Tag: Nicholas Ray

Festivals-a-Go-Go: Feb. 3-5 + R.I.P. The Cinesphere?

February 3, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Festivals-a-Go-Go: Feb. 3-5 + R.I.P. The Cinesphere?

Quick recap of this weekend’s interesting (to me) screenings, plus NASA’s video of the Dark Side of the Moon, and the Ontario Government’s decision to shut down most of Ontario Place forthwith, henceforce, herewith, and now, with the future of world’s first permanent IMAX theatre – the Cinesphere – up in the air.

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Festivals-a-Go-Go: Nov. 24 – Dec.1, 2011

November 25, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Festivals-a-Go-Go: Nov. 24 – Dec.1, 2011

Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, Doc Soup returns to the Bloor Dec. 7, Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre, and where you can still get pretty Guillermo del Toro “Fright Night” posters.

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Samuel Bronston, Part I

November 24, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Samuel Bronston, Part I

Editorial blather and film review of Samuel Bronston’s epic production of 55 Days at Peking (1963), recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, plus a review of La-La Land’s new 2-CD soundtrack album featuring Dimitri Tiomkin’s complete Boom-De-Boom score.

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Festivals-a-Go-Go!

November 17, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Festivals-a-Go-Go!

This weekend’s tally & heads-up of local film festivals & retros in Tranna, plus some editorial blather.

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Nicholas Ray: Part II

November 3, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Nicholas Ray: Part II

Film reviews of Susan Ray’s documentary Don’t Expect Too Much (2011), which recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and David Helpern’s rarely seen Nicholas Ray doc I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1975), plus more epic Editorial Blather.

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Nicholas Ray: Part I

October 31, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Nicholas Ray: Part I

Film review of Nicholas Ray’s long unfinished and rarely seen experimental film, We Can’t Go Home Again (1976), recently restored and screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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Happy Mittel-Halloween

October 30, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Happy Mittel-Halloween

Idle Sunday news bits about “caring sessions” in two Calgary grade schools in place of Halloween, Mario Bava, spooky movies at NYC’s Lincoln Center and Film Forum, Nicholas Ray at the Lightbox, and a screening of Israel’s first horror film Rabies / Kalevet (2010) at Innis Hall tonight.

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, Part II

October 20, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Part II

In Part II, a film review of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Wages of Fear, The / Le salaire de la peur (1953), plus info on upcoming Nicholas Ray films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, with rare audience introductions by the director’s widow, Susan Ray.

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