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TCM’s “Ultimate Fan” Contest – And How You Can Win It
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Sep 25, 2013
Amateur singing competitions are the hottest thing on TV. But what about an amateur classic film hosting competition – sort of like an American Idol for movie buffs – with the winner earning a once-in-a-lifetime co-hosting gig opposite Robert Osborne? Sounds like the dream of pretty much every class read more
Screening Report: THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) in IMAX 3-D
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Sep 24, 2013
It was a crisp Saturday night on the eve of autumn, and I was waiting for THE WIZARD OF OZ. “I’m shocked you want to see this,” my sister said. “Why?” I asked. “You know how much I like it.” “Exactly,” she said. “But you’re a…um…you’re a…” “Be careful what you read more
Blessed by Adam West
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Sep 19, 2013
There’s only one Batman. And his name is Adam West. West played the Caped Crusader in the iconic 1966-68 Batman TV series, one of the most creative and memorable programs in the history of the medium. I was too young to watch the first go-round on ABC, but I was there for the syndicated reruns read more
CASABLANCA vs. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Sep 11, 2013
Is Howard Hawks’ TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944) a better film than Michael Curtiz’s CASABLANCA (1942)? Filmmaker and critic Dan Sallitt thinks so. “You will probably feel the CASABLANCA presence hanging over the movie. For a long time, that was enough to disqualify it as an artistic work,” Sallitt read more
Old Movie Camp
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Sep 6, 2013
“So what did you do this month?” my aunt asked me on the penultimate day of August. I thought long and hard about my answer. I could say I worked, which I did for a week on a freelance project (summertime is usually quiet work-wise, so that was a nice surprise). I could say I wrote, which I do every read more
New Book About John Ford Avoids Easy Answers
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Aug 31, 2013
Forty years after his death John Ford remains an enigma. In his new book Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond author Scott Allen Nollen calls Ford “one of the most complex, contradictory, and downright confounding men who ever burned daylight.” And, in the context of his creative collabor read more
Screening Report: Clara Bow in IT (1927) at Nighthawk Cinema
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Aug 25, 2013
Talking is never okay at the movies. But what about singing? Vocalist Mary Alouette and the djangOrchestra accompanied Clarence G. Badger’s IT (1927) today during a brunch screening at the Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn, and the result was surprisingly effective. In the first installment of Nighthawk’s read more
Robert Osborne & Jane Powell Launch TCM Classic Film Tour
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Aug 20, 2013
Turner Classic Movies launched the TCM Classic Film Tour in New York City today, with a ribbon cutting ceremony featuring on-air host Robert Osborne and legendary actress Jane Powell, star of LUXURY LINER (1948), ROYAL WEDDING (1951) and SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954). Afterward, Osborne and read more
Screening Report: SUPER FLY (1972) 40th Anniversary Celebration at Museum of the Moving Image
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Aug 18, 2013
“I want to thank you all for coming out for a movie that represents the renaissance of black cinema,” filmmaker Warrington Hudlin told the audience at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens on Friday night, before a screening of Gordon Parks Jr.’s SUPER FLY (1972). “And everybody is officially read more
TCM Takes Manhattan with First-Ever “Classic Film Tour”
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Aug 10, 2013
East Coast classic film fans rejoice! After four years of star-studded festivals in Hollywood and two (soon to be three) cinematic voyages on the high seas, Turner Classic Movies is finally bringing film fans together in New York City. On August 22, the network will launch the TCM Classic Film Tour, read more
Screening Report: Andrew Bujalski’s COMPUTER CHESS (2013)
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Aug 4, 2013
The most enjoyable movie I’ve seen this summer is in black and white. That probably doesn’t surprise you. But what if I told you it’s not a classic from the Studio Era, but rather a current release from one of the originators of the highly hyped “Mumblecore” movement? You probably didn’t read more
Bette Davis, Girl Reporter! FRONT PAGE WOMAN (1935) from Warner Archive
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jul 29, 2013
Bette Davis might hate me for saying this, but I love her early films. Movies like THREE ON A MATCH (1932), THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1935), and even the misguided SATAN MET A LADY (1936) are all eminently watchable, even if they lack the prestige of the later, more challenging assignments the actress f read more
Silent Film Evangelist Kickstarts Restorations of Classics
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jul 23, 2013
Spike Lee, Zach Braff, and Ben Model? Like some elite entertainment industry players whose names may be better known, Model, the Manhattan-based musician and composer, is using the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to finance a film release. But there are a few key differences between his efforts an read more
Screening Report: Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC RIM (2013) in IMAX 3-D
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jul 14, 2013
If you see PACIFIC RIM, director Guillermo del Toro’s ”Giant Monsters vs. Giant Robots” CGI Punch ‘em Up, make sure you stay for the closing credits. There’s a text screen at the very end that may be of interest to classic movie fans. This film is dedicated to the memor read more
Dive into the 1960s with HELLO DOWN THERE on DVD from Warner Archive
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jul 14, 2013
On June 25, 1969, Paramount Pictures released HELLO DOWN THERE, a family oriented film about a teenaged rock band that performs infectiously hummable bubblegum pop songs. A month later, RCA Records released “Sugar, Sugar,” an infectiously hummable bubblegum pop song performed by a teenaged rock read more
Screening Report: The Hitchcock 9 at BAM
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jul 5, 2013
What director’s trademarks include nail-biting setpieces on historic precipices, the “wrong man” accused of a crime, the dangerous (usually icy blonde) female, murder with an outsized carving knife, and creative cameo appearances in his owns films? Even the greenest film school freshman read more
WOMEN IN BONDAGE (1943) from Warner Archive: Hitler Wants Your Baby
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 17, 2013
If Lifetime had made movies during World War II, they might have resembled WOMEN IN BONDAGE (1943), a heavy-handed hybrid of soap opera, war movie, and women-in-prison picture from Poverty Row powerhouse Monogram. This rarely seen programmer recently made its home video debut on manufacture-on-deman read more
Paging Art Fern! Carson and Classic Hollywood Together Again on TCM
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 6, 2013
From 1962 until his retirement in 1992, Johnny Carson ruled the late night airwaves with wit, grace, and the occasional feathered turban. He wasn’t the first emcee of NBC’s The Tonight Show, nor the last, but he is universally considered the best. And now, two decades after his final sig read more
DUDDY KRAVITZ (1974) – Restored And Ready for a Comeback?
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 3, 2013
DUDDY KRAVITZ director Ted Kotcheff at Film Forum on May 31, 2013 (photo by Will McKinley) Like the lead character in his most critically acclaimed film, 82-year-old director Ted Kotcheff still has chutzpah aplenty. “I said to the producer, ‘If we don’t get a great Duddy Kravitz I’m not read more
What I Learned From ROSEMARY’S BABY
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 31, 2013
You can learn a lot from ROSEMARY’S BABY, the 1968 film adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel, available on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. But here’s the most important lesson: never date an actor. If only someone had warned poor Rosemary Reilly when she got off the bus from Omaha read more