Tag: Orson Welles
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Video: Amazing Steadicam work in ‘Hugo’
Martin Scorsese and Larry McConkey are masters of their crafts. The former is arguably the greatest living director. The latter is one of the world’s foremost Steadicam operators. Their...
Jun 3, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongSidney Lumet’s 5 Best Films
Peter Finch in "Network" #5. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) Lumet’s last film was also one of his best. Following a pair of troublesome brothers who plot to rob their parents’ jewelry...
Apr 16, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongDennis Hopper Dead at 74
Hollywood screen legend, Dennis Hopper, known as one of Tinseltown’s most creative and versatile bad boys died Saturday from complications due to prostate cancer, a friend of the actor told Reuters ....
May 29, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongA Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Nostalgia factors prominently into judgments passed on remakes of beloved films. You may have fond memories of seeing Wes Craven’s 1984 “A Nightmare on Elm Street” as a kid, but chances are if you...
May 5, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongOrson Welles’ Impressive Career Not Over Yet
Even death can’t stop Orson Welles, arguably the greatest filmmaker of all time, from finding his way onto the big screen. Since Welles died in 1985 you may be wondering just how he’ll be...
Mar 28, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongVideo: How to Watch a Martin Scorsese Film
Martin Scorsese is not only our greatest living director, but is perhaps our greatest living film historian. His movies are not only brilliant probes into the depths of the human condition, but are...
Mar 23, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongTruth in Cinema; Does it Matter?: Peter Greenaway’s Rembrandt Experiment
In the last two years, Peter Greenaway has made two films about Rembrandt. More accurately, he’s made two versions of the same film about Rembrandt – a tableau-vivant period piece (“Nightwatching”)...
Nov 21, 2009 / Jesse CataldoHopkins, Bening Join Garcia in ‘Hemingway’
Andy Garcia has coaxed Hollywood royalty, Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening, to co-star with him in “Hemingway and Fuentes,” which Garcia will also direct. Variety reports that Garcia, along with...
Nov 5, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTMA’s 25 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time
Sports and movies have much in common. They make us laugh, cry, shout for joy, and smash things uncontrollably (this only happens at really bad movies). So, it’s only natural that they overlap in...
Aug 26, 2009 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Waterfront’ Writer, Budd Schulberg, Dies at 95
Elia Kazan’s breathtaking “On the Waterfront” is a transcendent work of cinema that cuts to the core of the human condition — it also features perhaps Marlon Brando’s greatest performance. But it...
Aug 6, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongMoon (2009)
Considering David Bowie’s longstanding and highly lucrative infatuation with all things celestial, e.g. Space Oddity (1969), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972),...
Jul 20, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongTop Ten Movies of 2007
Last year was an excellent year for American cinema. A phrase rarely uttered, but entirely deserved by the year of 2007. There were at least four or five films that each could have taken Best Picture...
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