‘Unabashed, unfettered romanticism’ runs wild in Frank Borzage’s golden-age masterpiece of a runaway wife and the crazy Frenchman who pursues her. Long lost to awful, ragged 16mm prints, the newly restored gem will dazzle fans of delirious love stories, where the right people get together despite distance, time, and the interference of jealous husbands, misunderstandings, accusations of murder and natural disasters. All the above figure in this mini-epic, yet the movie never seems like a genre mash-up. Jean Arthur skips the squeaky line deliveries, Charles Boyer drops the gloom act, Colin Clive is more frightening than in his horror movies and Leo Carillo steals the show with one of the most endearing characters of the 1930s.
History is Made at Night
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1072
1937 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 13, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff,...
History is Made at Night
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1072
1937 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 13, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
10 Magical Facts to Celebrate 25 Years of Aladdin10 Magical Facts to Celebrate 25 Years of AladdinKurt Anthony11/24/2017 11:01:00 Am
Ah, Salaam and good evening to you, worthy friend. Please, please, come closer!
Released in theatres on November 25, 1992, today marks the 25th anniversary of Aladdin. Considered one of the founding films of the Disney Renaissance, Aladdin was Walt Disney Studio’s 31st animated feature film and ushered in a new era of classics.
Directed by famous Disney duo Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Moana) and featuring music by Disney Legends Alan Menken, Tim Rice, and Howard Ashman, you couldn’t have wished for a better team! Of course, we can’t forget the late Robin Williams as the voice of the eternally hilarious Genie; a role he was awarded a special honour for at the 1993 Golden Globes.
The film was an instant success. With a budget of $28M and...
Ah, Salaam and good evening to you, worthy friend. Please, please, come closer!
Released in theatres on November 25, 1992, today marks the 25th anniversary of Aladdin. Considered one of the founding films of the Disney Renaissance, Aladdin was Walt Disney Studio’s 31st animated feature film and ushered in a new era of classics.
Directed by famous Disney duo Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Moana) and featuring music by Disney Legends Alan Menken, Tim Rice, and Howard Ashman, you couldn’t have wished for a better team! Of course, we can’t forget the late Robin Williams as the voice of the eternally hilarious Genie; a role he was awarded a special honour for at the 1993 Golden Globes.
The film was an instant success. With a budget of $28M and...
- 11/24/2017
- by Kurt Anthony
- Cineplex
This Alan Arkin-Peter Falk show is finally being recognized as a comedy mini-masterpiece. Afraid of offending his daughter's future father-in-law, a dentist is sucked into a nightmare of crime and jeopardy, as a jolly Chinese airline whisks him away to a rendezvous with danger in a Latin American dictatorship. It's a gem of sustained mirth. The In-Laws Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 823 1979 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 103 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date July 5, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Penny Peyser, Arlene Golonka, Michael Lembeck, Paul Lawrence Smith, Ed Begley Jr., James Hong, Barbara Dana, David Paymer. Cinematography David M. Walsh Film Editor Robert E. Swink Original Music John Morris Written by Andrew Bergman Produced by Arthur Miller, William Sackheim Directed by Arthur Hiller
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Good grief, I had no idea that Albert Brooks and Michael Douglas remade this movie back in...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Good grief, I had no idea that Albert Brooks and Michael Douglas remade this movie back in...
- 6/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
No doubt the news that NBC is hiring Neil Patrick Harris to host a variety show was greeted by everyone under 35 with the response, "What's a variety show?"
Long ago, when there were only three channels and programmers crafted series that were meant to have universal appeal, the variety show was a TV staple. Shows blending music, comedy, dance, drama, juggling, puppetry, ventriloquism, and anything else you could think of were the networks' way of providing something for everyone. If you didn't like an act, wait five minutes, and something more to your taste would come along.
What's more, you didn't have to have any particular talent to host a variety show. Sure, a lot of hosts of 1970s variety shows were musicians -- Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Donny and Marie Osmond. Some of them could even tell jokes. And then there was Ed Sullivan,...
Long ago, when there were only three channels and programmers crafted series that were meant to have universal appeal, the variety show was a TV staple. Shows blending music, comedy, dance, drama, juggling, puppetry, ventriloquism, and anything else you could think of were the networks' way of providing something for everyone. If you didn't like an act, wait five minutes, and something more to your taste would come along.
What's more, you didn't have to have any particular talent to host a variety show. Sure, a lot of hosts of 1970s variety shows were musicians -- Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Donny and Marie Osmond. Some of them could even tell jokes. And then there was Ed Sullivan,...
- 10/31/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
If you count forward from Jim Henson's mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations: You don't see any contemporary movies being built around Topo Gigio or Señor Wences (though that's not to say it couldn't happen). The endurance of the Muppets isn't just the result of the creative skills of Henson and collaborators like Frank Oz, or of smart business decisions, or of sheer dumb luck. It's simply that the Muppets are just ever so slightly, or maybe even totally, mad. Man, woman, child: Who can resist them? Even TV-watching cats are drawn to their frisky hippety-hopping and flutey, gravely, squeaky,...
- 3/19/2014
- Village Voice
A quick review of tonight's "Community" coming up just as soon as I workshop a blackface Senor Wences bit... I wasn't crazy about all of "Advanced Documentary Filmmaking," which like a lot of this season's parody episodes didn't seem fully committed to the bit. (We randomly got yet another cop show parody within our documentary parody, for some reason, even though we know very well how Troy Barnes acts both when he's on camera and when he's pretending to be a cop, and this wasn't quite either.) But there were some funny moments like Britta failing to record Shirley's emotional confession...
- 3/15/2013
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
In lieu of the standard introduction of interview subjects, I'm going to just explain how I wound up in a room with Peter Cullen, the man who does the voice of Optimus Prime from "Transformers," and -- for reasons I still don't 100 percent understand -- Larry King. Only because, (a) it was one of the most unusual experiences that I've ever been a part of and (b) nothing else really sums up the surrealism of Comic-Con. Put it this way: It's not every day (or any day, until now) that I get called a "nerd" by Larry King after explaining to him the difference between Kitt and Karr from "Knight Rider."
In the week leading up to covering Comic-Con as a member of the press, my email inbox became inundated with requests, offers and invites. Most of them were nonsense, but a few did pique my interests -- like the...
In the week leading up to covering Comic-Con as a member of the press, my email inbox became inundated with requests, offers and invites. Most of them were nonsense, but a few did pique my interests -- like the...
- 7/16/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
In lieu of the standard introduction of interview subjects, I'm going to just explain how I wound up in a room with Peter Cullen, the man who does the voice of Optimus Prime from "Transformers," and -- for reasons I still don't 100 percent understand -- Larry King. Only because, (a) it was one of the most unusual experiences that I've ever been a part of and (b) nothing else really sums up the surrealism of Comic-Con. Put it this way: It's not every day (or any day, until now) that I get called a "nerd" by Larry King after explaining to him the difference between Kitt and Karr from "Knight Rider."
In the week leading up to covering Comic-Con as a member of the press, my email inbox became inundated with requests, offers and invites. Most of them were nonsense, but a few did pique my interests -- like the...
In the week leading up to covering Comic-Con as a member of the press, my email inbox became inundated with requests, offers and invites. Most of them were nonsense, but a few did pique my interests -- like the...
- 7/16/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Aol TV.
Male impersonator Kitty Doner According to the Encyclopedia of Vaudeville press release, you interviewed a number of vaudeville stars. Could you share a couple of anecdotes? [See previous post: The Encyclopedia Of Vaudeville Q&A with Anthony Slide: Vaudeville History.] I had the good fortune to talk with a number of vaudevillians: Milton Berle, George Burns, Fifi D’Orsay, May Foy (of the Seven Little Foys), Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas (of the Nicholas Brothers), Al Rinker (of the Rhythm Boys), Rose Marie, Virginia Sale, Joe Smith (of Smith and Dale), Arthur Tracy, Rudy Vallee, Nancy Welford, and the brilliant Senor Wences (photo). I was [...]...
- 7/5/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
On May 27, 1956, The Ed Sullivan Show scared the crap out of viewers when they aired Peter and Joan Foldes' apocalyptic animation A Short Vision.
The blog Conelrad Adjacent has assembled a detailed history of the broadcast. As our pals at io9 point out, it's hilarious to note that Ed basically sprung the doomsday short film upon his audience with barely a warning - instead promising acts like the ventriloquist Senor Wences, the "winners of the Harvest Moon dance contest and the Hasleves, acrobats."
Here's how Ed introduced Armageddon to his audience:
"Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English writers, two very imaginative writers - I'm gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this .cause it's a fantasy, the whole thing is animated - but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes,...
The blog Conelrad Adjacent has assembled a detailed history of the broadcast. As our pals at io9 point out, it's hilarious to note that Ed basically sprung the doomsday short film upon his audience with barely a warning - instead promising acts like the ventriloquist Senor Wences, the "winners of the Harvest Moon dance contest and the Hasleves, acrobats."
Here's how Ed introduced Armageddon to his audience:
"Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English writers, two very imaginative writers - I'm gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this .cause it's a fantasy, the whole thing is animated - but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes,...
- 6/27/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Despite the title of his personal blog, things are rarely boring in the live of Kevin Smith. He's about to finish the first leg of a very successful run of screenings [1] for his new film Red State and on Sunday, April 10 he'll host Kevin Smith Sells Out in Pasadena, CA where they'll auction off props from many of his earlier films. "In essence, I’ve gotta sell the past if I wanna pay for the future," Smith said in a press release when he first announced the auction in February. Smith will be on hand during the auction recording a live podcast. Besides that huge event, Smith has released yet another full scene [2] from what he says will be his final film as a director, the hockey dramedy Hit Somebody, set to star Nicholas Braun, Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano and possibly Stephen Root, John Goodman and Melissa Leo. Read how...
- 4/7/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Right now, Comedy Central's new Jeff Dunham Show is buzzing in the background and I can't get the voices out of my head. Now I know what it's like to be a ventriloquist and a meth addict.
No disrespect to Dunham and company, but there was a time when throwing your voice was impressive enough to get on television. Check out the late Señor Wences chatting it up with his friends Johnny and Pedro on the original Muppet Show. It's alright.
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No disrespect to Dunham and company, but there was a time when throwing your voice was impressive enough to get on television. Check out the late Señor Wences chatting it up with his friends Johnny and Pedro on the original Muppet Show. It's alright.
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- 10/23/2009
- by Danny Gallagher
- Aol TV.
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