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- February 17th, 2009, 11:57 am
- Forum: Classic Cinema College
- Topic: Class on Kenji Mizoguchi starts this Thursday in Chicago
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Class on Kenji Mizoguchi starts this Thursday in Chicago
I am starting a class on the amazing films of Kenji Mizoguchi this Thursday, February 19th, at Facets Multimedia in Chicago. If you happen to be in or around the lovely and wintery city over the next six weeks I would love to have people come on by. Consider this an invitation to try out one of the ...
- April 2nd, 2008, 4:27 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Something Wild - April 9
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6808
Thank you for the shout out ChiO! What fascinates me about the film is the way it forms a sort of phantom biography of the director who's experiences as a child who survived Aushwitz, and who's parents did not. As a film it says fascinating things how the powerless sometimes ingratiate themselves in...
- March 27th, 2008, 4:19 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Produced by Albert Zugsmith
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2482
- March 21st, 2008, 7:21 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Stars in My Crown, Easter Morning
- Replies: 37
- Views: 52839
Stars in My Crown, Easter Morning
When is a western not a western? Joel McCrea stars in this crown, a post civil war story about a pastor (from the Confederate side) who ventures out west to start a congregation and a family. So yes, it is set in the west but it is closer in spirit to the gentle Americana John Ford handled in his Wi...
- March 14th, 2008, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: Coming Up on TCM
- Replies: 850
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- March 2nd, 2008, 4:26 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: Richard Fleischer
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5227
Only of the reasons I think Fleischer is interesting is in the details he lets play out. I am thinking in New Centurions right before George C. Scott exits the picture, so to speak, we see a POV shot form his room at the contemporary sprawl of LA and it tells you everything you need to know about wh...
- February 17th, 2008, 7:21 pm
- Forum: Film Noir and Crime
- Topic: The Line Up
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3521
It's funny to think of this as a spinoff of a tv series as that usually implies a cheap ripoff, here Siegel expands on the characters and plotting by concentrating just as much on the crooks, especially the great Eli Wallach, and a ending, on a half constructed freeway that is fantastic. What always...
- February 13th, 2008, 8:06 pm
- Forum: Welcome New Members!
- Topic: Hello, Hello
- Replies: 16
- Views: 24897
- February 13th, 2008, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Welcome New Members!
- Topic: Hello, Hello
- Replies: 16
- Views: 24897
Hello, Hello
I just wanted tosay Hi, having joined last night after having heard about the board form ChiO. Just to let you know, I have been teaching film history and appreciation classes at Facets Multimedia in Chicago for 10 years. Some of the classes have included: "The late films of Billy Wilder" ...