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Rod Serling Saddles the Wind
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 26, 2023
John Cassavetes glares.The opening of notes of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans's title tune--a torch song whispered intimately by Julie London--lets you know that Saddle the Wind (1958) won't be a conventional Western. But if you start to doubt that notion, Rod Serling's credit as screenwrite read more
Whistle Down The Wind (1961)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 28, 2022
Whistle Down The Wind feels like it employs the “kitchen sink” aesthetic in step with British film of the day, bleak and tough around the corners with working-class folks coping with all kinds of toilsome drama. However, if the mantle of that zeitgeist was normally carried by the likes read more
Offbeat Blu-ray Review: The Window
Hitchcock Master Posted by Devon Powell on Sep 22, 2021
Distributor: Warner Brothers Release Date: September 21, 2021 Region: Region A Length: 01:13:27 Video: 1080P (MPEG-4, AVC) Main Audio: 2.0 English Mono DTS-HD Master Audio Subtitles: English SDH Ratio: 1.37:1 Notes: This is the film’s North American Blu-ray debut. “He lived in two worlds at read more
THE 2021 CLASSIC LITERATURE ON FILM BLOGATHON: The Wind in the Willow, 1949 and 1983
Caftan Woman Posted by on Apr 2, 2021
Paul Batters at Silver Screen Classics is our host for The 2021 Classic Literature On Film Blogathan on April 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Access the articles here. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) grew out of bedtime stories for the Scottish author's only son Al read more
Saddle The Wind (1958): In Memory of Richard Erdman
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 12, 2020
Julie London provides her airy voice to the title track and Elmer Bernstein gives his scoring talents for the rest of the picture. In these beginning moments, Saddle the Wind evokes the expanse of the majestic landscapes of the West like the best of its brethren. There is a sense we really are out o read more
GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) Temporarily Pulled From HBO Max To Allow For Proper Context–A History
Backlots Posted by Lara on Jun 11, 2020
When HBO Max announced that it would temporarily remove Gone With the Wind from its platform, in order to place a statement in front of it putting the film’s content into the proper context, it set off a firestorm of controversy online and in the media. Some decry the decision as censorship. read more
The Other Side of The Wind (2018): Resurrecting Orson Welles
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 30, 2020
With the name of Orson Welles comes any number of conflicting connotations not far removed from his greatest achievement: Citizen Kane. However, if we had to try and pinpoint an apt superlative it would fall somewhere in between a mythic and Brobdingnagian titan of cinema. He was a personality like read more
Review: The Woman in The Window (1944)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jun 5, 2019
The first time I ever saw The Woman in The Window it always struck me as odd. Here was the fellow who was known as a gangster through and through and yet he was playing a bookish professor buried in his work and obsessed about psychoanalytic theory. His idea for a fine time is conversing with his i read more
Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind Finally Sees the Light of Day
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 13, 2018
What would Orson Welles have thought of his meticulously crafted final flick The Other Side of the Wind making its debut on Netflix? That’s been on my mind ever since the streaming service announced that the long anticipated film would finally be making its debut on the platform, over forty ye read more
The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 2, 2018
The Other Side of the Wind opens with two very ominous notes. Well, two and a half. The first is a text card explaining the film’s history, but not much about its resurrection. For example (and here’s the half ominous note), was it director Welles’s idea to do multiple aspect ratios? It makes read more
Review: Written on the Wind (1956)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 19, 2018
Douglas Sirk’s films are always lovely to look at, almost to the point of making you sick. The panoramas swell with color. They’re too perfect. The sets are gaudy — the cars the same — to the point of almost being unsightly in their over the top artificiality. Try to find read more
Batman and Robin (1949, Spencer Gordon Bennet), Chapter 12: Robin Rides the Wind
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 12, 2018
The chapter title, Robin Rides the Wind, got me hoping Robin would jump out of a plane or something. Without a chute. Sad spoiler: he doesn’t. The chapter does clear one of the Wizard suspects, which would probably be more effective if the character–played by Michael Whalen–appeared more often. read more
DOUBLE BILL #4 All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Written on the Wind (1956)
The Old Hollywood Garden Posted by Carol Martinheira on Jul 14, 2017
DOUBLE BILL #4 All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Written on the Wind (1956)
On July 14, 2017 By CarolIn Uncategorized
Boy, was Douglas Sirk great! I’ve always admired how unapologetically soppy and melodramatic his films were. He was probably the most read more
ClassicFlix (Teen Scene) – Review #23: The Woman in the Window (1944)
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Jun 30, 2017
From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the establishing of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old version and read read more
The Wind in the Willows (1983, Mark Hall and Chris Taylor)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on May 27, 2017
The Wind in the Willows has an undeniable charm about it. Directors Hall and Taylor send the first act of the film focusing on lovely details. Wind is stop motion, with a lot of intricate “set” decoration. And they do occasionally utilize their control over performers and location to get some excel read more
Irish Film Studies: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Mar 31, 2017
The Wind that Shakes the Barley was an interesting one for me to see, as it is the first Ken Loach’s film I was watching. His name was one of the rare Irish movie director names that rang a bell for me. Obviously, he is pretty important in the history of Irish cinema. I was interested to see w read more
Ticklish Business: Episode #19 – Gone With the Wind (1939)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Mar 30, 2017
After several weeks of hype pop culture writer Terence Johnson joins me to talk about Rhett and Scarlett (and how much we hate Leslie Howard as Ashley) in 1939’s Gone With the Wind. Please consider leaving the podcast a rating and review on iTunes, or visit my Patreon page to find out more abo read more
Gone with the Wind: Missed Opportunity
Finding Franchot: Exploring the Life and Career of Franchot Tone Posted by Franchot Tone Fan on Jan 5, 2017
Like Old Acquaintance, here's another one of those "what might've been" posts for you. Did you know that Franchot was considered for the two male lead roles in Gone With the Wind?
Clark, Joan, Leslie, and Franchot in one photo. Source: https://inafferrabileleslie.wordpress.com
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o/t: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 22, 2016
Originally titled Kaze no Tani no Naushika vt Nausicaä; cut vt Warriors of the Wind Japan / 117 minutes / color / Topcraft, Toei Dir & Scr: Hayao Miyazaki Pr: Isao Takahata Story: Kaze no Tani no Naushika (1982 onward manga) by Hayao Miyazaki Cine: Yasuhiro Shimizu, Kôji Shiragami, Yukitomo Shu read more
o/t: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 11, 2016
This was the third and last of the three essays I wrote for the epic, ongoing Science Fiction Movies Countdown being staged at Wonders in the Dark. (The countdown, running from #100 to #1, today reached #48, with a splendid essay by Sam Juliano on Them! (1954), a movie that I’ve somehow never read more