Stripper in love: 'A Cold Wind in August' (1961)
Teenage rebellion: 'Riot on Sunset Strip' (1967)
Bury my heart in Scottsdale: 'The Ransom' (1977)
Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' at Violet Crown
Hit man Pitt: 'Killing Them Softly' (2012)
Showing posts with label Classic Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classic Film. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
More, More, More J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Even More of J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner
Music Monday at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz: Ken Russell's 'Lisztomania' (1975)
'The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live in Texas 1978' tonight at Alamo Lake Creek
A twit's progress: 'Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush' (1968)
'The Triple Echo' a/k/a 'Soldier in Skirts' (1972)
For the birds: 'The Girl' (2012)
Robert Aldrich's 'The Legend of Lylah Clare' (1968)
Herbert Lom's greatest hits
Of drapery and dementia: 'The Cobweb' (1955)
Phyllis Diller's greatest hits
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner on Facebook, Twitter
The movie column is back.J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner now has a page on Facebook for fans and friends of the column to post about their favorite movies and upcoming classic film happenings in Austin.
In addition to linking the latest review and features from the Austin Classic Movies Examiner, the Facebook page will also feature evergreens from the first three years of the columnm including the "Greatest Hits" series (Natalie Wood's Greatest Hits, Marlon Brando's Greatest Hits, Martin Scorcese's Greatest Hits, etc.).
The regular screenings of rare 35mm prints at the Alamo Drafthouse and the Paramount Theatre's classic film series will continue to drive the column's Austin-centric approach.
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Recommended reading:
- Scenes from a Marriage on the Rocks: Two for the Road (1967)
- Lady in a Rage: David Cronenberg's 'The Brood' (1979)
- Cannibalism, Savagery, and Unconditional Love: Jack Hill's Spider Baby (1968)
- To Put Out or Not to Put Out: The Young Lovers (1964)
- Ken Russell's Greatest Hits
- Dennis Hopper's Greatest Hits
- Paul Newman's Greatest Hits
- The Greatest Biker Movies Ever Made
- The Greatest Horror Movies of the '60s
- Made in Texas: Giant (1956)
- Angry Young Bastard: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961)
- Fun and Games with George and Martha: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Don't Look Back, Ollie: I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (1967)
- Natalie Wood's Greatest Hits
Sunday, July 11, 2010
More, More, More from J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner
Alamo Cinema Club presents 'The Prowler' and 'Cry Danger' with Eddie Muller Pseudo-Noir on Sunset: The Strip (1951)
Film Writer Kim Morgan talks 'Night Nurse,' Pre-Code Cinema, and Barbara Stanwyck
Swamp Things: Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
Death Trip: Vanishing Point (1971)
The Greatest Horror Movies of the '60s
The Greatest Horror Movies of the '70s
Lady in a Rage: David Cronenberg's 'The Brood' (1979)
Paul Newman's Greatest HitsSunday, May 2, 2010
My Interview with Kim Morgan
The image conjured up by the term "film writer" is generally that of a pale, bespectacled, balding, middle-aged guy in a rumpled suit. Kim Morgan is not your typical film writer: blonde, beautiful, funny and effervescent, with a ferocious intelligence, she is also an authority on Film Noir and "Pre-Code" cinema. To paraphrase the late, great Lux Interior of the Cramps, "She got good taste."
In addition to writing movie columns for L.A. Weekly, The Huffington Post, the MSN Movies blog, and her own Sunset Gun, Morgan has been working the festival circuit, most recently presenting and moderating screenings of Barfly with director Barbet Schroeder and Synedoche, New York with writer/director Charlie Kauffman at Ebertfest in Chicago.
This Sunday May 2nd, Morgan will introduce the Alamo Cinema Club's presentation of 1931's Night Nurse, directed by William Wellman, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, and Clark Gable, and preside over the Q&A with the Alamo's Lars Nilsen.
Kim sat down with the Austin Classic Movies Examiner to discuss 'Night Nurse,' Pre-Code Cinema, and the great Barbara Stanwyck.The period between the dawn of the talkies and the enforcement of the production code produced a lot of great films, many of which were much grittier, racier, and more realistic than the ones that followed. What do you find most compelling about pre-code cinema?
So much. There’s a fascinating mixture of gritty realism and beauty, thoughtful explication of society, particularly regarding the depression, and then, flat out exploitation (but good exploitation, and there is good exploitation). There’s unique faces, young actors revealing the charisma that will make them enormous movie stars in the near future. There’s cinematic invention -- the talkies produced so many challenges for filmmakers and some of them, Wellman included, created some staggeringly beautiful moments (look at those gorgeous faces in his silent film Wings, look at that innovative, moving opening shot of the hospital in Night Nurse). These movies are old, but they feel new to me. They move. They’re fast. They’re funny and smart and usually beautifully crafted. And they’re still relevant today
What makes Night Nurse such a great example of pre-code filmmaking?
Night Nurse is about breaking rules. Pre-code is, essentially, about breaking rules. There’s so much discussion of ethics vs. humanity in Night Nurse that is especially interesting and again, remains timeless. And then all of the “salacious” elements. From Stanwyck and Blondell constantly dressing and undressing, Gable slugging and drugging women, starving children for money, the bootlegger as hero. And that ending! The ending is one of the greatest pre-code endings – ever. I don’t want to give it away here.
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The Alamo Cinema Club presents Night Nurse, presented by film writer Kim Morgan, Sunday May 2nd at 7 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 East Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
More from JM Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner
Ann-Margret's Greatest HitsDecadenza Italiano: Antonioni's L'Avventura (1960)
Hassle at the Castle: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Blaxploitation classics at the Alamo: J.D.'s Revenge (1976) and Black Caesar (1973)
Amadeus (Director's Cut)
Double Feature Midnight Movies at the Spider House February 2010
"Garbo Laughs!": Ninotchka (1939)
Jack Nicholson's Greatest Hits
To Put Out or Not to Put Out: The Young Lovers (1964)
Angry Young Bastard: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Monday, January 18, 2010
Alamo Weird Wednesday Presents Lord Love a Duck
The Austin Classic Movies Examiner (that'd be me) previews this week's Weird Wednesday selection at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, George Axelrod's 1966 satire Lord Love a Duck, starring Roddy McDowall and the luscious Tuesday Weld.Click HERE to read it.
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Other recent articles by JM Dobies:
The Action Pack presents the Pulp Fiction Quote-Along at Alamo Drafthouse
Friday, January 15, 2010
JM Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner
I am now the Austin Classic Movies Examiner, in addition to my role as Dallas Celebrity Headlines Examiner.You can now read my stuff without being embarrassed, appalled, or nauseated by the subject matter. Read about great films and the icons of the silver screen rather than the latest misdeeds of drug-addled Z-list actors and sub-human reality TV scum. Or you can do both, and that'll be even better for me, because I get paid by the page view!
You can subscribe to my Classic Movie columns via email HERE.
First up, A Streetcar Named Desire, which is being presented as part of "Alamo Iron Chef VI: The Battle for Sixth Street" next Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 East Sixth Street in Austin. Click HERE to read all about it.
Then, it's an homage to my favorite existential road movie, Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop. Click HERE to read that one.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Paramount Theatre's Summer 2009 Film Classics
Paramount Theatre's Summer 2009 Film Classics series kicks off this weekend with Casablanca and From Here to Eternity, and continues all summer long with a nice program featuring new prints, restored foreign classics, 70mm spectaculars, and more. Programs generally include a killer double feature and a classic Warner Brothers cartoon.
Other highlights include Buster Keaton's The General with musical acccompaniment by Guy Forsyth (May 28), a tribute to Paul Newman (July 5-12), and "Saluting the '70s" (July 14-22).
For more information, go to austintheatre.org.
Other highlights include Buster Keaton's The General with musical acccompaniment by Guy Forsyth (May 28), a tribute to Paul Newman (July 5-12), and "Saluting the '70s" (July 14-22).
For more information, go to austintheatre.org.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The Best of BLOG! 2007
Brave Hater 10.1.07: Our Favorite Year and 8.27.07: The One-Pitch Comeback
The Chunk Records Story: Parts One, Two, and Three.
Getting Fired and Getting Fired 2: Electric Boogaloo.
The Glory Stompers
Horror Movie Reviews at Viewpoints.com (November 2007)
Led Schleppelin: 13 Hours at the Crestwood
Lord Love a Duck
The Night Owl Drive-In
The Oliver Reed Film Festival: The '60s, The '70s, and The '80s 'Til Death.
Under Friday Night Lights
So there 'tis, the best of BLOG! by JM Dobies.
Nominated in multiple categories for the 2008 Bloggie Awards .
A gala awards ceremony, where the winner of the ultra-prestigious Weblog of the Year will recieve a check for $20.08, will be held right here in Austin, Texas, USA at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in March.
Good night and Good Luck.
JM Dobies
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