Showing posts with label THE 50S. Show all posts
Showing posts with label THE 50S. Show all posts
8/6/17
ANGEL FACE
Angel Face
1953
black-and-white film noir directed by Otto Preminger.
The drama, filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California,
features Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.
"Preminger transforms a second rate James M. Cain murder plot,
re-orchestrating this textbook tale of passion and murder into a haunting and haunted refrain.
The by then clichéd story line is pared away and brought down to an elemental level --
there is not a wasted scene in the film —
and the story's familiarity breeds an aftertaste of inevitability and doom.
The hallucinogenic nature of the proceedings is accented with Preminger's direction and camerawork, having actors drift from foreground to background or having the camera track to fluid and suffocating close-ups. Preminger, ever the mesmerizer, weaves his style into a half-dreamt haze of nightmare."
It was also named by critic Robin Wood as one of his top 10 films, shortly before his death.
In 1963, Jean-Luc Godard named it the 8th best American Sound film
5/31/17
JEANNE MOREAU: EACH MAN KILLS THE THING HE LOVES
— Jean Genet (Querelle)
The lyrics of the song that Jeanne Moreau sings are from Oscar Wilde’s “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” which was written in 1897 while in exile after his release from Reading Gaol prison. The line “Yet each man kills the thing he loves” was inspired by the hanging of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, who was convicted of slitting his wife’s throat.
Every man kills what he loves
Yet every man kills what he loves,
And we all know it:
They kill them with a look of hatred,
The others with caressing words,
The coward with a kiss,
The hero with a sword!
They kill their love when they are still young,
Others when they are old,
Some strangers strangle him with the hands of desire,
Certain others with the hands of gold,
The best ones use a knife, for that
The corpses will freeze.
You love too much or too little,
Love sells or buys,
Sometimes the crime is done with infinite tears,
Without a sigh,
Because each one of us kills what he loves
Yet he is not forced to die.
From "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol"
By Oscar Wilde
Soundtrack of Werner Fassbinder's film "Querelle" (1982)
12/7/16
A FACE IN THE CROWD
A Face in the Crowd
1957 film starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau, directed by Elia Kazan.
The screenplay was written by Budd Schulberg, based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler",
from the collection, Some Faces in the Crowd (1953).
The story centers on a drifter named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes who is discovered by the producer (Neal) of a small-market radio program in rural northeast Arkansas. Rhodes ultimately rises to great fame and influence on national television.
The film launched Griffith into stardom, but earned mixed reviews upon its original release.
Later decades have seen reappraisals of the movie, and in 2008 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically,
or aesthetically significant".
11/3/16
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5/21/16
MR. & MRS. LOVING
MR. & MRS LOVING, 1996)
A film about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s.
Director:
Richard FriedenbergWriter:
Richard FriedenbergStars:
Timothy Hutton, Lela Rochon, Ruby Dee5/20/16
4/14/16
GREASE THE MOVIE:1978 VS GREASE LIVE:2016
GREASE: MOVIE- 1978
GREASE LIVE- 2016
GREASE: MOVIE- 1978
GREASE LIVE- 2016
GREASE: MOVIE- 1978
GREASE LIVE- 2016
1/8/16
VINTAGE CAMPER TRAILERS~ HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
Very vintage camper trailers from 1937.
Posted by Vintage Camper Trailers on Thursday, January 6, 2011
Very vintage camper trailers from 1937.
Posted by Vintage Camper Trailers on Thursday, January 6, 2011
11/13/15
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN
PRESENTS
16MM MOVIE NITE
ANTEBELLUM
is obsessed with B&W films from the 1950s.
please join us for our screening of
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN
ORIGINAL 16MM FILM
projected on a screen!
NOVEMBER 20TH
7:30PM
$10
CASH BAR
KINKY ART
LIVELY CHAT
BEAUTIFUL PATIO FOR PRE & POST SCREENING RELAXATION
ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
Young Man with a Horn, (director~ michael curtiz)1950
musical drama film based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy Baker inspired by the life of
Bix Beiderbecke, the jazz cornetist.
The movie stars Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, and Hoagy Carmichael,
Doris Day described her experience making the film as "utterly joyless", as she had not found working with Douglas to be pleasant. Douglas said that he felt her ever-cheerful persona was only a "mask" and he had never been able to get to know the real person underneath.
Day countered that while Douglas had been "civil",
he was too self-centered to make any real attempt to get to know either her or anyone else.
10/13/15
9/4/15
16MM MOVITE NITE~ THE MAZE
PRESENTS
16MM MOVIE NITE
ANTEBELLUM is obsessed with B&W sci-fi and monster films from the 1950s.
please join us for our screening of
ORIGINAL 16MM FILM projected on a screen!
SEPTEMBER 11TH
7:30PM
$10
NO~HOST BAR
KINKY ART
LIVELY CHAT
BEAUTIFUL PATIO FOR PRE & POST SCREENING RELAXATION
ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856~0667
The Maze ,(1953)
atmospheric horror film in 3-D, starring Richard Carlson and Hillary Brooke.
It was directed by William Cameron Menzies and distributed by Allied Artists Pictures.
A Scotsman named Gerald MacTeam (Richard Carlson) abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty (Veronica Hurst) after receiving word of his uncle's death. He inherits a mysterious castle in the Scottish highlands and moves there to live with the castle servants. Kitty refuses to accept the broken engagement and travels with her aunt (Katherine Emery) to the castle. When they arrive, they discover that Gerald has suddenly aged and his manner has changed significantly.
starring
- Veronica Hurst as Kitty Murray
- Katherine Emery as Edith Murray
- Michael Pate as William
- John Dodsworth as Dr. Bert Dilling
- Hillary Brooke as Peggy Lord
- Stanley Fraser as Robert
- Lilian Bond as Margaret Dilling (as Lillian Bond)
- Owen McGiveney as Simon
- Robin Hughes as Richard Roblar
8/28/15
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