Archive for category: Directors
9 May, 2012 (17:37) | by Richard T. Jameson, DVD, Sam Fuller | By: Richard T. Jameson
A year after its landmark release of Budd Boetticher’s “Ranown” Westerns, Sony showcases another great maverick filmmaker. Samuel Fuller spent most of his career in B pictures, creating ultrapersonal, formula-defying films that got little notice from workaday reviewers but impressed sharp critics like Andrew Sarris and Manny Farber. His streetwise worldview, his voice, his advisedly [...]
Tags: Adventure in Sahara, It Happened in Hollywood, Power of the Press, Sam Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Scandal Sheet, Shockproof, The Crimson Kimono, Underworld U.S.A. | No comments
9 May, 2012 (06:13) | by Richard T. Jameson, Film Reviews, Sam Fuller | By: Richard T. Jameson
[originally published in Steadycam, February 13, 2005; an earlier version of this article was published late 2004 in Queen Anne & Magnolia News] Samuel Fuller—whose credit on his movies always read WRITER PRODUCER • DIRECTOR SAMUEL FULLER with WRITER on top like that—came to Seattle in May 1976 for a special appearance with two of [...]
Tags: Bobby DiCiccio, Brian Jamieson, Christa Lang Fuller, Kelly Ward, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Perry Lang, Richard Schickel, Robert Carradine, Sam Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Siegfried Rausch, The Big Red One | No comments
8 May, 2012 (06:52) | by Rick Hermann, Essays, Film Reviews, Sam Fuller | By: Rick Hermann
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] As with many of Fuller’s films, Run of the Arrow is finally about nothing less that the United States, even though it is “just” a Western. As a matter of fact, it is perhaps the most conventionally “Western” of Fuller’s Westerns, the only one that really utilizes [...]
Tags: Billy Miller, Brian Keith, Charles Bronson, Chuck Hayward, Chuck Roberson, Frank DeKova, H.M. Wynant, Jay C. Flippen, Joseph Biroc, Movietone News 50, Neyle Morrow, Olive Carey, Ralph Meeker, Rod Steiger, Run of the Arrow, Sam Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Sarita Montiel, Stuart Randall, Tim McCoy | No comments
7 May, 2012 (10:36) | by Kathleen Murphy, Essays, Film Reviews, Sam Fuller | By: Kathleen Murphy
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] There are two kind of people in The Steel Helmet: those who are dead and those who are about to be; men who have ceased to move anywhere and mean anything, and those whose idiosyncratic, even crazy energy keeps them in motion until they too are stopped [...]
Tags: Gene Evans, Harold Fong, James Edwards, Lynn Stalmaster, Movietone News 50, Neyle Morrow, Richard Loo, Richard Monahan, Robert Hutton, Robert L. Lippert, Samuel Fuller, Sid Melton, Steve Brodie, The Steel Helmet, William Chun | No comments
3 May, 2012 (09:07) | by Rick Hermann, Essays, Film Reviews, Sam Fuller | By: Rick Hermann
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] “I wanted the camera to tilt slightly in one direction and the picture to tilt in another. So when it evens out, we have death. I wanted something weird in the beginning, but when it’s over, dead men are usually horizontal, and everything is simple, on one [...]
Tags: Barbara Britton, Barbara Woodell, Ernest Miller, I Shot Jesse James, J. Edward Bromberg, John Ireland, Movietone News 50, Preston Foster, Reed Hadley, Robert L. Lippert, Sam Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Tom Noonan, Tom Tyler, Victor Kilian | No comments
2 May, 2012 (08:47) | by Richard Thompson, Essays, Interviews, Sam Fuller | By: Richard Thompson
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller: “You can always tell about a leaper by the distance his toes are from the edge of either the window or the ledge of the roof he’s threatening to jump from. If you’re covering it, watch those toes. If they stick out, he’s not a [...]
Tags: Movietone News 50, Park Row, Sam Fuller, Samuel Fuller | No comments
1 May, 2012 (09:30) | by Richard T. Jameson, Essays, Sam Fuller | By: Richard T. Jameson
[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller visited the Seattle Film Society the weekend of May 8 and, among many other things that happened within 46-and-a-half exhilarating, excruciating, mind-boggling, adrenalin-jagging hours, he told a story about Lazslo Kovacs and The Last Movie, in which Fuller played a movie director for director-of-the-movie Dennis [...]
Tags: Dead Pigeon on Beethovenstrasse, Fixed Bayonets, Movietone News 50, Run of the Arrow, Sam Fuller, Samuel Fuller, The Steel Helmet, Underworld U.S.A. | No comments
1 May, 2012 (09:08) | by Sean Axmaker, Essays, Sam Fuller | By: Sean Axmaker
[originally published in the program for the Grand Illusion Sam Fuller series in 1999] Samuel Fuller straddled two generations: he was the last of that breed of old Hollywood tough guy directors and, along with Orson Welles, one of the first independent mavericks Like Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh and William Wellman he came from [...]
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1 May, 2012 (08:55) | Editor, Essays, Sam Fuller | By: Editor
“What is cinema?” asks New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Belmondo of Sam Fuller in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou.” He answers: “Film is like a battleground: love, hate, action, death… In one word, EMOTION.” It doesn’t matter whether Godard or Fuller wrote the line (regardless, Fuller’s gruff, cigar chomping delivery makes it his). It stands as [...]
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22 January, 2012 (08:23) | by Sean Axmaker, Film Reviews, Max Ophuls | By: Sean Axmaker
On Monday, January 23, Turner Classic Movies is showing all four films made by Max Ophuls, the great German director, during his brief tenure in America (when he dropped the “h” and signed his films “Max Opuls”). The evening of “Max Ophuls in Hollywood” is followed by two of his greatest French films, La Ronde [...]
Tags: Caught, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Joan Fontaine, Letter From An Unknown Woman, Max Ophuls, The Exile, The Reckless Moment | 3 comments
12 December, 2011 (09:49) | by Robert C. Cumbow, Film Reviews, Robert Altman | By: Robert C. Cumbow
[Originally published in Movietone News 51, August 1976] Uniformed marching bands with twirlers. Red, white, and blue. Frustrated chauffeurs who can’t quite comprehend the world of their passengers. An arrival at the airport by charter plane, covered by an on-the-spot news announcer. The death and funeral of someone named Green(e). A reference to car racing. [...]
Tags: Bert Remsen, Brewster McCloud, Brian McKay, Bud Cort, Corey Fischer, Doran William Cannon, G. Wood, Jennifer Salt, John Schuck, Margaret Hamilton, Michael Murphy, Movietone News 51, René Auberjonois, Robert Altman, Sally Kellerman, Shelley Duvall, Stacy Keach, William Windom | No comments
15 November, 2011 (14:58) | Film Reviews, Guest Contributor, Roman Polanski | By: Movietone News contributor
By Norman Hale [Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? —Macbeth In The Tenant Roman Polanski explores again the psychic terrain of guilt, dread, paranoia, fears [...]
Tags: Bernard Fresson, Claude Dauphin, Gérard Brach, Isabelle Adjani, Jo Van Fleet, Lila Kedrova, Melvyn Douglas, Movietone News 52, Roman Polanski, Rufus, Shelley Winters, Sven Nykvist, Tenant | No comments
7 November, 2011 (09:27) | by Peter Richards, Essays, Film Noir, Orson Welles | By: Peter Richards
The standard wisdom about Orson Welles’s 1946 thriller The Stranger—broadly, that it’s Welles’s weakest film, the runt in his otherwise superlative litter—needs challenging, even if Welles himself seemed mostly disinclined to do so. Only in 1982, three years before his death, did he appear to suggest, to BBC interviewers, that it wasn’t so terrible after [...]
Tags: Anthony Veiller, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Nims, Gladys Hill, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Richard Long, The Stranger | No comments
5 November, 2011 (17:04) | Budd Boetticher, by Sean Axmaker, DVD, Film Noir, Film Reviews | By: Sean Axmaker
Despite the efforts of such fans as Clint Eastwood, who produced two documentaries on the director, and Martin Scorsese, Budd Boetticher is still a name known mainly to film historians and fans of classic westerns. Boetticher made some of the greatest, purest, most austere westerns of all time: Seven Men From Now (available from Paramount), [...]
Tags: Budd Boetticher, The Killer is Loose, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond | No comments
20 October, 2011 (08:12) | by Richard T. Jameson, Directors, Essays | By: Richard T. Jameson
[Written in 1996 as part of a cine-bio project that never saw the light of day.] Richard Lester aka Dick Lester Birth: January 19, 1932; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Education: University of Pennsylvania (clinical psychology) My whole metabolism is that I’m inclined to do the sum at the end and then realize that I’ve left out one [...]
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