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Screening Report: The 1933 Pre-Code Festival
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 1, 2013
On a recent Friday night, I struggled to find an empty seat at Film Forum, the Downtown Manhattan movie mecca where I spend most of my free time and discretionary dollars. Sold out shows are not uncommon at the cinema, but the movie I was about to see was neither a heavily promoted new release, nor read more
Movies Silently Quarterly Report (1)
Movies Silently Posted by Movies, Silently on Apr 2, 2013
Here is what happened in the first quarter of 2013: Here is a slideshow of the top favorites (give it a moment to load, especially if you have a slow connection. GIFs are not small files.) This slideshow requires JavaScript. The bottom 5 reviews. Three out of five are nautical tales. Are you trying read more
Screening Report: FOXY – THE COMPLETE PAM GRIER at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Mar 20, 2013
Like I needed another reason to adore Pam Grier. “I loved the old Boris Karloff films,” the actress said on Friday night before a midnight screening of SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Francesca Beale Theater, part of an eleven-film retrospective of her work. read more
Screening Report: CARTOON CUT-UPS of 1933 at Film Forum
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 25, 2013
The cinematic celebration of 1933 – “Hollywood’s naughtiest, bawdiest year!” – continues at New York City’s Film Forum on Monday, February 25 with Cartoon Cut-ups of 1933, a collection of rare animated shorts released by RKO, Columbia, MGM, Warner Bros., and Universal before read more
Screening Report: Pre-Code Fun at Film Forum’s 1933 Festival
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Feb 11, 2013
This weekend, Film Forum kicked off 1933: Hollywood’s Naughtiest, Bawdiest Year – a monthlong, 66-film retrospective of my favorite year in movie history. I didn’t say it was the best year in movie history, of course. That honor, at least during the studio era, is usually awarded to 1939 read more
Screening Report: THE SEARCHERS (1956); DETOUR (1945); and THE PASSENGER (1975) at IFC Center
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Dec 17, 2012
On Friday, the IFC Center in New York City kicked off a week-long festival of road movies selected by Walter Salles, director of the upcoming adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD. I saw three of the iconic films presented this weekend: John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS (1956); Michelangelo read more
Screening Report: Film Comment Selects at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Nov 28, 2012
“What’s it like to live in a world without words,” Film Comment editor Gavin Smith asked the audience at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Howard Gillman Theater last night, before a well-attended screening of François Truffaut’s FAHRENHEIT 451 (1966). The most recent installment read more
Screening Report: Looney Tunes at BAM
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Nov 26, 2012
While you were gorging yourself on turkey this Thanksgiving weekend, I was consuming a steady diet of rabbit. And duck, pig, and coyote. Thanks to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s three-day Chuck Amuck series, saluting the centenary of Academy Award-winning animator Charles M. Jones, I got a chance read more
Screening Report: THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951) at Film Forum
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Nov 21, 2012
Between 1947 and 1957, Ealing Studios produced a series of droll comedies that remain among the most beloved British films of all time. Robert Hamer’s KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949), Charles Crichton’s THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1951) and Alexander Mackendrick’s THE LADYKILLERS (1955) are perhaps read more
Screening Report: CARMEN COMES HOME (1951) at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Nov 8, 2012
Tonight, the Film Society of Lincoln Center kicked off a nine-day, fifteen-film retrospective of the work of Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita (1912-1998) with a screening of CARMEN COMES HOME (1951, aka KARMEN KYOKO NE KAERU) at the Howard Gilman Theater. The film has been digitally restored by read more
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray Report: Saboteur (1942) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Nov 2, 2012
Saboteur (1942) treds familiar Alfred Hitchcock narrative ground with “an ordinary man put in a bizarre situation,” as Hitch himself famously said. Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane’s (Robert Cummings) life is thrown into turmoil when his pal dies in a factory explosion and he read more
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray Report: Saboteur (1942) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Nov 2, 2012
Saboteur (1942) treds familiar Alfred Hitchcock narrative ground with “an ordinary man put in a bizarre situation,” as Hitch himself famously said. Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane’s (Robert Cummings) life is thrown into turmoil when his pal dies in a factory explosion and he read more
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray Report: Rope (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Nov 1, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray: Rope (1948) “Innovator” might not be the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Alfred Hitchcock, but a casual glance over his long career reveals a master filmmaker who was always willing to take risks. Rope (1948) is fine read more
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray Report: Rope (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Nov 1, 2012
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray: Rope (1948) “Innovator” might not be the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Alfred Hitchcock, but a casual glance over his long career reveals a master filmmaker who was always willing to take risks. Rope (1948) is fine read more
Screening Report: Harold Lloyd in THE KID BROTHER (1927) at Film Forum – Hurricane Sandy Special!
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Oct 29, 2012
“Pretty good audience for Hurricane Sandy,” Repertory Director Bruce Goldstein said before Sunday’s screening of Harold Lloyd’s THE KID BROTHER (1927) at Film Forum – a theater on the outskirts of a New York City neighborhood about to be evacuated. It was a small but responsi read more
Screening Report: William Castle’s HOMICIDAL (1961) at Loews Jersey Theater
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Oct 28, 2012
I saw William Castle’s HOMICIDAL (1961) at the Loews Jersey Theater in Jersey City on Friday night. To say it was the perfect way to kick off the “Pre-Halloween weekend” would be an understatement unworthy of the master of gimmicky cinematic hyperbole. I knew it was going to be a g read more
Screening Report: THE LOVES OF PHARAOH (1922) at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Oct 23, 2012
I saw the German silent epic THE LOVES OF PHARAOH (1922) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater on Saturday night with extremely high expectations. Unfortunately, while the film itself was stunning, the overall experience was not. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch before he emigrated to the U.S. read more
The Classic DVD Report
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by Kristen on Aug 21, 2012
Any classic film fan can tell you that there’s never enough money to buy DVDs. Okay I think that extends to regular film fans, book fans, and the like. With that I’ve decided to put together a little something to gather my thoughts and look at the various classic films coming to DVD read more
Minority Report
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 25, 2012
Minority Report is centered around a system in the future that can prevent murders from happening. At first glance, that sounds pretty great and has worked so well that not a single murder has occurred in the last six years. As we are able to see deeper into the “precrime” unit, there are faults, read more
Intelligence Report: Stan Winston, Robotics (Part 24 of 26)
The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on Apr 4, 2011
The Gardener Mecha in Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (DreamWorks) Stan Winston was a director most known for the visually engaging Pumpkinhead who later, like George Lucas, has found a niche for himself in the effects industry. Winston, however, works with robotics. His work might be slowly pushed as read more