Why didn’t Cyd Charisse––who died in Los Angeles on Tuesday at the age of 86––ever fully become the Ginger Rogers to Gene Kelly’s Fred Astaire? To compare Charisse directly to Rogers would be unfair; the former was an athletic show-stopper who regularly held down solos seemingly designed to draw attention to their own difficulty, while [...]
Dance mashups have a way of making fifty years of history seem meaningless.
The Cannes Film Festival will show a classic Warner Brothers film every night of the fest, including I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang and Dirty Harry, as part of a tribute to the studio’s 85th anniversary. Also on tap: film critic Richard Schickel’s doc, You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story.
John Waters [...]
January 31, 2008 – 12:04 pm
A low budget musical, highly improvised, shot on consumer video and blown up to film? I’m there. I’ve been wanting to see Laurin Federlein’s Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness since reading write-ups of its premiere at Rotterdam a year ago, followed by a number of conflicted but non necessarily dismissive reviews from LAFF. I’m [...]
December 27, 2007 – 8:00 am
Why the studios have no immediate incentive to end the strike. Plus: Will Smith doesn’t really sympathize with Hitler, silly!
December 14, 2007 – 2:30 pm
In my first week as a SpoutBlogger, I linked to Kevin Lee’s video essay on Dario Argento’s Inferno. Twelve weeks later (putting us at last weekend), I met Kevin for the first time in Real Life, and he told me that the next installment of his project has going to investigate one of my favorite [...]
December 13, 2007 – 1:27 pm
See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing Streep.
