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
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
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'
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
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'
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, 04/03 TCM featuring the films directed by Roger Corman today, including... 09:00 p.m. PST Bucket of Blood. Kooky, way out
Nothing Sacred (1937) directed by William Wellman I am a Wild Bill Wellman super-fan, but somehow for some reason have avoided this over the years. I am glad I waited for this beautiful MOMA restoration of the original Technicolor elements of the film (in 1937 color was still very rare)
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'
Sunday, 03/29 04:00 a.m. PST Petulia. Richard Lester's "Pepsi Generation" masterpiece is probably still a bit undervalued. All of Lester's instincts and New Wave influences (particularly Resnais and his elliptical cutting), exercised in the Beatles films, find fruition here. Julie Christie
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'
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'
Back to regular programming on TCM. Whew. And a great week with some rarities coming up! Friday, 03/20 10:15 p.m. PST Knife in the Water. Roman Polanski's first Polish feature film, the one that got him the attention of Hollywood. Taut, economic, crispy black and