Reeling Backward
Mar 12th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
Ostensibly a baseball movie, “Bang the Drum Slowly” is really a meditation on male relationships.
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Mar 8th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
“The Sunshine Boys” was an ode to vaudeville, and made George Burns a star at age 80.
Tags: classic film, film criticism, george burns, herbert ross, neil simon, Reeling Backward, richard benjamin, the sunshine boys, walter matthau Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Mar 5th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
Like “Julie & Julia,” “Eat Drink Man Woman” is a gorgeous film deliciously mixing food and romance.
Tags: ang lee, chien-lien wu, eat drink man woman, film criticism, foreign film, keui-mei yang, Reeling Backward, sihung lung, yu-wen yang Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Mar 1st, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
Before Tim Burton tackled “Alice in Wonderland,” there had been numerous film versions, including in 1933 with Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and W.C. Fields.
Tags: 1933, Alice in Wonderland, cary grant, charlotte henry, classic film, gary cooper, joseph l. mankiewicz, lewis carroll, norman z. mcleod, Reeling Backward, w.c. fields Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Feb 26th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
This English production may not have aged well, but it set the bar for a generation of adventure films.
Tags: classic film, conrad veidt, john justin, june duprez, michael powell, Reeling Backward, rex ingram, sabu, the thief of bagdad Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Feb 22nd, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
Stewart Granger became a star from “King Solomon’s Mines,” but it’s an adventure flick whose potential remains unplundered.
Tags: 1950, classic film, deborah kerr, film criticism, king solomon's mines, Reeling Backward, stewart granger Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Feb 19th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
More than a decade later, “Fight Club” is seen as a revolutionary movie about revolutionary men in complacent times.
Tags: Brad Pitt, Chuck Palahniuk, classic film, David Fincher, Edward Norton, fight club, film criticism, helena bonham carter, jim uhls, Reeling Backward Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Feb 15th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
One of the first prison break movies of the WWII era, “The Seventh Cross” stars Spencer Tracy as a Nazi dissident on the run.
Tags: anna seghers, classic film, film criticism, fred zinneman, helen deutsch, hume cronyn, jessica tandy, Reeling Backward, spencer tracy, the seventh cross Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Feb 12th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
Shot at the real 1970 race, “Le Mans” is less a narrative film than a document of European style racing.
Tags: 24 hours of le mans, auto racing, classic film, elga andersen, film criticism, harry kleiner, le mans, lee katzin, Reeling Backward, steve mcqueen Posted in Reeling Backward |
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Feb 8th, 2010 |
By Christopher Lloyd |
Category: Reeling Backward
“The Strange One” kicked off a lot of careers, including Ben Gazzara, George Peppard and screenwriter Calder Willingham.
Tags: 1957, ben gazzara, calder willingham, classic film, end as a man, george peppard, jack garfein, Reeling Backward, the strange one Posted in Reeling Backward |
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