Meet Rita Tushingham, the cutest comic (and dramatic) actress of swinging London. This '60s masterpiece applies director Richard Lester's talent for comedy to a new kind of quirky, youthful sex farce. Shy boy Michael Crawford takes lessons on how to dominate women from Ray Brooks, when all he has to do to win cute Rita Tushingham is be himself. With a glorious music score by John Barry. The style is everything; the movie was extremely influential. The Knack... and how to get it Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1965 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 84 min. / Street Date January 12, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, Jane Birkin, Jacqueline Bisset, Charlotte Rampling. Cinematography David Watkin Production Designer Assheton Gorton Film Editor Antony Gibbs Original Music John Barry Written by Charles Wood from the play by Ann Jellicoe Produced by Oscar Lewenstein Directed by Richard Lester
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- 12/22/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
He was a drunk, on-screen and off, and starred in the most violent films of his age. But, first and foremost, he was a fantastic actor
This week's re-release of John Boorman's magnificent 1967 thriller Point Blank is all the evidence we really need of Lee Marvin's inextinguishable greatness as a movie icon. But since I've written elsewhere about Point Blank this week, let's imagine it never existed, and recall all the other reasons to love Lee.
Because for a couple of decades from the 50s to the 70s, whenever people referred to a movie as the most violent ever made, the chances were pretty good that Lee Marvin would be close to, if not the actual cause of, the very worst of the mayhem. Prime example: throwing a pot of scalding coffee in Gloria Grahame's face in Fritz Lang's potent big city crime thriller The Big Heat.
This week's re-release of John Boorman's magnificent 1967 thriller Point Blank is all the evidence we really need of Lee Marvin's inextinguishable greatness as a movie icon. But since I've written elsewhere about Point Blank this week, let's imagine it never existed, and recall all the other reasons to love Lee.
Because for a couple of decades from the 50s to the 70s, whenever people referred to a movie as the most violent ever made, the chances were pretty good that Lee Marvin would be close to, if not the actual cause of, the very worst of the mayhem. Prime example: throwing a pot of scalding coffee in Gloria Grahame's face in Fritz Lang's potent big city crime thriller The Big Heat.
- 3/25/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The Rolling Stones are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, so naturally, goodies are coming out of the vaults. The latest is the legendary but never-before-released documentary "The Rolling Stones – Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965." Produced by Stones’ manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham, he enlisted director Peter Whitehead ("The Fall," "Tonite Let's All Make Love in London") to travel with the group and film before they broke big and just as “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” began to rocket the group to the pinnacle of the U.S. and U.K. charts. The doc will be making its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this weekend (Andrew Loog Oldham himself will be in attendance). Mick Gochanour and Robin Klein, the directors behind "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus," created a new version of the doc by painstakingly restoring over 90,000 frames of optical screen...
- 9/27/2012
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
The ingenious poster for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which kicked off this Wednesday, could not be more up my alley: a poster made from movie posters. Designed by [correction] Leo Burnett and Village Green, it was created by actually printing up posters, pasting them on a wall and then tearing them to conjure up the London skyline. The posters are all British quads, though not all for British films. There are local favorites My Beautiful Laundrette and This is England, and not one but two for The Long Good Friday, but there’s also Jamon Jamon and Nine Queens and Lost in Translation. The montage features three of Peter Strausfeld’s superb woodcut posters for the Academy Cinema (for Kanal, The Crime of Monsieur Lang, and Tonite Let's All Make Love in London) and I’m happy to see two Tarkovsky posters in there. In addition to the...
- 10/18/2010
- MUBI
Brighton On Screen
With the Brighton Rock remake on its way, the Duke Of York's cinema is getting in early with a season of films made in, or with links to, the area. An obvious choice is Quadrophenia, but the more curious should check out odder fare, like The Flesh And Blood Show, directed by former Doy projectionist Peter Walker, the dour thriller Jigsaw and John Mackenzie's Made, a social drama featuring folkie Roy Harper. The centrepiece is Brighton Rock Unseen, a tribute to Graham Greene's original novel and the iconic 1947 movie it spawned.
Duke Of York's, Sun to 29 Aug; picturehouses.co.uk
Chichester Film Festival
Opening with Sylvain Chomet's lovely, Jacques Tati-inspired animation The Illusionist, the 19th Chichester Film Festival is bent on bringing magic of all kinds to the screen. Aside from previews of upcoming Us, European, Asian and British flicks – including...
With the Brighton Rock remake on its way, the Duke Of York's cinema is getting in early with a season of films made in, or with links to, the area. An obvious choice is Quadrophenia, but the more curious should check out odder fare, like The Flesh And Blood Show, directed by former Doy projectionist Peter Walker, the dour thriller Jigsaw and John Mackenzie's Made, a social drama featuring folkie Roy Harper. The centrepiece is Brighton Rock Unseen, a tribute to Graham Greene's original novel and the iconic 1947 movie it spawned.
Duke Of York's, Sun to 29 Aug; picturehouses.co.uk
Chichester Film Festival
Opening with Sylvain Chomet's lovely, Jacques Tati-inspired animation The Illusionist, the 19th Chichester Film Festival is bent on bringing magic of all kinds to the screen. Aside from previews of upcoming Us, European, Asian and British flicks – including...
- 8/13/2010
- by Damon Wise
- The Guardian - Film News
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