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, May 8 09:30 p.m. PST Duel in the Sun. King Vidor's whacked-out western is, despite its bouts of
Birds of Prey (1968), directed by Jose Giovanni. The more movies I see starring Lino Ventura the more I think he may be my favorite movie actor. With a face like a Claw Hammer and the demeanor of a Mastiff (though he can be tender and funny, too), he plays
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. Saturday, May 2 10:00 p.m. PST Inside Moves. Richard Donner was coming off the massive success of Superman (1978) and used the
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 24 06:15 a.m. PST A Damsel in Distress. George Stevens and Fred Astaire made a nice pair. I know almost
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's
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's
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
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