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The Asphalt Jungle (1949) by WR Burnett was an absolute banger. Fatalistic, tragic noir from the perpetrators’ perspective. Criminals who are all too human (a phrase Burnett actually uses) as well as of course being ‘types’...

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Great doomy noir-Western from Raoul Walsh, a remake of his own High Sierra. An outlaw on the run is reluctantly persuaded to take one one last job, a train heist, but finds himself beset by double-crosses on all sides. Fantastic location shooting and McCrea, Mayo and Malone are all terrific.

But We Can Sing Our Hearts Out: On Elaine May's Ishtar | BW/DR From the moment that 'Ishtar'—a big budget comedy combining the talents of Elaine May, Warren Beatty, and Dustin Hoffman—was announced, its legend has loomed large.

“While Elaine May has long been an absurdist at heart, she’s a humanist as well, and the interplay of these two philosophies often results in a fascinating, utterly unique kind of cinema.”

Writing About Elaine May: An Interview with Carrie Courogen - Bright Wall/Dark Room The author of Miss May Does Not Exist opens up about writing a book on the famously elusive Elaine May, and her own deep love for Ishtar.

New today on the site!!!

An interview with @carriecourogen.bsky.social on writing the first fulls scale biography about the elusive & ever brilliant Elaine May, going down internet rabbit holes, her writing inspirations, and a deep love for ISHTAR.

But the @plumeriapics.bsky.social Blu-ray is a thing of beauty

This iconic music video was produced by Aardman Animations, with one of the animators being Nick Park, the future creator of Wallace & Gromit www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJ...

Now available to pre-order (USA Amazon, MoviesUnlimited and DeepDiscount), for details and links see >> www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Es...

Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich) #TitleCardTuesday #filmsky

Featured a telephone answering machine decades before they became widely used.

When Mike Hammer crushes the coroner's fingers, his screams are the same used in King Kong for the sailors during the dinosaur attack and the log scene

And, here's the full look at the franchise that was never meant to be, co-starring an actor who never should have played the role that he did, now in glorious 4K!

Hal Ashby and The Last Detail. Sally Kellerman's work with Robert Altman and then Alan Rudolph. These are the films I was thinking about during Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins. It is a freewheeling comedy-drama that is mostly on the road, with sojourns to Las Vegas and Tucson.

A ★★★★ review of Colorado Territory (1949) Raoul Walsh reworks HIGH SIERRA into a western setting, cleverly accepting the plain fact that Joel McCrea, as good as he is, just isn't as dangerous as Bogart, shifting the accent onto his female cha...

... the same basic story brilliantly reworked into a western setting by Walsh in COLORADO TERRITORY... /2
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A ★★★★ review of High Sierra (1941) There are few sounds better in the film world than Max Steiner's fanfare followed by an Adolph Deutsch score for a Bogart noir: Warners pulled off that stunt twice in 1941. With the fantastic HIGH SIE...

Two quickies, from the same Criterion Blu-ray set - first, Raoul Walsh lights the blue-touch paper for Humphrey Bogart with HIGH SIERRA, and then ... /1
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BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Boxing Ellen and Mark explore cinema's most heavyweight genre, 50 years on from Rocky.

Haven't been crossposting to Bluesky as much lately, but wanted to drop by to share my chat with @kermodemovie.bsky.social for BBC Screenshot on my pet obsession: boxing & its cinematic depiction. Delighted as ever to be a guest on the show.

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elaine may 94th bday........ur all actually legally required to buy my book today. most people don't know this but it's true bit.ly/missmaymacmi...

Another clip from our latest episode! Our guests Leonard Maltin and Jessie Maltin discuss Paramount's difficulty selling Billy Wilder's now-classic ACE IN THE HOLE.

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Happy 94th Birthday Elaine May 😍

Film-wise: at 9, Seven Psychopaths on Sky Comedy, Kingsman on Film4 or Fight Or Flight on Sky1. At 10.40, Four Weddings & A Funeral on BBC1. At 11, Out Of Sight on LegendXtra. At 11.30, Prince: Sign O’ The Times on SkyArts. At 11.35, The Royal Hotel on BBC3. At 11.40, Jennifer’s Body on Film4 #telly

"How much injustice would you perpetuate in the name of the law?"

Martin Balsam and Franco Nero face off with different views of justice and the law in Damiano Damiani's investigative thriller.

Delighted to say that ‘The Cooler’, the cracking thriller from ‘The Prisoner’ co-creator George Markstein, will be on sale at Six of One’s #Portmeiricon this weekend. Be seeing you!

Not going to be there? Get yours at PlumeriaPics.co.uk

The Directors Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306

Coming soon! Channel Premiere: Every Sunday beginning Sunday 10th May, 6pm!
THE DIRECTORS - documentary series featuring the films of #AlfredHitchcock #SamPeckinpah #StanleyKubrick #WilliamWyler #JohnFord and many more! #TPTVsubtitles

It's been a good fifteen years since I read Albert Camus's novel, but François Ozon's film is a fairly faithful adaptation. It ends up on screen as coolly analytical procedural, which captures the events, the death and murder, but perhaps not the ferocity of alienation that is the heart of the book.

Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin stand side by side in the movie Midnight Run.

Robert De Niro and #botd Charles Grodin in Midnight Run (1988) dir. Martin Brest 🎬
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Last repost. I haven't mentioned it because it's been depressing me so much but Marswasrubbish (my prints "business") is now costing me more to keep going than it's making. It might just be a bad couple of months but I obviously can't keep doing it if this keeps up.

Joan Fontaine in the 1947 film Ivy

Slarek has reviewed the new @indicator.bsky.social Blu-ray release of IVY, a splendid and too often forgotten 1947 film starring a Joan Fontaine, one whose early romantic drama overtones dissolve into something more darkly sinister tinyurl.com/4k56y4us

Former Odeon Cinema, Morecambe - William Calder Robson for Harry Weedon and Partners, 1937 Image © Philip Butler

Odeon Cinema, Morecambe - William Calder Robson for Harry Weedon and Partners, 1937 Image © John Maltby

NEWS: The former Odeon Cinema in Morecambe (1937), now a hardware and bathroom supply shop, has been Grade II listed following support from C20 Society.

The Streamlined Moderne style cinema was one of 7 designed for Odeon by architect William Calder Robson; 3 of which survive, all are now listed.

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A favourite movie of parents and grandparents, getting older only makes me appreciate the deft sight gags and wry world-view of Jacques Tati even more. 1971's Trafic wasn't a hit at the time, but it's a sweet swan-song for his Monseiur Hulot character. 4 out of 5.
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THESE ISLES: Dame Shirley Bassey, born in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay in 1937, is famed for her powerful, sultry voice and sequined gowns. In a career spanning more than 70 years, she has sold more than 140m records, making her one of the world’s best-selling female singers. 1/7

Blondie - Atomic YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

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The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.

I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.