After making what many people cite as the greatest film ever made, “Citizen Kane” (1941), multi-talented actor, writer, director and producer Orson Welles struggled to live up to the success he achieved when he was just 26 years old. Yet seen today, many of the films he made afterwards have attained a similar acclaim. Let’s take a look back at all 13 of his completed feature films as a director, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1915, Welles first came to prominence as a stage director, mounting groundbreaking productions of “Macbeth,” “Dr. Faustus,” and “The Cradle Will Rock” before forming his own repertory company, The Mercury Theater. In addition to Welles, the Mercury Theater Players included Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Norman Lloyd, Martin Gabel and Paul Stewart, many of whom would go onto appear in the director’s films.
It was the Mercury Theater’s transition into...
Born in 1915, Welles first came to prominence as a stage director, mounting groundbreaking productions of “Macbeth,” “Dr. Faustus,” and “The Cradle Will Rock” before forming his own repertory company, The Mercury Theater. In addition to Welles, the Mercury Theater Players included Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Norman Lloyd, Martin Gabel and Paul Stewart, many of whom would go onto appear in the director’s films.
It was the Mercury Theater’s transition into...
- 5/4/2024
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
For many film buffs, the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street is their go-to holiday film. Subsequently, the movie depicts the best and worst of humanity and is essential viewing during the Christmas season. Altogether, the original film has spawned four remakes. However, they’ve all stayed true to the original script.
‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (1947)
The film’s original plot follows Doris Walker (Maureen O’Hara), a worker at Macy’s Department Store in New York City. However, Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) realizes the man who will play Santa Claus is drunk. Later, he tells Doris, and she hires Kris to be the Macy’s store Santa Claus.
Her divorce disillusions Doris and her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood). However, their neighbor, lawyer Fred Gaily (John Payne), is surprised Susan doesn’t believe in Santa Claus.
When Susan meets Kris, she believes he’s Santa Claus. Fred believes Kris and clashes with Doris.
‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (1947)
The film’s original plot follows Doris Walker (Maureen O’Hara), a worker at Macy’s Department Store in New York City. However, Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) realizes the man who will play Santa Claus is drunk. Later, he tells Doris, and she hires Kris to be the Macy’s store Santa Claus.
Her divorce disillusions Doris and her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood). However, their neighbor, lawyer Fred Gaily (John Payne), is surprised Susan doesn’t believe in Santa Claus.
When Susan meets Kris, she believes he’s Santa Claus. Fred believes Kris and clashes with Doris.
- 12/24/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Erle Stanley Gardner’s brilliant and savvy criminal defense attorney Perry Mason has been on the case since 1933’s “The Case of the Velvet Claws.” The attorney describes himself in that first novel as a “lawyer who has specialized in trial work, and in a lot of criminal work…I’m a specialist on getting people out of trouble.”
Inspired by the famed Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers who only lost three of his 77 murder trials, Mason was featured in 82 novels and four short stories, six Warner Bros. murder mystery movies, a long-running radio series, the beloved 1957-66 CBS series starring Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale as his true-blue assistant Della Street, movies and a 1973-74 series with Monte Markham. Matthew Rhys (“The Americans” ) plays the latest incarnation in HBO’s stylish “Perry Mason” series, currently in its second season.
Set during the Great Depression, the HBO drama has a real “Chinatown” feel,...
Inspired by the famed Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers who only lost three of his 77 murder trials, Mason was featured in 82 novels and four short stories, six Warner Bros. murder mystery movies, a long-running radio series, the beloved 1957-66 CBS series starring Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale as his true-blue assistant Della Street, movies and a 1973-74 series with Monte Markham. Matthew Rhys (“The Americans” ) plays the latest incarnation in HBO’s stylish “Perry Mason” series, currently in its second season.
Set during the Great Depression, the HBO drama has a real “Chinatown” feel,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Perry Mason is back on the case. Season 2 of HBO’s reimagined take on the classic legal drama premieres Monday, March 6, with Matthew Rhys again stepping into the title role. The Americans star has said he didn’t watch Raymond Burr’s iconic take on the character before season 1, which aired in 2020. But for many TV viewers, Burr is Perry Mason. The actor played the crusading defense attorney from 1957 to 1966, and again in a series of TV movies from the mid-80s through the early ‘90s.
Burr’s run as Perry Mason ended with this death in 1993. But are any other original Perry Mason cast members still alive?
‘Perry Mason’ star Raymond Burr died in 1993 Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, right, and Ray Collins as Lt. Arthur Tragg ‘in ‘Perry Mason’ | CBS via Getty Images
The Canadian-born Burr had a long career in Hollywood, including roles in classic films such...
Burr’s run as Perry Mason ended with this death in 1993. But are any other original Perry Mason cast members still alive?
‘Perry Mason’ star Raymond Burr died in 1993 Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, right, and Ray Collins as Lt. Arthur Tragg ‘in ‘Perry Mason’ | CBS via Getty Images
The Canadian-born Burr had a long career in Hollywood, including roles in classic films such...
- 3/5/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
One of Orson Welles’ best has arrived in 4K! Kino Lorber has revived Universal’s 3-version study of the bordertown crime & corruption drama, that knocks us out with Welles’ colorful, weird characters, intricate scene blocking and infinitely creative camera work. Almost all of the extras from the earlier DVD and Blu-ray editions are here, with added expert commentary (the tally of tracks is now five). The performances are superb — Welles won’t lay off the candy bars, Janet Leigh wisely avoids the motel shower and Charlton Heston is actually fine as a ‘pretty unlikely’ Mexican. We’ve seen this show ten times — it’s so dense that each viewing brings new revelations.
Touch of Evil 4K
4K Ultra HD
Kl Studio Classics
1958-1998 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 96, 109, 111 min. / Street Date March 15, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Ray Collins, Joanna Moore,...
Touch of Evil 4K
4K Ultra HD
Kl Studio Classics
1958-1998 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 96, 109, 111 min. / Street Date March 15, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Ray Collins, Joanna Moore,...
- 6/28/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A thousand releases down the line, Criterion gives us a special edition of the most creatively brilliant & innovative movie in history, as the label debuts selected 4K releases. It’s a four-disc set, with three Blu-rays that hold a huge quantity of well-chosen and well-produced extras. What can be said about Kane that hasn’t been debated decades ago? Our Declaration of Principles is to just try and tell the truth: we try a ‘civilian’ approach, sketching the film’s wonderments without assuming the reader is already a true believer in the Cinema God Orson Welles. Which Welles definitely is.
Citizen Kane 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1104
1941 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 119 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 23, 2021 / 47.96
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova.
Cinematography: Gregg Toland...
Citizen Kane 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1104
1941 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 119 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 23, 2021 / 47.96
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova.
Cinematography: Gregg Toland...
- 11/30/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Freddie Mercury sang that Love Kills, and that’s apparently where Gene Tierney’s coming from in this bizarre domestic noir. Dream wife Tierney is cultured, rich, and drop-dead gorgeous, but hubby Cornell Wilde should have read the small print about her manic possessiveness. Beautiful people, beautiful scenery and Technicolor so bright that even Alfred Newman’s music score seems to be in color; John M. Stahl’s thriller stretches the definition of Film Noir.
Leave Her to Heaven
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1020
1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date March 24, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins, Darryl Hickman.
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy
Film Editor: James B. Clark
Original Music: Alfred Newman
Written by Jo Swerling from the novel by Ben Ames Williams
Produced by William A. Bacher, Darryl F. Zanuck
Directed by John M. Stahl
How can a glossy...
Leave Her to Heaven
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1020
1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 110 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date March 24, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Ray Collins, Darryl Hickman.
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy
Film Editor: James B. Clark
Original Music: Alfred Newman
Written by Jo Swerling from the novel by Ben Ames Williams
Produced by William A. Bacher, Darryl F. Zanuck
Directed by John M. Stahl
How can a glossy...
- 3/14/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Orson Welles would’ve celebrated his 104th birthday on May 6, 2019. After making what many people cite as the greatest film ever made, “Citizen Kane” (1941), the multi-talented actor, writer, director and producer struggled to live up to the success he achieved when he was just 26 years old. Yet seen today, many of the films he made afterwards have attained a similar acclaim. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at all 13 of his completed feature films as a director, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1915, Welles first came to prominence as a stage director, mounting groundbreaking productions of “Macbeth,” “Dr. Faustus,” and “The Cradle Will Rock” before forming his own repertory company, The Mercury Theater. In addition to Welles, the Mercury Theater Players included Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Norman Lloyd, Martin Gabel and Paul Stewart, many of whom would go onto...
Born in 1915, Welles first came to prominence as a stage director, mounting groundbreaking productions of “Macbeth,” “Dr. Faustus,” and “The Cradle Will Rock” before forming his own repertory company, The Mercury Theater. In addition to Welles, the Mercury Theater Players included Joseph Cotten, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorhead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Norman Lloyd, Martin Gabel and Paul Stewart, many of whom would go onto...
- 5/6/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
I don’t know if Garland fans still go around chanting ‘Judy Judy Judy’ at her every appearance, but they do have a timeless song ‘n’ dance number to celebrate here. Her last MGM movie is only a so-so vehicle but Gene Kelly and the studio’s top music & dance talent work hard to put it over the top. Garland’s lack of stability is still an issue. For much of the movie she looks visibly overweight, yet in the showstopper ‘Get Happy’ she suddenly slims down to the best — maybe not the healthiest — look of her career.
Summer Stock
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / Color / 1:37 flat Academy / 109 min. / Street Date April 30, 2019 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers, Ray Collins, Nita Bieber, Carleton Carpenter, Hans Conried, Jeanne Coyne, Carol Haney, Almira Sessions.
Cinematography: Robert H. Planck
Film Editor: Albert Akst...
Summer Stock
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1950 / Color / 1:37 flat Academy / 109 min. / Street Date April 30, 2019 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers, Ray Collins, Nita Bieber, Carleton Carpenter, Hans Conried, Jeanne Coyne, Carol Haney, Almira Sessions.
Cinematography: Robert H. Planck
Film Editor: Albert Akst...
- 5/4/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Hollywood’s most tragic ‘mangled masterpiece’ gets a new lease on life with this special edition of what could have been Orson Welles’ greatest film, had Rko not intentionally destroyed it to sully the stature of the unlucky Boy Genius. The movie can’t be reconstructed but its reputation can be restored — the story of the demise of a powerful industrial family would have been a dramatic powerhouse, perhaps more impressive than Citizen Kane.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 952
1942 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 88 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 27, 2018 / 39.95
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett.
Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
Film Editor: Robert Wise
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
From the novel by Booth Tarkington
Screenplay, Production and Direction by Orson Welles
Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons is probably the most mourned ‘lost’ title in American film history.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 952
1942 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 88 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 27, 2018 / 39.95
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett.
Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
Film Editor: Robert Wise
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
From the novel by Booth Tarkington
Screenplay, Production and Direction by Orson Welles
Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons is probably the most mourned ‘lost’ title in American film history.
- 12/18/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Updated: Following a couple of Julie London Westerns*, Turner Classic Movies will return to its July 2017 Star of the Month presentations. On July 27, Ronald Colman can be seen in five films from his later years: A Double Life, Random Harvest (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942), The Late George Apley (1947), and The Story of Mankind (1957). The first three titles are among the most important in Colman's long film career. George Cukor's A Double Life earned him his one and only Best Actor Oscar; Mervyn LeRoy's Random Harvest earned him his second Best Actor Oscar nomination; George Stevens' The Talk of the Town was shortlisted for seven Oscars, including Best Picture. All three feature Ronald Colman at his very best. The early 21st century motto of international trendsetters, from Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and Turkey's Recep Erdogan to Russia's Vladimir Putin and the United States' Donald Trump, seems to be, The world is reality TV and reality TV...
- 7/28/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
When Ray Collins talks about his dog, you know it’s coming from a place of pure love: his heart.
“She’s got the best eyes in the world,” Collins, a professional DJ from Mobberley, England, tells People. “She really has got fantastic eyes.”
Something about those brown stunners — which were perhaps a little more sad looking last year than they are today — helped change Freya the dog’s life forever. On Sunday, about a year after she walked out of a shelter for the last time, she walked the blue carpet at a blockbuster movie premiere.
The pup with...
“She’s got the best eyes in the world,” Collins, a professional DJ from Mobberley, England, tells People. “She really has got fantastic eyes.”
Something about those brown stunners — which were perhaps a little more sad looking last year than they are today — helped change Freya the dog’s life forever. On Sunday, about a year after she walked out of a shelter for the last time, she walked the blue carpet at a blockbuster movie premiere.
The pup with...
- 6/21/2017
- by Amy Jamieson
- PEOPLE.com
“This isn’t the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother’s face if she could see our honeymoon hotel.”
Touch Of Evil screens Wednesday May 10th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ Crime & Noir film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.
Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) is a Mexican detective who gets caught up in the strange case of a car being blown up in an America-Mexico border town. Not only does the ethical Vargas have to deal with criminal factions in the area, he must butt heads with the domineering Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), a celebrated police detective. Vargas must prove that Quinlan isn’t the hero that others make him out to be,...
Touch Of Evil screens Wednesday May 10th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ Crime & Noir film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.
Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) is a Mexican detective who gets caught up in the strange case of a car being blown up in an America-Mexico border town. Not only does the ethical Vargas have to deal with criminal factions in the area, he must butt heads with the domineering Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), a celebrated police detective. Vargas must prove that Quinlan isn’t the hero that others make him out to be,...
- 5/8/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
HBO is said to be in talks with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and Robert Downey Jr., to reboot the Perry Mason TV series, with Downey in the title role. Variety reports the project is based on the feature film the star had previously developed at Warner Bros. If the project is ordered to series, Perry Mason would be Downey's second TV series role. He played Larry Paul on Ally McBeal in 2000 and 2001, and returned for the final two episodes, 2002.The original Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr, premiered in the fall of 1957 and ran for nine seasons before being cancelled by CBS in 1966. The cast also included: Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins, Wesley Lau, Richard Anderson, Michael Fox, Lee Miller, and Connie Cezon. According to the...
- 8/16/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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...
- 8/9/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright ca. 1945. Teresa Wright movies on TCM: 'The Little Foxes,' 'The Pride of the Yankees' Pretty, talented Teresa Wright made a relatively small number of movies: 28 in all, over the course of more than half a century. Most of her films have already been shown on Turner Classic Movies, so it's more than a little disappointing that TCM will not be presenting Teresa Wright rarities such as The Imperfect Lady and The Trouble with Women – two 1947 releases co-starring Ray Milland – on Aug. 4, '15, a "Summer Under the Stars" day dedicated to the only performer to date to have been shortlisted for Academy Awards for their first three film roles. TCM's Teresa Wright day would also have benefited from a presentation of The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956), an unusual entry – parapsychology, reincarnation – in the Wright movie canon and/or Roseland (1977), a little-remembered entry in James Ivory's canon.
- 8/4/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright: Later years (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon.") Teresa Wright and Robert Anderson were divorced in 1978. They would remain friends in the ensuing years.[1] Wright spent most of the last decade of her life in Connecticut, making only sporadic public appearances. In 1998, she could be seen with her grandson, film producer Jonah Smith, at New York's Yankee Stadium, where she threw the ceremonial first pitch.[2] Wright also became involved in the Greater New York chapter of the Als Association. (The Pride of the Yankees subject, Lou Gehrig, died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in 1941.) The week she turned 82 in October 2000, Wright attended the 20th anniversary celebration of Somewhere in Time, where she posed for pictures with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. In March 2003, she was a guest at the 75th Academy Awards, in the segment showcasing Oscar-winning actors of the past. Two years later,...
- 3/15/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright-Samuel Goldwyn association comes to a nasty end (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt': Alfred Hitchcock Heroine in His Favorite Film.") Whether or not because she was aware that Enchantment wasn't going to be the hit she needed – or perhaps some other disagreement with Samuel Goldwyn or personal issue with husband Niven Busch – Teresa Wright, claiming illness, refused to go to New York City to promote the film. (Top image: Teresa Wright in a publicity shot for The Men.) Goldwyn had previously announced that Wright, whose contract still had another four and half years to run, was to star in a film version of J.D. Salinger's 1948 short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." Instead, he unceremoniously – and quite publicly – fired her.[1] The Goldwyn organization issued a statement, explaining that besides refusing the assignment to travel to New York to help generate pre-opening publicity for Enchantment,...
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt': Alfred Hitchcock heroine (image: Joseph Cotten about to strangle Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt') (See preceding article: "Teresa Wright Movies: Actress Made Oscar History.") After scoring with The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, and The Pride of the Yankees, Teresa Wright was loaned to Universal – once initial choices Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland became unavailable – to play the small-town heroine in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. (Check out video below: Teresa Wright reminiscing about the making of Shadow of a Doubt.) Co-written by Thornton Wilder, whose Our Town had provided Wright with her first chance on Broadway and who had suggested her to Hitchcock; Meet Me in St. Louis and Junior Miss author Sally Benson; and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville, Shadow of a Doubt was based on "Uncle Charlie," a story outline by Gordon McDonell – itself based on actual events.
- 3/7/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Orson Welles wrote, directed and co-starred in “Touch of Evil” in 1958, at the end of what might be considered film noir’s golden era. It was right at the end of Welles’ golden era, too. He had been packing on the pounds by this point in his career, and was also drinking too much. In fact, the most exercise he got in the whole decade was a three-minute-twenty-second tracking shot.
Welles’ massive girth in “Touch of Evil” is actually more the result of padding and makeup than actual weight gain, but it wouldn’t be long before he’d be doing his own stunts. As spokesman for Paul Masson wines a decade or so later, he didn’t need the help of the makeup department to look like a guy who could put an all-you-can-eat buffet out of business.
Break out the Paul Masson for a “Cheers” to the lineup!
Welles’ massive girth in “Touch of Evil” is actually more the result of padding and makeup than actual weight gain, but it wouldn’t be long before he’d be doing his own stunts. As spokesman for Paul Masson wines a decade or so later, he didn’t need the help of the makeup department to look like a guy who could put an all-you-can-eat buffet out of business.
Break out the Paul Masson for a “Cheers” to the lineup!
- 8/21/2014
- by Randy Fuller
- Trailers from Hell
Review Kaci Ferrell 5 Feb 2014 - 06:59
Ravenswood's uneven first season has drawn to a close, with plenty of lessons to be learnt should season two come along...
This review contains spoilers.
1.10 My Haunted Heart
In the season finale of Ravenswood, Caleb's ex-girlfriend Hanna comes to town at precisely the worst moment, Luke and Olivia finally learn who killed their father, and Abaddon comes to collect his due.
First and foremost, I need this show to stop breaking my heart immediately. When Hanna arrives to visit Caleb, he finally has to come clean about Miranda being dead but not gone. Hanna doesn't quite believe him, but she does know two things: 1) She liked Miranda and is sad she's gone and 2) she's grateful that Caleb survived the car accident.
She visits the graveyard alone in order to put flowers on Miranda's grave before heading into the funeral parlour to have a one-person...
Ravenswood's uneven first season has drawn to a close, with plenty of lessons to be learnt should season two come along...
This review contains spoilers.
1.10 My Haunted Heart
In the season finale of Ravenswood, Caleb's ex-girlfriend Hanna comes to town at precisely the worst moment, Luke and Olivia finally learn who killed their father, and Abaddon comes to collect his due.
First and foremost, I need this show to stop breaking my heart immediately. When Hanna arrives to visit Caleb, he finally has to come clean about Miranda being dead but not gone. Hanna doesn't quite believe him, but she does know two things: 1) She liked Miranda and is sad she's gone and 2) she's grateful that Caleb survived the car accident.
She visits the graveyard alone in order to put flowers on Miranda's grave before heading into the funeral parlour to have a one-person...
- 2/5/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
"Ravenswood" is wrapping up its first season on ABC Family Tuesday (Feb. 4) when Hanna Marin (Ashley Benson) from "Pretty Little Liars" comes to town intent on confronting Miranda, a perceived boyfriend-stealer. Little does she know that Miranda is no longer among the living.
Executive producer Joseph Dougherty tells Zap2it that writing Hanna's reappearance in Ravenswood was some of his favorite material he's written all season.
Zap2it: How does Hanna take the news about Miranda and the curse?
Dougherty: How do you think you'd take it? [laughs] Writing Hanna coming back was some of the most interesting stuff I've been able to do for the series. Let's just say it's a tribute to the relationship that those two characters have that Caleb is actually able to explain, or at least state certain facts. It's an awful lot for Hanna to process and it's really so outside of her experience, despite all she's been through.
Executive producer Joseph Dougherty tells Zap2it that writing Hanna's reappearance in Ravenswood was some of his favorite material he's written all season.
Zap2it: How does Hanna take the news about Miranda and the curse?
Dougherty: How do you think you'd take it? [laughs] Writing Hanna coming back was some of the most interesting stuff I've been able to do for the series. Let's just say it's a tribute to the relationship that those two characters have that Caleb is actually able to explain, or at least state certain facts. It's an awful lot for Hanna to process and it's really so outside of her experience, despite all she's been through.
- 2/4/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...
- 8/26/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Crack-Up
Written by John Paxton, Ben Bengal and Ray Spencer
Directed by Irving Reis
U.S.A., 1946
A reoccurring question in the ongoing study and appreciation of art is whether art reflects life or vice versa. The real answer ostensibly lies somewhere in the middle, each informing and influencing the other, both embraced in seamless synchronicity. Knowing that, it stands to reason that art can, in effect, comment on itself and has at many a given opportunity in history. When done well one artistic medium may be utilized to comment on another, such as in the 1946 film Crack-Up, directed by Irving Reis. By no means a project lacking in potential, it misses the mark in some key respects, staying afloat with handsome visuals and capable leading actors.
George Steele (Pat O’Brien) arrives at the Manhattan art Museum one night in a state of severe intoxication. As is soon revealed,...
Written by John Paxton, Ben Bengal and Ray Spencer
Directed by Irving Reis
U.S.A., 1946
A reoccurring question in the ongoing study and appreciation of art is whether art reflects life or vice versa. The real answer ostensibly lies somewhere in the middle, each informing and influencing the other, both embraced in seamless synchronicity. Knowing that, it stands to reason that art can, in effect, comment on itself and has at many a given opportunity in history. When done well one artistic medium may be utilized to comment on another, such as in the 1946 film Crack-Up, directed by Irving Reis. By no means a project lacking in potential, it misses the mark in some key respects, staying afloat with handsome visuals and capable leading actors.
George Steele (Pat O’Brien) arrives at the Manhattan art Museum one night in a state of severe intoxication. As is soon revealed,...
- 8/17/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Mickey Rooney movie schedule (Pt): TCM on August 13 See previous post: “Mickey Rooney Movies: Music and Murder.” Photo: Mickey Rooney ca. 1940. 3:00 Am Death On The Diamond (1934). Director: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Mickey Rooney. Bw-71 mins. 4:15 Am A Midsummer Night’S Dream (1935). Director: Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle. Cast: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown, Victor Jory, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, Grant Mitchell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dewey Robinson, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Treacher, Otis Harlan, Helen Westcott, Fred Sale, Billy Barty, Rags Ragland. Bw-143 mins. 6:45 Am A Family Affair (1936). Director: George B. Seitz. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden. Bw-69 mins. 8:00 Am Boys Town (1938). Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, Addison Richards, Minor Watson, Jonathan Hale,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Warner Archive Collection 4th anniversary DVD / Blu-ray releases The Warner Archive Collection (aka Wac), which currently has a DVD / Blu-ray library consisting of approximately 1,500 titles, has just turned four. In celebration of its fourth anniversary, Wac is releasing with movies featuring the likes of Jane Powell, Eleanor Parker, and many more stars and filmmakers of yesteryear. (Pictured above: Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban in the sentimental 1966 comedy / drama with music The Singing Nun.) For starters, Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds play siblings in Richard Thorpe's Athena (1954), whose supporting cast includes Edmund Purdom, Vic Damone, frequent Jerry Lewis foil Kathleen Freeman, Citizen Kane's Ray Collins, Tyrone Power's then-wife Linda Christian, former Mr. Universe and future Hercules Steve Reeves, veteran Louis Calhern, not to mention numerology, astrology, and vegetarianism. As per Wac's newsletter, the score by Hugh Martin and Martin Blane "gets a first ever Stereophonic Sound remix for this disc,...
- 3/27/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Claremont, Calif. — Ray Collins, who invited guitarist Frank Zappa to join the band that eventually became the Mothers of Invention, has died at age 75.
Collins' friend Patrick Brayer tells the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ( ) that the musician from Claremont, Calif., died Monday, five days after a heart attack. http://bit.ly/ZECaMX
Collins brought Zappa to R&B cover band the Soul Giants in 1964. By 1966, they had become the Mothers of Invention, releasing their first album, "Freak Out," on Verve Records.
Collins sang on three albums, then left the Mothers, saying their comedic approach to music didn't suit him.
He pursued little music afterward and spent his last years living in a van, but was a well-known character and conversationalist on the streets of Claremont, a college town east of Los Angeles.
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Information from: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, http://www.dailybulletin.com...
Collins' friend Patrick Brayer tells the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ( ) that the musician from Claremont, Calif., died Monday, five days after a heart attack. http://bit.ly/ZECaMX
Collins brought Zappa to R&B cover band the Soul Giants in 1964. By 1966, they had become the Mothers of Invention, releasing their first album, "Freak Out," on Verve Records.
Collins sang on three albums, then left the Mothers, saying their comedic approach to music didn't suit him.
He pursued little music afterward and spent his last years living in a van, but was a well-known character and conversationalist on the streets of Claremont, a college town east of Los Angeles.
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Information from: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, http://www.dailybulletin.com...
- 12/28/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Ray Collins, a singer and musician responsible for hiring Frank Zappa for the band that became the Mothers of Invention, died on Monday, Dec. 24. He was 75 years old.
The Daily Bulletin reports that Collins, a longtime resident of Claremont, CA, was admitted to the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center on Tuesday, Dec. 18 following a severe heart attack. The singer was put into a medically induced coma and was taken off life support on Saturday (Dec. 22).
Collins was the lead singer of the Pomona-based band, the Soul Giants, when he met and hired Frank Zappa to play guitar in 1961. By 1963, the band (which also included bassist Roy Estrada and drummer Jimmy Carl Black) had become the Mothers of Invention and were signed to Verve Records. Their debut album, "Freak Out!" was released in 1966.
The lead singer on this album and on the two follow-ups (1967's "Absolutely Free" and 1968's "Cruising with...
The Daily Bulletin reports that Collins, a longtime resident of Claremont, CA, was admitted to the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center on Tuesday, Dec. 18 following a severe heart attack. The singer was put into a medically induced coma and was taken off life support on Saturday (Dec. 22).
Collins was the lead singer of the Pomona-based band, the Soul Giants, when he met and hired Frank Zappa to play guitar in 1961. By 1963, the band (which also included bassist Roy Estrada and drummer Jimmy Carl Black) had become the Mothers of Invention and were signed to Verve Records. Their debut album, "Freak Out!" was released in 1966.
The lead singer on this album and on the two follow-ups (1967's "Absolutely Free" and 1968's "Cruising with...
- 12/28/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Randy is touched.
Orson Welles wrote, directed and co-starred in Touch of Evil in 1958, at the end of what might be considered film noir’s golden era. It was right at the end of Welles’ golden era, too. He had been packing on the pounds by this point in his career, and was also drinking too much. In fact, the most exercise he got in the whole decade was a three-minute-twenty-second tracking shot
Welles’ massive girth in Touch of Evil is actually more the result of padding and makeup than actual weight gain, but it wouldn’t be long before he’d be doing his own stunts. As spokesman for Paul Masson wines a decade or so later, he didn’t need the help of the makeup department to look like a guy who could put an all-you-can-eat buffet out of business.
Break out the Paul Masson for a “Cheers” to the lineup!
Orson Welles wrote, directed and co-starred in Touch of Evil in 1958, at the end of what might be considered film noir’s golden era. It was right at the end of Welles’ golden era, too. He had been packing on the pounds by this point in his career, and was also drinking too much. In fact, the most exercise he got in the whole decade was a three-minute-twenty-second tracking shot
Welles’ massive girth in Touch of Evil is actually more the result of padding and makeup than actual weight gain, but it wouldn’t be long before he’d be doing his own stunts. As spokesman for Paul Masson wines a decade or so later, he didn’t need the help of the makeup department to look like a guy who could put an all-you-can-eat buffet out of business.
Break out the Paul Masson for a “Cheers” to the lineup!
- 4/26/2012
- by admin
- Trailers from Hell
Many people are familiar with Orson Welles’ notorious radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, which aired on Halloween eve, 1938, and caused a nationwide panic. It made the “boy wonder” of Broadway a household name, and led to offers from Hollywood that culminated in the production of his masterpiece, Citizen Kane, in 1941. He brought along many of his radio colleagues, from actors like Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, and Everett Sloane to composer Bernard Herrmann. Having been steeped in an aural medium, he approached the use of sound in film as few others ever did, before or since. Aside from old-time-radio diehards, I don’t know...
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- 1/4/2012
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
A Db bleeds from a car in a scrapyard. Ziva (Cote de Pablo) goes over the First Amendment. Tony (Michael Weatherly) is on his computer, as usual, sometimes you think he spends more time on there than McGee (Sean Murray) does. Tony reminds her this Amendment includes his freedom of speech. Ziva; "Clearly they did not have Tony in mind when writing that." Well they didn't have a lot of people in mind when writing. Tony is on the website and is 'Nexted'. (Something similar in CSI:ny season 7.2 episode was also done.) Ziva comments Tony keeps getting 'nexted'. Tony says it only takes 10 seconds. One girl online says he's old, 'like 40'. Which he is, (but over 40 in real life, ha. Yeah it's like we're not all going to get to 40.) Tony puts on a Graucho Marx mask, well many people won't even know who that is, Tony, talk about showing your age!
- 10/10/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Chicago – I have written about thousands of movies and yet I still feel daunted by addressing “Citizen Kane,” recently released in a stunning Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for the 70th anniversary of what many still consider to be the best film of all time. What could I possibly add to the conversation? Pulitzer Prize winners have dissected the film down to every decision made by Orson Welles during its production. All I can tell you is that the movie has lost none of its power. It is still one of the most striking cinematic achievements of all time and the impressive Blu-ray box set does the film the justice it has long-deserved.
DVD Rating: 5.0/5.0
As I said, “Citizen Kane” is still mesmerizing. I watch it every few years and I go into it every time with the same trepidation — Will it hold up? Is it still powerful? Much to my amazement,...
DVD Rating: 5.0/5.0
As I said, “Citizen Kane” is still mesmerizing. I watch it every few years and I go into it every time with the same trepidation — Will it hold up? Is it still powerful? Much to my amazement,...
- 9/25/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Rank the week of September 13th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Thor
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #227
Win Percentage: 58%
Times Ranked: 18033
Top-20 Rankings: 90
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Chris Hemsworth • Natalie Portman • Anthony Hopkins • Jeremy Renner • Kat Dennings
Genres: Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure
Rank This Movie
Conan O’Brien Can’T Stop
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5260
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 719
Top-20 Rankings: 5
Directed By: Rodman Flender
Starring: Conan O’Brien
Genres: Comedy • Documentary
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Incendies
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #4296
Win Percentage: 51%
Times Ranked: 947
Top-20 Rankings: 8
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Lubna Azabal • Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin • Maxim Gaudette • Rémy Girard • Abdelghafour Elaaziz
Genres: Drama • Foreign Language Film
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The Tempest
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #7784
Win Percentage: 37%
Times Ranked: 385
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Julie Taymor
Starring: Helen Mirren • Djimon Hounsou • Alfred Molina...
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #227
Win Percentage: 58%
Times Ranked: 18033
Top-20 Rankings: 90
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Chris Hemsworth • Natalie Portman • Anthony Hopkins • Jeremy Renner • Kat Dennings
Genres: Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure
Rank This Movie
Conan O’Brien Can’T Stop
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #5260
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 719
Top-20 Rankings: 5
Directed By: Rodman Flender
Starring: Conan O’Brien
Genres: Comedy • Documentary
Rank This Movie
Incendies
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #4296
Win Percentage: 51%
Times Ranked: 947
Top-20 Rankings: 8
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Lubna Azabal • Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin • Maxim Gaudette • Rémy Girard • Abdelghafour Elaaziz
Genres: Drama • Foreign Language Film
Rank This Movie
The Tempest
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #7784
Win Percentage: 37%
Times Ranked: 385
Top-20 Rankings: 2
Directed By: Julie Taymor
Starring: Helen Mirren • Djimon Hounsou • Alfred Molina...
- 9/13/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
Previously - Peter had a ring like Ring Man, Peter met with Kate, Ring Man wants Catherine the Great's music box, Neal was framed for a jewel heist, Fowler bugged Peter's home, Neal needs time to get the music box
At the office, Peter and Neal chat about their weekends. Peter had sports; Neal had the Guggenheim. Jones says David Sullivan, a possible victim of mortgage fraud, and his daughter Allison are waiting. Peter isn't happy because he doesn't see the fraud. He pulls Neal in because 6-year-olds make him nervous. Ha! Peter cringes as Allison draws on a 515 form, but Neal compliments her artistic ability. Peter catches us up by saying Sullivan's dad died and left them the house but before passing took out a second mortgage. Sullivan claims his dad would never do that. Peter reminds Sullivan that he only visited his dad 4 times in the last 3 years.
At the office, Peter and Neal chat about their weekends. Peter had sports; Neal had the Guggenheim. Jones says David Sullivan, a possible victim of mortgage fraud, and his daughter Allison are waiting. Peter isn't happy because he doesn't see the fraud. He pulls Neal in because 6-year-olds make him nervous. Ha! Peter cringes as Allison draws on a 515 form, but Neal compliments her artistic ability. Peter catches us up by saying Sullivan's dad died and left them the house but before passing took out a second mortgage. Sullivan claims his dad would never do that. Peter reminds Sullivan that he only visited his dad 4 times in the last 3 years.
- 5/18/2011
- by Dahne
Pahrump - Call it Hof Vegas. Dennis Hof of HBO’s Cathouse no longer wants me to warn readers that his Bunny Ranch empire is in only Reno and not Las Vegas. He’s bringing his style of adult fun to the outskirts of Sin City. He called up the hotline from the middle of Crystal, Nevada to spread the news. The sounds of hammering and drills came from his end of the phone.
“We’re moving around here and getting some things done,” Dennis Hof said. “I bought two 35 year old rundown, rat trap brothels. What you’re buying is the licenses.”
The two old names were Cherry Patch Ranch and Mabel’s Whore House. The new places are Love Ranch and Dennis Hof’s Cathouse. “Those are name that are synonymous with good times.”
There are no good times for the former owner. He got arrested for bribing a county official.
“We’re moving around here and getting some things done,” Dennis Hof said. “I bought two 35 year old rundown, rat trap brothels. What you’re buying is the licenses.”
The two old names were Cherry Patch Ranch and Mabel’s Whore House. The new places are Love Ranch and Dennis Hof’s Cathouse. “Those are name that are synonymous with good times.”
There are no good times for the former owner. He got arrested for bribing a county official.
- 11/16/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
An iconoclast kicks back with the sounds of his ‘50s adolescence Ever contrary, Frank Zappa released Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, a vigorous ode to the doo-wop and R&B of his youth, in 1968, when the boundaries of rock were being stretched by the likes of the Beatles, Hendrix and Zappa’s own Mothers of Invention. Greasy Love Songs unearths that highly entertaining album, presented here in the “original 1968 vinyl stereo mix,” along with alternate versions and related ephemera. Leading a cast that includes crooning lead singer Ray Collins and bassist Roy Estrada (pre-Little Feat), Zappa celebrates “cretin simplicity,”...
- 6/18/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
Rarely is an actor's presence so commanding that just a few words, or even none at all, can say everything. Mark Harmon has provided this presence on NCIS as Leroy Jethro Gibbs for seven seasons now, but perhaps never more than last night.
The closing scene in "Borderland," featuring Harmon, Pauley Perrette (also brilliant) and a chilling score, left us hanging on every one of the few words. So little said so much.
Abby knew. Gibbs knew Abby knew. Abby knew Gibbs knew she knew. The cold case she was working on in Mexico tied directly to her own boss, and it wasn't by accident.
Rule #40: If you think someone's out to get you, they are.
It wasn't alluded to directly, but we suspect Colonel Bell is behind this - and his counsel, Allison Hart (Rena Sofer), will find herself tangled in the middle of it soon enough.
Regardless,...
The closing scene in "Borderland," featuring Harmon, Pauley Perrette (also brilliant) and a chilling score, left us hanging on every one of the few words. So little said so much.
Abby knew. Gibbs knew Abby knew. Abby knew Gibbs knew she knew. The cold case she was working on in Mexico tied directly to her own boss, and it wasn't by accident.
Rule #40: If you think someone's out to get you, they are.
It wasn't alluded to directly, but we suspect Colonel Bell is behind this - and his counsel, Allison Hart (Rena Sofer), will find herself tangled in the middle of it soon enough.
Regardless,...
- 5/12/2010
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (L.J. Gibbs)
- TVfanatic
Luise Rainer in Sidney Franklin’s The Good Earth (1937) (top); Richard Bennett, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Don Dillaway, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins in Orson Welles‘ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (upper middle); Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) (lower middle); Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt in George Cukor’s A Woman’s Face (1941) (bottom) The first TCM Classic Film Festival has just come to a close, but Turner Classic Movies has already given the go-ahead for a second edition slated for Spring 2011. TCM primetime host and film historian Robert Osborne announced the news on Sunday night, right before the North American premiere of the restored Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 science-fiction/political drama. [...]...
- 4/27/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
If it weren’t so weird, you could call it a rip-off. The opening riff of “Jelly Roll Gum Drop,” from Cruisin’ With Ruben & the Jets, the 1968 album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, is a demented doppleganger of the famous intro to “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch).” But where the Four Tops go on to croon about the slings and arrows of unreliable romance, the Mothers have something more meta in mind. For reasons that have never been clear to me, they had come to deconstruct doo wop. “You make a streetcar stop at the soda shop and my eyeballs pop when I see my Jelly Roll Gum Drop,” Ray Collins sings, as Zappa underscores the irony with his sub-basement harmonizin’. This track, available for free exclusively on vanityfair.com, provides an early taste of Greasy Love Songs, an upcoming “celebration” of Cruisin’ With Ruben & the Jets,...
- 4/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
Orson Welles‘ 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane, winner of the best original screenplay Academy Award, will hit UK theaters on Nov. 30. In addition to London’s bfi Southbank, Citizen Kane will also be screened in Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane stars Welles as a newspaper magnate based on William Randolph Hearst. Also in the cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore (a distorted version of Marion Davies), Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, and Everett Sloane. Cinematography by the masterful Gregg Toland, music by Bernard Herrmann. Citizen Kane was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and actor (Welles). More information here.
- 10/23/2009
- by Joan Lister
- Alt Film Guide
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