Is this Glenn Close’s year to win an Oscar?
Quick! Name the movie that won Julianne Moore her best actress Oscar. If you think it’s “Magnolia” or “The Hours” or “Far from Heaven” you’re wrong. But I can’t blame you for not remembering the...
View Article‘Sweet Smell of Success’ tonight in Bethel
It will be my pleasure tonight to host a Hearst screening of “Sweet Smell of Success” at the Bethel Cinema. It’s one of my all-time favorite movies, perhaps because it deals with three of my favorite...
View Article‘She Made Me Laugh’: what is a ‘friend’?
Readers and critics have been arguing about Richard Cohen’s Nora Ephron memoir/biography since it was first published last year. “She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron” (Simon and Schuster) has been...
View Article‘Robot and Frank’: Langella hits another one out of the park
Frank Langella continued his run of wonderful twilight years performances with the 2012 independent film “Robot and Frank” a poignant comedy-drama set in the near future. The movie is now available on...
View Article‘La Pelle’: Italian WWII drama resurfaces
The Cohen Media Group has been making waves as a relatively new player in the DVD distribution of European films. The company, headed by New York City real estate man Charles Cohen, also bought the...
View ArticleOut of the vault: ‘Adrian Messenger’
No one would rank the 1963 John Huston film “The List of Adrian Messenger” among the best pictures by the director of “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and “Prizzi’s Honor,” but it’s an entertaining...
View ArticleDeluxe DVD treatment for ‘The Swimmer’
The Frank and Eleanor Perry film version of the John Cheever story “The Swimmer” was a resounding flop in 1968, but over the years it has acquired a cult following. The movie has always been of...
View ArticleOscar madness: try to remember Cary Grant &‘Rocky’
It’s the movie buff’s equivalent of the Super Bowl. A huge TV event that is anticipated for weeks — months? — and then forgotten almost immediately. At two recent Oscar library discussions that I led,...
View Article‘She Made Me Laugh’: what is a ‘friend’?
Readers and critics have been arguing about Richard Cohen’s Nora Ephron memoir/biography since it was published earlier this month. “She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron” (Simon and Schuster) has...
View Article‘Cassavetes/Rowlands’ series opens in NYC
Downtown Manhattan’s elegant new arthouse – The Metrograph – is launching a terrific nine day series devoted to the films of writer-director-actor John Cassavetes and the work he did with his great...
View Article‘The Hateful Eight’ nostalgia trip
The glorious experiment by Quentin Tarantino and The Weinstein Company that resulted in bringing back the roadshow and Ultra Panavision 70 wide-screen format will end tomorrow night at 100 theaters...
View ArticleOscar chat tonight at the Plumb Library
As mainstream Hollywood films — i.e. the stuff that is shown in multiplexes most of the year — get more kiddie oriented, and more overseas market driven, adults owe a certain debt of gratitude to the...
View Article‘The Swimmer’ gets deluxe DVD treatment
The Frank and Eleanor Perry film version of the John Cheever story “The Swimmer” was a resounding flop in 1968, but over the years it has acquired a cult following. The movie has always been of...
View Article‘Candelabra’: Oscar trio gets HBO release rather than theatrical run
There is no better indicator of the steady shift of adult audiences from the multiplexes to home viewing than “Behind the Candelabra” debuting on cable last spring rather than in theaters. Here you...
View ArticleThe good old/bad old days of Cold War paranoia films
The 1970s are often cited as the heyday of the paranoid thriller — thanks to “The Parallax View” (1974) and “Three Days of the Condor” (1975) and a few other key titles — but the genre really started a...
View Article‘Robot and Frank’: Langella hits another one out of the park
Frank Langella continued his run of wonderful twilight years performances with the 2012 independent film “Robot and Frank” a poignant comedy-drama set in the near future. The movie is now available on...
View ArticleFilm Society series ‘Man of Steel’ marks Lancaster’s 100th birthday
Born in New York City the same year that Grand Central Terminal opened, Burt Lancaster became the rare movie star of his era who insisted on miscasting himself (in the eyes of studio chiefs) in a...
View ArticleOscar madness: try to remember Cary Grant &‘Rocky’
It’s the movie buff’s equivalent of the Super Bowl. A huge TV event that is anticipated for weeks — months? — and then forgotten almost immediately. At two recent Oscar library discussions that I led,...
View ArticleRobert Ryan: the man who lived against type
Last year, New York’s wonderful non-profit, three-screen movie theater — Film Forum — held a two-week tribute to Robert Ryan. Although he never attained the full-fledged stardom of peers such as Burt...
View Article‘Weegee’: capturing the dark side of New York City
If you are drawn to the bad old days of New York City — the nighttime underworld scene captured so vividly in such great films as “Sweet Smell of Success” and “Taxi Driver” — you will love the exhibit...
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