A Farewell to Two Kings
The Grim Reaper was a bigger son of a bitch than usual today. We lost Robert Duvall and the great Documentary film maker and giant human being Frederick Wiseman.
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Overture
Remember when at the beginning of certain prestige pictures, usually big budgeted epics, they used to start the film with an overture, a bespoke classical piece set over illustrations representing the film? Something borrowed from symphonic music, as a way of classing up the joint. Presumably a way of providing
TCM Look-Ahead - April 17
A weekly feature here on Big Heads that looks forward to the week ahead on the mighty Turner Classic Movies, for your viewing and recording pleasure. Friday, April 17 08:00 p.m. PST Targets. Probably the greatest artistic achievement of the Roger Corman production method, leveraging up and coming
Directorial Chronology - 1975
In The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929 - 1968, Andrew Sarris provided an extremely useful and entertaining appendix he called "Directorial Chronology." It was basically a best American film of the year list with a highly auteurist, idiosyncratic bent. So you would see things like Man'
TCM Look-Ahead - April 10
A weekly feature here on Big Heads that looks forward to the week ahead on the mighty Turner Classic Movies, for your viewing and recording pleasure. Friday, April 10 08:00 p.m. PST The Masque of Red Death. From that strange era when Roger Corman and company cheaply adapted