Way sadder than expected. Not without thrills, like the absolute nail biter of a sequence where, in dead silence, Marnie robs the company safe without realizing the janitor is right around the corner...
Docuseries host and prop collector Dan Lanigan embarks on a road trip through cinema history, meeting stars and creators of such classics as 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Muppet Movie.'
"The British 'default setting' is resigned inertia and conformity, their widely-reported tolerance for eccentrics being merely the exception that proves the rule," Kathy Shaidle writes in this take on...
20 minutes of plot stretched to 96 minutes, which is a thing that can work ... I’m just sure it does here. Self-consciously clever about filmmaking (in particular use of sound/narration) in a...
In light of filmmaker Joel Schumacher’s passing it’s time to revisit one of his most controversial successes.
Schumacher’s work demonstrated versatility, risk taking and visual distinction....
AT MIDNIGHT, I WILL TAKE YOUR SOUL (Jose Mojica Marins [aka 'Coffin Joe'], Brazil, 1964) 7
Can't embrace this "Coffin Joe" film fully because the dramaturgy is just too crude and because the actors,...
I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba/USSR, 1964) 9
The virtuoso, frankly-showboating camera movements and long takes are legendary, but it's the look and resulting feel that makes this film. I once...
THE NAKED KISS (Sam Fuller, USA, 1964) 8
I saw this film for the first time in the week that the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal unmistakably and demonstrably landed at the footsteps of legendary head coach...
All the 1964 films I've seen, from best to worst.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Gertrud The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Mary Poppins Nothing But a Man Kwaidan...
Paulette Goddard does great work here, but unfortunately this adaptation of Pygmalion is overlong, unfocused, and, in general, dull. More focus on Ray Milland’s character, as they wisely did in My...
Quintessential.
GOLDFINGER (Guy Hamilton, Britain, 1964, 9)
Once you cheat at gin rummy, no evil is inconceivable. Foiling it will require, however, seguing from hay-barn judo into liplock seduction.
Never die,...
Zulu (1964, starring Michael Caine and Stanley Baker).
Zulu is based on a true event. It’s about an epic battle between British Army soldiers and negro warriors (the Zulu) in 1879...
DVD Release Date: December 18, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: August 3, 2007
Rating: PG (for crude humor, mild language and action)
Genre: Family
Run...
The swoony romantic drama, once a staple of the cinema, is all but nonexistent now. These movies—the ones that immortalized the longing glance, the furtive sigh, the agonized sob—have been...
I don’t remember when I have been more deeply affected by a film than I was by The Last Five Years, a jewel box of a movie-musical that is unquestionably the best of its kind since Chicago was released...
The death of Gene Wilder last week at 83 has led to the publication of many fond encomia to a performer who had ceased being of much interest 40 years ago, precisely at the moment when he became a movie...
— No one needs me to pitch you on “Mary Poppins” the film. After a half-century, Walt Disney’s box office busting Oscar winner is universally regarded as a cinematic...
As famous as “The Man From U.N.C.L.E” is, and as prolific as my television viewership has been for going on 50 years now, until I received a review screener of the just-released DVD collection...