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It's fun when festival audiences get used to the character actors who keep showing up in these movies. Anita Bolster played the bossy housekeeper in the first movie last night, and then she got some...

The festival kicked off last night with a packed house at the Castro Theatre, starting with Serena Bramble's latest tribute montage, centered on San Francisco noir. After a few concentrated minutes...

Wow, very cool. She's beautiful and very talented. Stop being honest and just take credit for all her accomplishments, Andrew. ;)

The trailer looked pretty good, and the reviews are almost uniformly positive, so I'll be checking it out this weekend as well.

Afternoon matinees have been my preferred time for new movies for...

Sounds like an interesting project--thanks for the details, Andrew. I haven't seen Sam Riley in anything, but hopefully he'll be good...a young Richard Attenborough is a tough act to follow.

It...

She was also great that same year in SIDE STREET.

Yes, though mine is a bit complicated, almost a Spaceballs-level distant relative: one of my great uncles (my mom's uncle) was married to one of the sisters of Sydney Tafler, who appeared in a lot of...

Most likely, you can get it offline as well--I was in a local B&N the other day and saw a bunch of Criterions marked down 50%.

That was what I figured...I don't think any movie reviews today mention aspect ratios either. DVD/Blu-ray reviews do, but not theatrical reviews.

I don't think IMDB info on this issue should be treated as definitive for movies where it's the subject of any controversy (and it does say "1.85:1 intended ratio" for Nightfall). If you think the...

Are you sure about the original aspect ratios for Nightfall and Brothers Rico? Things frequently get confusing around that era when Hollywood started switching from the old ratio (around 1953/54),...

Different strokes, I guess...I loved it.



I can't see this as a valid criticism--now there are rules for what dream sequences in movies are supposed to look like? Christopher Nolan's concept...

I saw this at a screening last fall, as part of a European film festival. The original footage is fascinating, as are a lot of the stories about the production. There are some recreated scenes with...

Just watched this one for the first time, in the new Columbia Vol. 2 noir set. What a great role for Conte, and I'm sure it was interesting to hear James Darren reminisce at Palm Springs when it...

I didn't realize there was a connection between this movie and one of those shorts. Looking it up, Losey had directed a Crime Does Not Pay short called "A Gun in His Hand," about a cop who works...

Though in that case, it was just a short story. They filmed pretty much the whole story for the opening, and then the rest of the script was expanded from that.

The Killers is my favorite, but an underrated one (not really a candidate for the best, but still great) is the opening-scene holdup in PUSHOVER. You don't see any of the robbers for the rest of the...

There was definitely note-taking involved!

Great to hear that the interviews will be up on the FNF site.

Sorry for the two-weeks late report, but things have been busy since the festival, which was a huge success. Apparently it sent a new attendance record for the ten-year-old festival, even though...

Excellent review, Professor. I just finished watching this one for the first time. I hadn't even thought about the angle of the real son's fate, probably because of the overall breezy tone you...

I think the Kirk Douglas intro at Palm Springs for Strange Love of Martha Ivers will be a recorded intro, not a personal appearance. The other listed guests are scheduled to be there in person.

Great Britain's Ealing Studios, best known for their pre- and post-war working class comedies, occasionally went off the reservation to more daring subject matter. One of the most successful...

I do love me some Carla Gugino. Good quote from her: "in noir there is generally someone who needs something they are not getting."

Phillip Seymour Hoffman has carved out a pretty nice career in that rumpled/overweight niche, though it might be hard to see him playing a role like the one in The Mob.

Nice writeup on an interesting movie. A lot of the disease-fighting stuff is very preachy and, I think, doesn't hold up too well. But I do love Evelyn Keyes, and the whole storyline with her...