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. A spirited curation for Spooky Season! Friday, October 30 11:00 a.m. PST White Zombie (1932) One of those whats-itz that if
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, October 16 It is a Todd Browning afternoon and eve on TCM, all of them worth watching, but one utterly indispensable.... 06:45
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, October 9 02:45 p.m. PDT A Lion is in the Streets (1953) This rollicking vehicle for the charisma-machine Jimmy Cagney
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, October 2 02:15 p.m. PDT Look Back in Anger (1959) The first of the British Kitchen Sink, Angry Young Man films
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, September 25 A day that appears to be dedicated to psychoanalysis and/or psychosis, then shifts rather imperceptibly into a series of films
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. The column returns and so does TCM, with a marvelous week of programming after stumbling through Summer Under the Stars. Friday, September 11 05:
I use the term "Underrated Auteur" frequently on the TCM Look-Ahead column. These are the less ballyhooed names from Hollywood history who nevertheless can rightly be classified as auteurs, with long, generally successful careers within the restrictions of the Hollywood system, yet managed to make distinct, personal
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's
Admittedly late, due to travel and procrastination, but some good ones in August (and 2 or 3 masterpieces at that). A Dandy in Aspic (1968), directed by Anthony Mann I have been seeking this out in my quest for Anthony Mann completion (it was his last film). Finally found a
Today marked the last I could visit any of the cinemas included on The Big List. I simply could not make the logistics work for others I hoped to frequent, and London just has so much to do. Today was for the beautiful and made-for-me Garden Cinema, in
Even for non-cinephiles the BFI South Bank is fabulous, with its brutalist architecture and 3 bars, including one on the balcony with one of the best views in London. For cinephiles? Forget about it. Featuring a library with every book one can imagine on film and television (including many,
If you are disconcerted by the old-timey look of the marquis at the Prince Charles Cinema, rest assured that is intentional. Around since 1962, the embrace their heritage while at the same time never failing to upgrade what matters – seating and tech. They are able to screeen films in