https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcgWO-hxZls Here’s an excerpt from an interview with John Cassavetes, taken from the documentary “Cineaste de notre temps” (1968). I feel like I’ve posted the entire doc before (long long ago) but am not finding it on YouTube currently. So this tantalizing bit, featuring Cassavetes driving a convertible along Mulholland
Continuing this weeks theme of Escargot-eating, croissant-chowing, Gitagne-puffing, Burgundy-swilling French guys interviewing tough-ass directors (see Monday’s Don Siegel post and yesterday’s Sam Fuller post) here is the great writer-director Richard Brooks discussing his adaptation of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’. Back in the 1980s, cinema journalists Phillippe Garnier and Claude
Today I’m posting a very entertaining ten-minute behind the scenes doc of the making of ‘Dog Day Afternoon’, easily one of my favorite–if not the favorite–New York City movies. (Yesterday I posted a behind the scenes look at ‘Tootsie’, the first of a series of NYC movie shoots of the
‘Cuckoo On A Choo Choo’ (1952) was the 143rd short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, April 21 through Wednesday, April 23, 1952 and was released on Thursday, December 4th of that year (the 339th day on the Gregorian Calendar). The film
‘Three Dark Horses’ (1952) is the 142nd short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. No production dates are available but the film was released on Thursday, October 16th, 1952 (the 290th day on the Gregorian Calendar) just three weeks before the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower to
‘A Ducking They Did Go’ ( 1939) is the 38th short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Tuesday, November 15th through Friday, November 18th, 1938 and was released on Friday, April 7th 1939 (the 97th day on the Gregorian Calendar as well as
Here’s a remarkable piece of film. It’s the surviving five minutes from an otherwise lost 1933 film called ‘Mr. Broadway’, featuring a very young Ed Sullivan (you can see him in a couple of cutaways sitting at a table with Bert Lahr). The film is essential viewing for any devotee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bBG3R_ex60https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nPoSWtv-k Though the weekend wouldn’t be complete without some Three Stooges action, I thought I’d mix things up a bit today and, instead of offering a short comedy, offer a fascinating short reel of home movies featuring the boys. These were shot at some point in the early-to- mid 30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdNDRDsFdk0 Let’s tie together this weeks poker on film theme with our now regular Friday’s-with-Ernie Kovacs feature with this little poker-themed nugget from a 1961 Kovacs special. Let me be honest; it’s not very good. But its important to remember that visionaries like Kovacs often are more process-oriented than result-driven
To commemorate the year of my birth (my 60th b’day is coming up in a fast 27 days) I’m posting a few minutes of excellently restored home movie footage taken from a car driving around Hollywood in that banner year of 1964. In addition to this being particularly high quality