe soon escalate into all-out war.

Packing more dynamite into eight reels than most directors unleash over a career, Fuller’s self-financed Park Row is a passionate,...

Bates Motel & The Returned

A&E Network has announced back-to-back premiere dates for the third season of "Bates Motel" and the U.S. remake of acclaimed French supernatural series "The Returned". Both will premiere on March 9th.

Speaking about the latter, show runner Cartlon Cuse says that the first six episodes of the show share a lot of similarities with the original. After that point they diverge and the end of the first season is "fairly, distinctively different" from the original. [Source: The Live Feed]

The Flash

Canadian actress Britne Oldford ("Skins," "American Horror Story") has been cast as Lashawn Baez on The CW's "Flash". Lashawn Baez is apparently based on the DC Comics character Shawna Baez, better known as the reluctant teleporting villain Peek-a-Boo.

Oldford will reportedly play the girlfriend to Micah Parker's character, an Iron Heights inmate who convinces his significant other to break him out of prison and use her...

The 1890s: The era of the x-ray's discovery, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and yellow journalism. Oh, and the brutal feud between publishing hotshots Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. This battle of the titans is the basis for a new show in the works from The Jackal Group and screenwriter Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot) called Park Row. Based on true events, the show will follow all the tension, debauchery, and controversy surrounding the two publishers and their fight to be no. 1.

Schimmel Center at Pace University is proud to announce the 2014 2015 season at The Schimmel Center at Pace University, located at 3 Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street in downtown Manhattan, adjacent to City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge. Schimmel Center is a world-class performing arts and culture series with an emphasis on music superstars from around the globe, charismatic and crowd-pleasing dance performances, spectacular theatre and contemporary cabaret. The Schimmel Center season begins on September 21 with Voce, Rising Opera Stars in Recital, and culminates on May 30 with Ben Vereen.

Samuel Fuller didn't do anything halfway, either in his life, or with his movies. His filmography reads like punch after punch of hard-hitting films — "Park Row," "Underworld U.S.A.," "Shock Corridor," "The Naked Kiss," "The Big Red One" — and it was 1982's "White Dog" that got him in particular trouble. The controversial film about dog trained to attack black people unsurprisingly found him at odds with Paramount, so Fuller went into self-imposed exile in France, where among his many activities, he turned to novel writing. It's something he had always done throughout his career, and even you might know his "The Dark Page" though the film version, "Scandal Street" (that was not directed by Fuller). However, "Brainquake," written during his foray abroad, fell through the cracks. The book was released overseas, published only in French and Japanese, and rather remarkably, never saw an English...

1. You’ve Got Mail

There’s no romantic comedy quite like a Meg Ryan movie, and You’ve Got Mail is one of the best. At Café Lalo on New York’s Upper West Side, Kathleen Kelly waits to meet her mystery correspondent. Café Lalo is still on West 83rd Street between Broadway and Amsterdam, a perfect place for a late afternoon cappuccino and slice of cake.

2. West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical adaptation, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, was filmed in 1960 at 68th Street and Amsterdam Avenue (just near Lincoln Center), and the iconic prologue between the Sharks and the Jets takes place in a schoolyard at 110th Street and 2nd Avenue.

3. Sex & The City

It’s no secret that the fifth character in this hit TV show was New York City itself. In the movie, the city plays just as important a role.

Every year, film executive Franklin Leonard releases his list, called The Black List, of most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. This year's list was compiled from the suggestions of 290 film executives, each of whom picked up to ten of their favorite scripts. Since the list started in 2004, many screenplays ended up being turned into films. In 2005, two of the top three scripts were "Lars and the Real Girl" which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and "Juno" which actually won the Oscar. See the 2012 Black List below, broken up by how many votes each screenplay received. Some of the projects are already in the works. 65 - Draft Day (Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman) On the day of the NFL Draft, Bills General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Buffalo when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in...

There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of their favorite screenplays of the year and the consensus first overall pick (with 65 votes) comes from the recently featured in Variety (10 Screenwriters to Watch 2012) tandem of Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman and their drama which has nothing to do with enlisting in the armed forces. Draft Day – about the day in the life of a fictitious Buffalo Bills Gm appears to currently be in turnaround — which only means I expect to see this greenlight perhaps a little later than sooner – worth noting: top spot almost guarantees that the film will indeed go into production (2006, 2010 and 2011 are the exceptions.) Among the more alluring logline subjects we find on the list, I’d be keen on reading the...

★★★★☆ After the recent, turbulent News of the World scandal, the ethics and role of print media within a society addicted to social networking has become a major talking point. In keeping with this cultural fixation with the Great British tabloid press, Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema label have decided to re-release Samuel Fuller's Park Row (1952), a glowing love letter to the medium, and a celebration of tabloid professionalism and the forgotten influence of journalistic integrity.

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It shouldn't come as much of a surprise to learn Samuel Fuller financed Park Row with his own money. The legendary director put up $201,000 - virtually every penny he had - on the story of a firebrand journalist trying to launch his own newspaper back in the dawn of the industry (on the street of the same name), and the whirlwind shoot and single cramped set can't detract from the way Fuller's trademark righteous conviction rolls off every line. This is a film made by someone who believes, damn it, and to hell with you if you don't see things like he does.Fuller directed some of the standout American films of the past five decades, from the lurid psychodrama of Shock Corridor to the...

(Samuel Fuller, 1952, Eureka!, PG)

Maverick writer-director Sam Fuller (1911-97) had three careers and was dedicated to each of them. First as a newspaperman, he progressed from teenage copy boy to ace crime reporter. Then as an infantry sergeant in north Africa and Europe. Third, he became a writer-director of mostly low-budget pictures, many of them now cult classics. In Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965), Jean Paul Belmondo asks Fuller to explain what film is. Chewing on his cigar, Fuller says: "Film is like a battleground – love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word, emotion."

His first two films were westerns, the next two war movies and the fifth was this paean to American journalism and press freedom, set in the 1880s in Park Row, New York's equivalent of Fleet Street. The central character is a crusading journalist (played by Fuller regular Gene Evans) who's setting up his own paper,...

Few writer-directors in the history of American cinema fit the definition of “maverick” better than the late Samuel Fuller. Brash and bold, he used his experiences as a newsboy, reporter, and infantryman to inform his best movies, from Park Row and The Steel Helmet to The Big Red One. If you admire his films and haven’t read his autobiography, A Third Face, you have a real treat in store. Fuller’s daughter Samantha has set out to make a documentary about her father to commemorate his 100th birthday this year, making use of material that hasn’t been mined in the existing docs that cover his colorful life and career. Like so many filmmakers (and...

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Journalists take note! You're about to get schooled in your craft by the singular talents of Samuel Fuller. Those fine people over at Eureka Entertainment are bringing Fuller's long-forgotten 1952 film, Park Row to UK DVD on their fabulous Masters of Cinema label on 22nd October.It's a story that should ring true for many in these Internet-infused days of cyber-journalism, in which Gene Evans' plucky young journo sets out to launch his own newspaper, The Globe, in 1880s New York City. Brimming with incendiary stories and eye-catching headlines, his paper becomes an instant success with the people, but he faces fierce opposition from the city's more established publications, personified by Mary Welch, owner of the long-running daily, The Star.Quentin Tarantino, never one shy to champion...

Below you will find a list of movie that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright has never seen. Not long ago Wright went out and asked his friends and fans to recommend some movies they thought he may have missed over the last thirty years of his life. He got recommendations from Quentin Tarantino, Daniel Waters, Bill Hader, John Landis, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Greg Mottola, Schwartzman, Doug Benson, Rian Johnson, Larry Karaszeski, Josh Olson, Harry Knowles and hundreds of fans on this blog.

From these recommendations, Wright created a master list of recommended films that were frequently mentioned. The director now wants the fans to choose which of the films on the list he should watch on the big screen.

Wright is holding a film event at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles called Films Edgar Has Never Seen.

Edgar Wright's latest epic project [1] has him partnering with Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, Joss Whedon, Bill Hader, Guillermo Del Toro, Joe Dante, Greg Mottola, Harry Knowles, Rian Johnson and, probably, several of you. Like all of us, Wright has a bunch of classic and cult films he's never seen. Unlike all of us, he has the means to see them for the first time on the big screen and will do just that in December [2] at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles during Films Edgar Has Never Seen. The director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World asked both his famous friends (some of which are listed above) and fans to send in their personal must see lists and, from those titles, Wright came up with one mega list from which he'll pick a few movies to watch December 9-16. After the jump check...

by Vadim Rizov

The best—or least most characteristically forceful—Samuel Fuller movies veer excitedly from one violent moment and camera movement to the next, like someone justifiably punching you in the face. 1955's House of Bamboo is a calmer production. Fuller novices shouldn't start here: for a introduction to the two-fisted director's earlier work, try on the sleazy Cold War noir Pickup on South Street (made two films before this) or 1957's Forty Guns, a widescreen Western that often accelerates to warp speed. House of Bamboo has patches of standard-issue narrative tissue to get through, and the camera's less mobile and impulsive than usual. Compared with, say, 1952's Park Row, in which Fuller tracks so fast the camera gets wobbly out of sheer urgency (speed trumps thought), Bamboo is more tableaux-bound.

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A copyboy at 12 and a crime reporter at 17, Sam Fuller already had a considerable career as a journalist—to say nothing of his time as an author or soldier—before he started directing movies. But when the chance arose, he returned to his first love with the self-financed 1952 film Park Row, set in the bustling, competitive, sometimes dangerous world of New York journalism in the 1880s. It’s a detailed—though wildly exaggerated—depiction of a time when reporters’ blood mixed with printers’ ink, and a bruised valentine to the noble ideals that are supposed to drive ...

DVD Playhouse June 2011

By

Allen Gardner

Kiss Me Deadly (Criterion) Robert Aldrich’s 1955 reinvention of the film noir detective story is one of cinema’s great genre mash-ups: part hardboiled noir; part cold war paranoid thriller; and part science- fiction. Ralph Meeker plays Mickey Spillane’s fascist detective Mike Hammer as a narcissistic simian thug, a sadist who would rather smash a suspect’s fingers than make love to the bevvy of beautiful dames that cross his path. In fact, the only time you see a smile cross Meeker’s sneering mug is when he’s doling out pain, with a vengeance. When a terrified young woman (Cloris Leachman, film debut) literally crossed Hammer’s path one night, and later turns up dead, he vows to get to the bottom of her brutal demise. One of the most influential films ever made, and perhaps the most-cited film by the architects...

Sun City - What are you going to when it comes time to retire? Do you really have enough money saved up to last you for the rest of your life? Can you hold out till Willard Scott puts you on the Smuckers jar and wishes you a happy 100th? Will you really be enjoying the good life with round the clock sponge baths from young orderlies? Have you done the math to figure out how much it’ll cost for a day at a retirement community in 20 years? Can your 401K hold out?

Odds are the answer is a resounding, “Maybe?”

The golden years require platinum reserves. With talk that Medicare is about to be destroyed, your budget for health insurance is about to go completely out of control. When is the last time Blue Cross hyped individual policies for people hitting 90? Even the most frugal of senior citizens...

"Margot Benacerraf, now in her 80s, only ever made one feature-length film," begins Josef Braun, "but that film remains so extraordinary, so very nearly singular, that it merits an admiration on par with many more prolific and esteemed bodies of work. After studying and gathering numerous influential allies in France and elsewhere, Benacerraf returned to her native Venezuela, specifically to an island no one had heard of, though when was discovered by the Spanish 450 years earlier it was deemed a sort of paradise on account of its abundance of one resource: salt, as valuable back then as gold. We can see the ruins of colonial fortresses erected to protect the island and its salt marshes, once the center of piracy in the Caribbean, during the prologue of Araya (1959). But historical context quickly gives way to the seeming timelessness of hard labour, to Benacerraf's lyrical approach to depicting the life of a community that was,...

Uma Thurman glamorously stealing the spotlight from speaker George Pataki at the Police Athletic League's luncheon series in the Mutual of America dining room at 320 Park Ave. . . . Danny DeVito in Ray-Bans on Virgin to Lax in first class . . . Top French chef Joel Robuchon devouring a roasted goat head on the sidewalk cafe at Da Silvano . . . James Gandolfini buying a large flat-screen TV at J&R Music and Computer World on Park Row . . . Calvin Klein looking like a salesman...

Paul Dunlap, a prolific film composer for three decades and a frequent collaborator of Sam Fuller, died March 11 in Palm Springs. He was 90.The classically trained Dunlap composed the soundtracks for more than 133 films and TV shows and worked on another 50 pictures and television episodes as a conductor, musical director, music supervisor and orchestrator, often composing incidental music as well.Dunlap worked with fiery writer-director Fuller on such films as "The Baron of Arizona" (1950), starring Vincent Price, "The Steel Helmet" (1951), "Park Row" (1952), "Shock Corridor" (1963) and "The Naked Kiss" (1964).He also wrote the soundtracks for six movies directed by Harold D. Schuster, including the Western "Jack Slade" (1953), and worked on numerous TV shows, including "Have Gun, Will Travel." He was admired for his Western scores and sci-fi sound effects.A native of Springfield, Ohio, Dunlap also worked...

Whenever the modern film-maker feels that his movie has taken too conventional a direction and is neglecting “art,” he need only jerk the Gimp-string, and–behold!–curious and exotic but “psychic” images are flashed before the audience, pepping things up at the crucial moment, making you think such thoughts as “The Hero has a mother complex,” or “He slapped that girl out of ambivalent rage at his father image, which, he says, he carries around in his stomach,” or “He chomps angrily on unlit cigarettes to show he comes from a Puritan environment and has a will of iron."

–“The Gimp,” June 1952

One doesn't mind the crawling acceptance of cures, motives, troubles that have been rubber-stamped by endless usage in fiction and plays as much as the mechanical feints made at the idea of human complexity.

–“Hard-Sell Cinema,” November 1, 1957

As goes the cliché, given ample evidence throughout Farber on Film,...

Samuel Fuller had one of the most fascinating of Hollywood careers -- a 50-plus-year self-mythologizing rampage that began with scriptsmith work in the mid 1930s at the age of 24, evolving into one of the most distinctive auteurs America has ever produced, writing/directing some 25 movies and having a hand in writing 25 more, helplessly manufacturing himself into a crusty man's-man Hollywood gadfly in the process, readily available for manic interviews and iconic appearances in young auteurs' self-conscious films.

There are always corners in his career that you, whomever you are, haven't yet explored (honestly, any single Fuller film remains half-experienced if you've only seen it once), and so the new Sony set of Fulleriania is a prize, beginning as it does with "It Happened in Hollywood" (1937), Fuller's first screenplay credit, and an utterly freakish, Charlie Kaufman-esque launch of meta-ness that centers on Hollywood's discomfiting transition from silents to talkies, barely...

Turner Classic Movies will be saluting the 36th Annual Telluride Film Festival with a Labor Day celebration that will feature an all-day film marathon.

The marathon will include films recently screened at Telluride, along with tributes to stars and filmmakers that were honored at the fest.

The following is a complete schedule of TCM's Labor Day, Sept. 7, salute to the Telluride Film Festival:

6:00 a.m. Godless Girl (1929) 8:00 a.m. I'm King Kong: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005) 9:00 a.m. King Kong (1933) 11:00 a.m. Uncle Silas (1951) 1:00 p.m. The Black Book (1949, aka Reign of Terror) 2:45 p.m. The Men Who Made Movies: Sam Fuller (2002) 3:45 p.m. Park Row (1952) 5:15 p.m. An Optical Poem (1938) and The Dot and the Line (1965) 5:45 p.m. The Phantom Tollbooth (1969) 7:30 p.m. Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009) 8 p.m. They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) 10 p.

Turner Classic Movies will be saluting the 36th Annual Telluride Film Festival with a Labor Day celebration that will feature an all-day film marathon.

The marathon will include films recently screened at Telluride, along with tributes to stars and filmmakers that were honored at the fest.

The following is a complete schedule of TCM's Labor Day, Sept. 7, salute to the Telluride Film Festival:

6:00 a.m. Godless Girl (1929) 8:00 a.m. I'm King Kong: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005) 9:00 a.m. King Kong (1933) 11:00 a.m. Uncle Silas (1951) 1:00 p.m. The Black Book (1949, aka Reign of Terror) 2:45 p.m. The Men Who Made Movies: Sam Fuller (2002) 3:45 p.m. Park Row (1952) 5:15 p.m. An Optical Poem (1938) and The Dot and the Line (1965) 5:45 p.m. The Phantom Tollbooth (1969) 7:30 p.m. Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009) 8 p.m. They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) 10 p.