Fat Ham, playwright James Ijames’ comedy-drama reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today, just days before the acclaimed play is to make its New York debut at the Public Theater Off Broadway.
“A funny, poignant play that deftly transposes Hamlet to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility and honesty,” said Pulitzer Prize Administrator Marjorie Miller in announcing the prize. Fat Ham took the honor over two other finalists, Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury and Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord by Kristina Wong.
Fat Ham, which premiered last year in a filmed production for the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, begins its New York engagement at the Public Theater on May 12, running through June 12. A co-production with National Black Theatre, Fat Ham will be directed by Saheem Ali.
Watch a trailer for the Wilma Theater production of Fat Ham above.
“A funny, poignant play that deftly transposes Hamlet to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility and honesty,” said Pulitzer Prize Administrator Marjorie Miller in announcing the prize. Fat Ham took the honor over two other finalists, Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury and Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord by Kristina Wong.
Fat Ham, which premiered last year in a filmed production for the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, begins its New York engagement at the Public Theater on May 12, running through June 12. A co-production with National Black Theatre, Fat Ham will be directed by Saheem Ali.
Watch a trailer for the Wilma Theater production of Fat Ham above.
- 5/9/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s play that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will be getting its Broadway premiere this fall, the Manhattan Theatre Club announced today.
The announcement follows an acclaimed Off Broadway run of the play by Mtc. The director Joe Bonney and stars Katy Sullivan and Gregg Mozgala will resume their roles for the Broadway staging at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Additional casting, creative team, and other information including preview and opening dates will be announced later.
Cost of Living premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2016 and appeared Off Broadway the following year. The play follows the relationships between a graduate student with cerebral palsy and his female caregiver, and between a quadriplegic woman and her ex-husband. The Pulitzer committee described Cost of Living as an “honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs...
The announcement follows an acclaimed Off Broadway run of the play by Mtc. The director Joe Bonney and stars Katy Sullivan and Gregg Mozgala will resume their roles for the Broadway staging at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Additional casting, creative team, and other information including preview and opening dates will be announced later.
Cost of Living premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2016 and appeared Off Broadway the following year. The play follows the relationships between a graduate student with cerebral palsy and his female caregiver, and between a quadriplegic woman and her ex-husband. The Pulitzer committee described Cost of Living as an “honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs...
- 4/28/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch will write the music and lyrics for an upcoming musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Welch will compose the music alongside Thomas Bartlett. Bartlett makes music under the name Doveman and previously earned an Oscar and Grammy nomination for his collaboration with Sufjan Stevens, “Mystery of Love,” from the Call Me By Your Name soundtrack.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature.
Welch will compose the music alongside Thomas Bartlett. Bartlett makes music under the name Doveman and previously earned an Oscar and Grammy nomination for his collaboration with Sufjan Stevens, “Mystery of Love,” from the Call Me By Your Name soundtrack.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature.
- 4/28/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A new stage musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece The Great Gatsby is headed for Broadway, with music by Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch and Oscar-nominated “Mystery of Love” song producer Thomas Bartlett.
The musical, announced today by producers Len Blavatnik and Amanda Ghost for Unigram in association with Robert Fox, will feature a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok, with Welch writing lyrics. Olivier Award nominee Rebecca Frecknall (the West End’s Summer and Smoke) will direct.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honor to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”
Bartlett, a singer and pianist who has released four solo...
The musical, announced today by producers Len Blavatnik and Amanda Ghost for Unigram in association with Robert Fox, will feature a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok, with Welch writing lyrics. Olivier Award nominee Rebecca Frecknall (the West End’s Summer and Smoke) will direct.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honor to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”
Bartlett, a singer and pianist who has released four solo...
- 4/28/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The horror-comedy can be tricky to pull off. But when it’s done right, it can deliver shocking results. In the haunted-house-sex-farce “Happily,” a whole lot of shocks are crammed into one neat package, arriving like an anniversary present with a dark secret.
Read More: The 25 Most Anticipated Horror Movies Of 2021
The idea for the film came from writer-director BenDavid Grabinski, a screenwriter best known for his genre mashups.
Continue reading ‘Happily’: A Refreshing And Subversive Marital Horror-Comedy [Review] at The Playlist.
Read More: The 25 Most Anticipated Horror Movies Of 2021
The idea for the film came from writer-director BenDavid Grabinski, a screenwriter best known for his genre mashups.
Continue reading ‘Happily’: A Refreshing And Subversive Marital Horror-Comedy [Review] at The Playlist.
- 4/2/2021
- by Asher Luberto
- The Playlist
Downtown Boys have released a video for “L’Internationale,” their cover of the communist anthem from the Italian film Miss Marx.
The film is a biopic about Karl Marx’s daughter, Eleanor Marx (played by Romola Garai), and features outtakes from the film — raucous, fuzzed-out guitar riffs and Victoria Ruiz’s vocals accompanying the scenes.
“This year, we saw people throughout the globe come together amidst the pain of and struggle against police brutality and the loss of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,” the band said in a statement. “We...
The film is a biopic about Karl Marx’s daughter, Eleanor Marx (played by Romola Garai), and features outtakes from the film — raucous, fuzzed-out guitar riffs and Victoria Ruiz’s vocals accompanying the scenes.
“This year, we saw people throughout the globe come together amidst the pain of and struggle against police brutality and the loss of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,” the band said in a statement. “We...
- 10/14/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Prentice Penny and Martyna Majok are teaming up to develop a drama series based on Majok’s play “Queens” at HBO.
“Queens” examines the lives of two generations of immigrant women that collide in a basement apartment in Queens, as the choices they’ve made about their security, dignity, and desires come back to confront them.
Majok will adapt the play for the screen and serve as executive producer, with Penny executive producing under his A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment banner. Alex Soler of Penny for Your Thoughts will serve as co-executive producer. Soler is said to have been instrumental in bringing Penny and Majok together for this project.
Penny is currently under an overall deal at HBO, where he serves as the showrunner and executive producer on the critically-acclaimed comedy series “Insecure.” The show was recently renewed for a fifth season. His other TV credits include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,...
“Queens” examines the lives of two generations of immigrant women that collide in a basement apartment in Queens, as the choices they’ve made about their security, dignity, and desires come back to confront them.
Majok will adapt the play for the screen and serve as executive producer, with Penny executive producing under his A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment banner. Alex Soler of Penny for Your Thoughts will serve as co-executive producer. Soler is said to have been instrumental in bringing Penny and Majok together for this project.
Penny is currently under an overall deal at HBO, where he serves as the showrunner and executive producer on the critically-acclaimed comedy series “Insecure.” The show was recently renewed for a fifth season. His other TV credits include “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
HBO has put in development drama series Queens, based on the play by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok, with Insecure executive producer, writer and director Prentice Penny executive producing via his A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment production company. Majok will pen the adaptation and executive produce.
Queens revolves around the lives of two generations of immigrant women that collide in a basement apartment in Queens, as the choices they’ve made about their security, dignity, and desires come back to confront them. When trying to move your life forward, what cannot – and should not – be left behind?
Alex Soler co-executive produces via A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment.
Penny serves as showrunner, executive producer and frequent director for HBO’s popular comedy Insecure, which is currently airing its fourth season and has already been renewed for season 5. Penny recently made his feature directorial debut in the upcoming Netflix original film Uncorked,...
Queens revolves around the lives of two generations of immigrant women that collide in a basement apartment in Queens, as the choices they’ve made about their security, dignity, and desires come back to confront them. When trying to move your life forward, what cannot – and should not – be left behind?
Alex Soler co-executive produces via A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment.
Penny serves as showrunner, executive producer and frequent director for HBO’s popular comedy Insecure, which is currently airing its fourth season and has already been renewed for season 5. Penny recently made his feature directorial debut in the upcoming Netflix original film Uncorked,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Last month, we reported on a hilarious new video series created by YouTuber Ryan’s Edits which found a whole new way to enjoy outtakes. The video editor took the funniest bloopers from Star Trek: The Next Generation and reintegrated them into their original scenes, creating bizarre out-of-character moments for the Enterprise-d crew. Since then, many more have been posted that Trek fans will definitely want to check out.
I’ve highlighted one of the best in the player above, for instance, which makes use of a blooper from season 3’s “A Matter of Perspective.” The actual scene is super-serious, as Cmmdr. Riker is accused of murder – but this “intake” version gives things a comedic spin as, when introducing Riker, Captain Picard can’t remember his own Number One’s name (thanks to Patrick Stewart having momentary memory loss when filming).
Star Trek: Picard Bts Photos Reveals Unexpected Tng Reunion...
I’ve highlighted one of the best in the player above, for instance, which makes use of a blooper from season 3’s “A Matter of Perspective.” The actual scene is super-serious, as Cmmdr. Riker is accused of murder – but this “intake” version gives things a comedic spin as, when introducing Riker, Captain Picard can’t remember his own Number One’s name (thanks to Patrick Stewart having momentary memory loss when filming).
Star Trek: Picard Bts Photos Reveals Unexpected Tng Reunion...
- 5/11/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Review by Roger Carpenter
Throughout the course of history an occasional film has been singled out as being particularly controversial. As far back as the silent era you had films like The Birth of a Nation, which drew widespread protests for its content. Frankenstein was another early film which had to be cut before being shown at theaters. There are plenty of others as well. Think about The Last Temptation of Christ, Last Tango in Paris, A Clockwork Orange. Then there’s Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom, Cannibal Holocaust, and The Passion of the Christ. The list is endless. In early 1981, when Maniac was released to theaters, it too, was met with huge controversy. News reports ran nightly upon the release of the film in various cities. It was picketed, protested, cut, censored, and outright banned in parts of the world. Most critics roasted the film for its depiction of...
Throughout the course of history an occasional film has been singled out as being particularly controversial. As far back as the silent era you had films like The Birth of a Nation, which drew widespread protests for its content. Frankenstein was another early film which had to be cut before being shown at theaters. There are plenty of others as well. Think about The Last Temptation of Christ, Last Tango in Paris, A Clockwork Orange. Then there’s Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom, Cannibal Holocaust, and The Passion of the Christ. The list is endless. In early 1981, when Maniac was released to theaters, it too, was met with huge controversy. News reports ran nightly upon the release of the film in various cities. It was picketed, protested, cut, censored, and outright banned in parts of the world. Most critics roasted the film for its depiction of...
- 12/24/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
San Sebastian will pay tribute to the filmmaker Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival San Sebastian Film Festival has announced it will pay tribute to Us filmmaker Joseph Losey during its 2017 edition.
The director, who moved to Britain after suffering fallout from the Hollywood witch hunt, became a leading figure in European independent film. His work includes The Servant, Accident and The Go-Between.
His work is divided into three periods: his early period in North American film until the early Fifties, the prestige he achieved in the UK of the Sixties and Seventies and a later, more itinerant stage when he worked for Italian, French and Spanish production.
He made his feature debut in 1948 with The Boy With Green Hair, a parable against war, totalitarianism and intransigence towards difference, produced by Rko. He went on to direct a series of film noirs – The Lawless (1950), The Prowler (1951) and The Big Night...
The director, who moved to Britain after suffering fallout from the Hollywood witch hunt, became a leading figure in European independent film. His work includes The Servant, Accident and The Go-Between.
His work is divided into three periods: his early period in North American film until the early Fifties, the prestige he achieved in the UK of the Sixties and Seventies and a later, more itinerant stage when he worked for Italian, French and Spanish production.
He made his feature debut in 1948 with The Boy With Green Hair, a parable against war, totalitarianism and intransigence towards difference, produced by Rko. He went on to direct a series of film noirs – The Lawless (1950), The Prowler (1951) and The Big Night...
- 2/8/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Horton Foote, Lillian Hellman and Arthur Penn's All-Star vision of an Ugly America found few friends in 1965; now its overstated scenes of social injustice and violence are daily events. Marlon Brando leads a terrific cast -- Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall! -- to endure the worst Saturday ever to hit one cursed Texas township. The Chase (1966) Blu-ray Twilight Time 1966 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 134 min. / Street Date October 11, 2016 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95 Starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins, Martha Hyer, Richard Bradford, Robert Duvall, James Fox, Diana Hyland, Henry Hull, Jocelyn Brando, Clifton James, Steve Ihnat Cinematography Joseph Lashelle Production Designer Richard Day Art Direction Robert Luthardt Film Editor Gene Milford Original Music John Barry Written by Lillian Hellman from the novel by Horton Foote Produced by Sam Spiegel Directed by Arthur Penn
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson...
- 10/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Joseph Losey doesn't normally make trendy, lighthearted genre films, and in this SuperSpy epic we find out why -- an impressive production and great music don't compensate for a lack of pace and dynamism, not to mention a narrow sense of humor. Yet it's a lounge classic, and a perverse favorite of spy movie fans. Modesty Blaise Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1966 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 119 min. / Street Date August 23, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Michael Craig, Clive Revill, Alexander Knox, Rossella Falk, Scilla Gabel, Tina Marquand Cinematography Jack Hildyard Production Designer Richard MacDonald, Jack Shampan Film Editor Reginald Beck Original Music John Dankworth Written by Evan Jones from a novel by Peter O'Donnell and a comic strip by Jim Holdaway Produced by Joseph Janni Directed by Joseph Losey
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When I first reviewed a DVD of Modesty Blaise fourteen years ago,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When I first reviewed a DVD of Modesty Blaise fourteen years ago,...
- 7/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Do you like your noir heroes bitter and bruised, and your noir dames daring and resourceful? Phil Karlson's gem of a thriller pits two-fisted John Payne against murderous hood Brad Dexter, with Peggie Castle the unfaithful, unlucky wife who decides to run off with the wrong guy. And star Evelyn Keys is a pulp noir adventuress to admire, with a roving eye of her own. 99 River Street Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1953 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Street Date June 21, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle, Jay Adler, Jack Lambert, Glenn Langan. Cinematography Franz Planer Film Editor Buddy Small Original Music Arthur Lange, Emil Newman Written by Robert Smith, George Zuckerman Produced by Edward Small Directed by Phil Karlson
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
99 River Street is a top noir title in all respects -- a great cast, a literally hard-hitting...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
99 River Street is a top noir title in all respects -- a great cast, a literally hard-hitting...
- 6/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
An exercise in dizzy disorientation, this Cornell Woolrich crazy-house noir pulls the rug out from under us at least three times. You want delirium, you got it -- the secret words for today are "Obsessive" and "Perverse." Innocent Robert Cummings is no match for sicko psychos Peter Lorre and Steve Cochran. The Chase Blu-ray Kino Classics 1946 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 86 min. / Street Date May 24, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Peter Lorre, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt, Don Wilson, Alexis Minotis, Nina Koschetz, Yolanda Lacca, James Westerfield, Shirley O'Hara. Cinematography Frank F. Planer Film Editor Edward Mann Original Music Michel Michelet Written by Philip Yordan from the book The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich Produced by Seymour Nebenzal Directed by Arthur D. Ripley
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
As Guy Maddin says on his (recommended) commentary, the public domain copies of this show were...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
As Guy Maddin says on his (recommended) commentary, the public domain copies of this show were...
- 5/7/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Where was Leonard Pinth Garnell when we needed him? Joseph Losey is often accused of pretension but in this case he may be guilty. Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell are escapees scrambling across a rocky terrain, pursued by a helicopter that seems satisfied to just harass them. Keeping the audience in the dark doesn't reap any dramatic or thematic benefit that I can see. Figures in a Landscape Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date January 12, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Roger Lloyd Pack, Pamela Brown. Cinematography Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky, Guy Tabary Film Editor Reginald Beck Art Direction Ted Tester Original Music Richard Rodney Bennett Written by Robert Shaw from the novel by Barry England Produced by John Kohn Directed by Joseph Losey
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Joseph Losey is a gold mine for film criticism but a real problem for simple film reviewing.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Joseph Losey is a gold mine for film criticism but a real problem for simple film reviewing.
- 1/16/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Robert Wise's taut noir suspenser about the Mafia takeover of a small city is like an underworld Invasion of the Body Snatchers. John Forsythe's newsman slowly realizes that gambling corruption has infiltrated the business district, city hall, and even his close associates; he's expected to become a crook too, or else. Great docudrama style aided by a special deep-focus lens; Estes Kefauver makes a personal appearance touting the crime-busting Washington committee that inspired the picture. The Captive City Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1952 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 91 min. Street Date January 5, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Marjorie Crossland, Victor Sutherland, Ray Teal, Martin Milner, Geraldine Hall, Hal K. Dawson, Paul Brinegar, Estes Kefauver, Victor Romito. Cinematography Lee Garmes Film Editor Robert Swink Original Music Jerome Moross Written by Alvin M. Josephy Jr., Karl Kamb Produced by Theron Warth Directed by Robert Wise
Reviewed...
Reviewed...
- 1/4/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
or, Savant picks The Most Impressive Discs of 2015
This is the actual view from Savant Central, looking due North.
What a year! I was able to take one very nice trip back East too see Washington D.C. for the first time, or at least as much as two days' walking in the hot sun and then cool rain would allow. Back home in Los Angeles, we've had a year of extreme drought -- my lawn is looking patriotically ratty -- and we're expecting something called El Niño, that's supposed to be just shy of Old-Testament build-me-an-ark intensity. We withstood heat waves like those in Day the Earth Caught Fire, and now we'll get the storms part. This has been a wild year for DVD Savant, which is still a little unsettled. DVDtalk has been very patient and generous, and so have Stuart Galbraith & Joe Dante; so far everything...
This is the actual view from Savant Central, looking due North.
What a year! I was able to take one very nice trip back East too see Washington D.C. for the first time, or at least as much as two days' walking in the hot sun and then cool rain would allow. Back home in Los Angeles, we've had a year of extreme drought -- my lawn is looking patriotically ratty -- and we're expecting something called El Niño, that's supposed to be just shy of Old-Testament build-me-an-ark intensity. We withstood heat waves like those in Day the Earth Caught Fire, and now we'll get the storms part. This has been a wild year for DVD Savant, which is still a little unsettled. DVDtalk has been very patient and generous, and so have Stuart Galbraith & Joe Dante; so far everything...
- 12/15/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
José Ferrar stars in his second dramatic feature as director, teamed with newcomer Gena Rowlands as a married working couple. Ferrar's executive assistant isn't on the list of those invited to meet the new corporate bosses, which everyone knows means he's a dead employee walking. Things are looking darkest just as his loving wife is bringing news of a baby on the way. The show builds up a terrific critique of anxiety in the Rat Race, but then... The High Cost of Loving DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1958 / B&W / 2:35 enhanced widescreen / 87 min. / Street Date July 16, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring José Ferrer, Gena Rowlands, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Bobby Troup, Philip Ober, Edward Platt, Charles Watts, Werner Klemperer, Malcolm Atterbury, Jeanne Baird, Nick Clooney, Abby Dalton, Richard Deacon, Nancy Kulp, Lucien Littlefield. Cinematography George J. Folsey Film Editor Ferris Webster Original Music Jeff Alexander Written by Rip Van Ronkel,...
- 10/27/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Prowler
Written by Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler
Directed by Joseph Losey
U.S.A., 1951
Susan Gilvray (Evelyn Keyes), alone at home as her husband hosts a late night radio show, undresses in the washroom, only to be shocked at the appearance of a peeping tom through the window. She quickly secures herself inside her house and calls the police, which is how officer Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) enters her life. He and partner Bud (John Maxwell) inspect the premise, but thankfully the culprit appears to have fled the scene to leave Susan, quite shaken by the experience, in peace. The encounter between her and Webb causes sparks to fly however. Webb is frustrated with his lot in life, resentful by his family background and embittered by his job. Susan is a beacon of light to which he immediately gravitates, seducing her in diabolically manipulative fashion. Clearly there is...
Written by Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler
Directed by Joseph Losey
U.S.A., 1951
Susan Gilvray (Evelyn Keyes), alone at home as her husband hosts a late night radio show, undresses in the washroom, only to be shocked at the appearance of a peeping tom through the window. She quickly secures herself inside her house and calls the police, which is how officer Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) enters her life. He and partner Bud (John Maxwell) inspect the premise, but thankfully the culprit appears to have fled the scene to leave Susan, quite shaken by the experience, in peace. The encounter between her and Webb causes sparks to fly however. Webb is frustrated with his lot in life, resentful by his family background and embittered by his job. Susan is a beacon of light to which he immediately gravitates, seducing her in diabolically manipulative fashion. Clearly there is...
- 1/30/2015
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
The Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced the details for their upcoming series "Red Hollywood and the Blacklist." Beginning Friday, August 15th, it will parallel the one-week exclusive theatrical run of Thom Andersen and Noel Burch’s revelatory documentary "Red Hollywood," which offers a unique perspective on Hollywood filmmaking from the 1930s to the 1950s, when "red” screenwriters and directors worked within the studio system to make films that challenged issues of class, war, race, and gender. The film series, chosen by Andersen, is a selection of movies by blacklist casualties. "There are many remarkable films by Hollywood blacklist victims that could not be excerpted in 'Red Hollywood,'" Anderson explained. "This series provides a rare opportunity to discover -- or revisit -- some of these gems projected on the big screen." Among those films are two from Joseph Losey ("The Prowler" and "Big Night"), as well as a pair from.
- 6/16/2014
- by Oliver MacMahon
- Indiewire
The Dark Side of Sanity! kicks off at Trailers from Hell, with screenwriter Larry Karazsewski introducing "Secret Ceremony," which he calls "nobody's favorite Joseph Losey film," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum and Mia Farrow. Losey is bettter known for deftly angst-ridden titles like 1951 noir "The Prowler" and 1963's "The Servant."This strange, dreamlike melodrama found little audience reception and is more famous today for the hatchet job Universal did on it to broadcast it on network tv. Elizabeth Taylor, playing a prostitute in the original, became a woman “who tried on wigs for a living”!
- 9/30/2013
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Peter Whitehead, via Occupy Cinema
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
"One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in support of Occupy Wall Street," writes J Hoberman in one of the last pieces he'll turn in at the Voice. "Covering 500 years of American history, this furious beatnik analysis makes a people's historian like Howard Zinn seem like a Chamber of Commerce booster, particularly as delivered amid [Jg] Thirlwell's industrial-strength rhapsodic noise drone, against the seething apocalypse of melting glaciers and crystallized lava that soon becomes an ongoing Rorschach test." See, too, David Phelps's essay. Seeking the Monkey King is "showing with several of Jacobs's short works (19th-century stereopticon slides treated as material for a cyclotron) and excerpts from his 3D footage of Zuccotti Park. Other films showing in the series are An Injury to One (2002), Travis Wilkerson's lucid,...
- 1/7/2012
- MUBI
I abhor sloppy reporting, and now I have been guilty of it. Somehow I managed to garble the facts in yesterday’s post about this week’s blogathon. No great harm has been done, but I would like to set the record straight. Funding to preserve Joseph Losey’s The Prowler was raised by the Film Noir Foundation, which will be the recipient of this year’s kitty. I was incorrect in stating that the considerable cost of restoring a full-length feature was raised through the grass-roots campaign last year. The 2010 blogathon did raise enough money for the National Film Preservation Foundation to…...
- 2/15/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I guess you could say my taste is eclectic, as I’m equally excited about a wide variety of DVDs that run the gamut from early-talkie musicals to the stark suggestiveness of Sam Fuller. Let’s start with The Prowler, Joseph Losey’s 1951 compelling film noir that grabs you with its opening image and never lets go. Van Heflin stars as a bad cop—literally—who seduces a vulnerable married woman, played by Evelyn Keyes, in spite of her better judgment. These are complex, multi-layered characters and not just film noir stereotypes. Well received in its time, it has been rediscovered in the past…...
- 2/3/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Let Me In" (2010)
Directed by Matt Reeves
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
"Never Let Me Go" (2010)
Directed by Mark Romanek
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Two of 2010's most underrated films that approach their respective genres from radically different perspectives than most, "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves' "Let Me In" and Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go" will finally have the opportunity to stand out on home video. In "Let Me In," Reeves applies some of his own biographical touchstones for this remake of Tomas Alfredson's horror film about the unlikely friendship between a vampire (Chloe Moretz) and a lonely young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Romanek's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's much-beloved sci-fi novel about a group of children raised apart from the rest of society for purposes that are unknown to them. (Alison Willmore's reviews for "Let Me In" and...
"Let Me In" (2010)
Directed by Matt Reeves
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
"Never Let Me Go" (2010)
Directed by Mark Romanek
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Two of 2010's most underrated films that approach their respective genres from radically different perspectives than most, "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves' "Let Me In" and Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go" will finally have the opportunity to stand out on home video. In "Let Me In," Reeves applies some of his own biographical touchstones for this remake of Tomas Alfredson's horror film about the unlikely friendship between a vampire (Chloe Moretz) and a lonely young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Romanek's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's much-beloved sci-fi novel about a group of children raised apart from the rest of society for purposes that are unknown to them. (Alison Willmore's reviews for "Let Me In" and...
- 1/30/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Cinema Retro received the following notice from the Alamo Ritz Theatre in Austin, Texas:
Cinema Club Presents Film Noir Expert Eddie Muller
Cinema Club is an ongoing series that presents an assortment of classic films with the added accompaniment of an audience discussion with a special guest expert at each screening. For two very special screenings in July we are proud to welcome author and film noir scholar Eddie Muller, whose books "Dark City: The Lost World Of Film Noir", "Dark City Dames" and "The Art Of Noir" have established him solidly at the top of his field. He even founded the Film Noir Foundation. Come find out more about this fascinating chapter of film history from the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried and which drawer the gun is in.
About The Prowler
"Originally appearing after Hollywood's noir wave had crested, The Prowler was largely dismissed...
- 7/9/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
My first conscious exposure to the films of Joseph Losey was with regard to the Film Noir Foundation's successful efforts to strike a restored print of Losey's 1951 eerie noir The Prowler. I say "conscious" because--though I had seen The Boy With Green Hair (1948), M (1951), The Servant (1963), and Boom! (1968)--I didn't connect the author to his work. And isn't that an oddity? That a director's auteurial legibility evades ready identification? That grievous oversight is currently being corrected by Joseph Losey: Pictures of Provocation, co-curated by Steve Seid and Peter Conheim, screening at the Pacific Film Archive through April 16 (when the series ends with The Prowler). As different as Losey's films are from each other, this series has intelligently culled out their connective tissue and common concerns.
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- 4/1/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Acquarello
Notes on Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2010
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Trousering the Ghost
The Forgotten: Vessel of Wrath
The Forgotten: Is My Face Red
The Forgotten: Lock-Up
Zach Campbell
Some Kind of Realism: Rossellini's War Trilogy
Andrew Chan
Sinophilic Cinephilia: Asia Society's "China’s Past Present, Future on Film"
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Cold Weather"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Glory to the Filmmaker" or: Kitano in Posters
Movie Poster of the Week: "Feeder" and the SXSW Poster Award Winners
Movie Poster of the Week: "Everyone Else"
David Hudson
Berlinale. Cons and Ex-Cons
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day: Unrequited Love #1
The Potential of the Mobile Film Festival: Rotterdam@Bam
Images of the Day: Joan Alone: Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang's "Secret Beyond the Door..."
At the Cinematheque: "The Prowler" (Joseph Losey, 1951)
Jean-Luc Godard's Homage to Eric Rohmer
Now in Theaters: "Shutter Island" (Martin Scorsese,...
Notes on Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2010
David Cairns
The Forgotten: Trousering the Ghost
The Forgotten: Vessel of Wrath
The Forgotten: Is My Face Red
The Forgotten: Lock-Up
Zach Campbell
Some Kind of Realism: Rossellini's War Trilogy
Andrew Chan
Sinophilic Cinephilia: Asia Society's "China’s Past Present, Future on Film"
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Cold Weather"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Glory to the Filmmaker" or: Kitano in Posters
Movie Poster of the Week: "Feeder" and the SXSW Poster Award Winners
Movie Poster of the Week: "Everyone Else"
David Hudson
Berlinale. Cons and Ex-Cons
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day: Unrequited Love #1
The Potential of the Mobile Film Festival: Rotterdam@Bam
Images of the Day: Joan Alone: Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang's "Secret Beyond the Door..."
At the Cinematheque: "The Prowler" (Joseph Losey, 1951)
Jean-Luc Godard's Homage to Eric Rohmer
Now in Theaters: "Shutter Island" (Martin Scorsese,...
- 4/1/2010
- MUBI
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Joeph Losey, one of those vanguards of cinema whose career was forever misshapen by the Huac era, abandoned Hollywood barely a decade after beginning his career there, leaving behind several crucial portraits of a Los Angeles baring the imprint of the Second World War. None are as lonely as 1951's The Prowler—currently being revived by the Film Forum in a restored print—a solemn duet of Angelinos played by Evelyn Keys and Van Heflin, each left hanging after the war, hanging in a moral vacuum of existential malaise behind the carefully maintained respectability of Southern California hacienda mansions and the post-War craze for the proper policing of the world's greatest country.
Loitering within suburban walls is Keys's housewife, sitting up late at night listening to her radio-announcer husband's voice purr from across the wide living room, her ears and his voice each a phantom marital check on the other,...
Joeph Losey, one of those vanguards of cinema whose career was forever misshapen by the Huac era, abandoned Hollywood barely a decade after beginning his career there, leaving behind several crucial portraits of a Los Angeles baring the imprint of the Second World War. None are as lonely as 1951's The Prowler—currently being revived by the Film Forum in a restored print—a solemn duet of Angelinos played by Evelyn Keys and Van Heflin, each left hanging after the war, hanging in a moral vacuum of existential malaise behind the carefully maintained respectability of Southern California hacienda mansions and the post-War craze for the proper policing of the world's greatest country.
Loitering within suburban walls is Keys's housewife, sitting up late at night listening to her radio-announcer husband's voice purr from across the wide living room, her ears and his voice each a phantom marital check on the other,...
- 3/11/2010
- MUBI
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Joeph Losey, one of those vanguards of cinema whose career was forever misshapen by the Huac era, abandoned Hollywood barely a decade after beginning his career there, leaving behind several crucial portraits of a Los Angeles baring the imprint of the Second World War. None are as lonely as 1951's The Prowler—currently being revived by the Film Forum in a restored print—a solemn duet of Angelinos played by Evelyn Keys and Van Heflin, each left hanging after the war, hanging in a moral vacuum of existential malaise behind the carefully maintained respectability of Southern California hacienda mansions and the post-War craze for the proper policing of the world's greatest country.
Loitering within suburban walls is Keys's housewife, sitting up late at night listening to her radio-announcer husband's voice purr from across the wide living room, her ears and his voice each a phantom marital check on the other,...
Joeph Losey, one of those vanguards of cinema whose career was forever misshapen by the Huac era, abandoned Hollywood barely a decade after beginning his career there, leaving behind several crucial portraits of a Los Angeles baring the imprint of the Second World War. None are as lonely as 1951's The Prowler—currently being revived by the Film Forum in a restored print—a solemn duet of Angelinos played by Evelyn Keys and Van Heflin, each left hanging after the war, hanging in a moral vacuum of existential malaise behind the carefully maintained respectability of Southern California hacienda mansions and the post-War craze for the proper policing of the world's greatest country.
Loitering within suburban walls is Keys's housewife, sitting up late at night listening to her radio-announcer husband's voice purr from across the wide living room, her ears and his voice each a phantom marital check on the other,...
- 3/11/2010
- MUBI
Repertory theaters on the coasts are truly offering a window onto the world this spring, with Jia Zhangke and Bong Joon-ho retrospectives, as well as New French Cinema in New York, "Freebie and the Bean," "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" and Jason Reitman's favorite films invade Los Angeles, and the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is offering a fond farewell to the video cassette. But consider this a hello to seeing classics, oddities and rarities on the big screen over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
Cities: [New York] [Los Angeles] [Austin] More Spring Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
Is there a more energetic way to start the spring than with a screening of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (Feb. 20, with editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in attendance)? Perhaps not, but it's only the start of an exciting spring season at the 92YTribeca Screening Room, which will present several special events over the next few months.
- 2/20/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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