MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” offered a closing argument against Roy Moore on Monday when longtime show regular Eddie Glaude Jr. called the Alabama Senate candidate a “bigot” and a pedophile.” “I grew up in Moss Point, Mississippi, we’ve seen this kind of American madness before. We know what this is. We know exactly what it is. We know exactly who Roy Moore is. We’ve seen it. That person has been a part of my landscape since I was a young man,” said Glaude. “He’s a bigot and he’s a bigot who’s running for U.S.
- 12/11/2017
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
It’s 1930s America as seen in the movies, through music, and the evasions of newsreels. Franklin Delano Roosevelt preaches prosperity while James Cagney slugs out the decade as a smart-tongued everyman — in a dozen different roles. Director Philippe Mora investigates what was then a new kind of revisionist info-tainment formula: applying old film footage to new purposes.
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
DVD
The Sprocket Vault
1975 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99 (also available in Blu-ray)
Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas
Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow
Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam
Directed by Philippe Mora
Years before he was briefly sidetracked into sequels for The Howling, Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker. Backed by producers Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam, his 1974 documentary Swastika pulled a controversial switch on the usual historical fare about...
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
DVD
The Sprocket Vault
1975 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99 (also available in Blu-ray)
Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas
Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow
Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam
Directed by Philippe Mora
Years before he was briefly sidetracked into sequels for The Howling, Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker. Backed by producers Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam, his 1974 documentary Swastika pulled a controversial switch on the usual historical fare about...
- 6/19/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Huppert’s warm, wry performance as an academic facing a crisis at home powers Mia Hansen-Løve’s intimate, intellectual film
Is there a more commanding screen presence than Isabelle Huppert? From the spiralling American madness of Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate to the diverse demands of Claire Denis’s African-set colonial parable White Material and Brillante Mendoza’s Philippines hostage drama Captive, Huppert has proved ready to rise to any challenge. Claude Chabrol famously cast her as a teenage murderer in 1978’s Violette Nozière and a covert poisoner in 2000’s Merci pour le chocolat, while Chris Honoré called upon her to tackle the taboo subject of incest in Ma mère. Most famously, in Michael Haneke’s unflinching The Piano Teacher, she took cinemagoers to the very edge of a masochistic abyss, with harrowing results.
Hansen-Løve serves up unapologetic discussions of Rousseau, radicalism and revolution
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Is there a more commanding screen presence than Isabelle Huppert? From the spiralling American madness of Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate to the diverse demands of Claire Denis’s African-set colonial parable White Material and Brillante Mendoza’s Philippines hostage drama Captive, Huppert has proved ready to rise to any challenge. Claude Chabrol famously cast her as a teenage murderer in 1978’s Violette Nozière and a covert poisoner in 2000’s Merci pour le chocolat, while Chris Honoré called upon her to tackle the taboo subject of incest in Ma mère. Most famously, in Michael Haneke’s unflinching The Piano Teacher, she took cinemagoers to the very edge of a masochistic abyss, with harrowing results.
Hansen-Løve serves up unapologetic discussions of Rousseau, radicalism and revolution
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- 9/4/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
The Kentucky actor has played cracked saints, remorseless mafiosi and tragic monsters. Now he’s bringing his brand of ‘all-American madness’ to sci-fi thriller Midnight Special
At the end of the day, the walls begin closing in. The hotel suite shrinks, the armchair pinches and the harried performer has been at rest for too long. Round and round the room he prowls, like an animal exploring the limits of its cage, looping at intervals behind the couch where I’m sat. He’s raking his hair. He’s scratching his beard. It turns out that there’s one prospect more unnerving than having Michael Shannon in your field of vision. It’s having him behind you, conceivably preparing to pounce.
Related: Michael Shannon: five best moments
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At the end of the day, the walls begin closing in. The hotel suite shrinks, the armchair pinches and the harried performer has been at rest for too long. Round and round the room he prowls, like an animal exploring the limits of its cage, looping at intervals behind the couch where I’m sat. He’s raking his hair. He’s scratching his beard. It turns out that there’s one prospect more unnerving than having Michael Shannon in your field of vision. It’s having him behind you, conceivably preparing to pounce.
Related: Michael Shannon: five best moments
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- 4/7/2016
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Pat O'Brien movies on TCM: 'The Front Page,' 'Oil for the Lamps of China' Remember Pat O'Brien? In case you don't, you're not alone despite the fact that O'Brien was featured – in both large and small roles – in about 100 films, from the dawn of the sound era to 1981. That in addition to nearly 50 television appearances, from the early '50s to the early '80s. Never a top star or a critics' favorite, O'Brien was nevertheless one of the busiest Hollywood leading men – and second leads – of the 1930s. In that decade alone, mostly at Warner Bros., he was seen in nearly 60 films, from Bs (Hell's House, The Final Edition) to classics (American Madness, Angels with Dirty Faces). Turner Classic Movies is showing nine of those today, Nov. 11, '15, in honor of what would have been the Milwaukee-born O'Brien's 116th birthday. Pat O'Brien and James Cagney Spencer Tracy had Katharine Hepburn.
- 11/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Constance Cummings in 'Night After Night.' Constance Cummings: Working with Frank Capra and Mae West (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Actress Went from Harold Lloyd to Eugene O'Neill.”) Back at Columbia, Harry Cohn didn't do a very good job at making Constance Cummings feel important. By the end of 1932, Columbia and its sweet ingenue found themselves in court, fighting bitterly over stipulations in her contract. According to the actress and lawyer's daughter, Columbia had failed to notify her that they were picking up her option. Therefore, she was a free agent, able to offer her services wherever she pleased. Harry Cohn felt otherwise, claiming that his contract player had waived such a notice. The battle would spill over into 1933. On the positive side, in addition to Movie Crazy 1932 provided Cummings with three other notable Hollywood movies: Washington Merry-Go-Round, American Madness, and Night After Night. 'Washington Merry-Go-Round...
- 11/5/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
How would you program this year's newest, most interesting films into double features with movies of the past you saw in 2014?
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
Looking back over the year at what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2014—in theatres or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2014 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were given the option to write some text explaining their 2014 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch...
- 1/5/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
“It’s another piece of American madness,” Sam Shepard said today of Discovery‘s first scripted project, Klondike. “You know, another chunk of insanity that we carry around with us, regardless of whether it’s involved in technology or involved in trapping beavers.” In December, Discovery announced its miniseries about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1895, co-produced by Scott Free Television, eOne and Nomadic Pictures and based on Canadian journalist Charlotte Gray’s novel Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich In The Klondike. The script, written by Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring, tells the story of six strangers and their collective fight for survival and wealth in a small frontier town in the remote Klondike. Chris Cooper, cast in February as Father Judge — who has come to Klondike to atone for his violent past on a mission to save souls — exited in March after suffering a minor heart attack. Shepard replaced him.
- 1/9/2014
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
There was plenty of discussion across the movie blogosphere following last week's announcement that Vertigo had dethroned Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time according to Sight & Sound's decennial poll. In addition to revealing the top 50 as determined by critics, they also provided a top 10 based on a separate poll for directors only. In the print version of the magazine, they have taken it a step further by reprinting some of the individual top 10 lists from the filmmakers who participated, and we now have some of them here for your perusal. Among them, we have lists from legends like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino, but there are also some unexpected newcomers who took part including Richard Ayoade (Submarine), Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene). Some of these lists aren't all that surprising (both Quentin Tarantino...
- 8/6/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Silent All Quiet On The Western Front: TCM's Library of Congress Tribute [Photo: Kay Francis, Leslie Howard in British Agent.] Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 8:00 Pm The Constant Nymph (1943). A composer finds inspiration in his wife's romantic cousin. Dir: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith. Bw-112 mins. 10:00 Pm Baby Face (1933). A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire. Dir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook. Bw-76 mins. 11:30 Pm Two Heads On A Pillow (1934). Once-married attorneys face off during a heated divorce case. Dir: William Nigh. Cast: Neil Hamilton, Miriam Jordan, Henry Armetta. Bw-68 mins. 12:45 Am All Quiet On The Western Front (1930). Young German soldiers try to adjust to the horrors of World War I. Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray. Bw-134 mins. 3:15 Am : Will Rogers Winging Around Europe (1927). Bw-0 mins. 3:30 Am...
- 9/29/2011
- Alt Film Guide
Frank Capra’s American Madness, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, Terrence Malick’s Badlands, and Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de torchon are among the upcoming classics to be screened at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va. Starring Walter Huston (father of John Huston, grandfather of Anjelica Huston), American Madness‘ theme remains as relevant today as it was nearly eight decades ago: banks’ loan practices and the money supply. Raging Bull isn’t one of my favorite Scorsese efforts, but many consider it the director’s masterpiece and one of the seminal works of the 1980s. Tavernier’s Coup de torchon, for its part, was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1981. Badlands, though hardly a blockbuster, is one [...]...
- 4/21/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
This hard-hitting documentary about the plight of the Angola 3 exposes the appalling conditions in American prisons, writes Xan Brooks
The Angola 3 are a trio of onetime Black Panthers who have spent the bulk of their life in solitary confinement, deep within the bowels of Louisiana's state penitentiary, aka the Farm. Now along comes Vadim Jean's crusading polemic, lobbying for the release of the two who remain behind bars and lifting the lid on all manner of institutionalised American madness. The judge is a racist and the chief eyewitness is legally blind, and out in the prison yard the convicts are thrown to the bulls for the entertainment of a paying public. Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line was sharper, tougher, more in command of its brief. But this, in its way, is just as horrific.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryCriminal justiceXan Brooks
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of...
The Angola 3 are a trio of onetime Black Panthers who have spent the bulk of their life in solitary confinement, deep within the bowels of Louisiana's state penitentiary, aka the Farm. Now along comes Vadim Jean's crusading polemic, lobbying for the release of the two who remain behind bars and lifting the lid on all manner of institutionalised American madness. The judge is a racist and the chief eyewitness is legally blind, and out in the prison yard the convicts are thrown to the bulls for the entertainment of a paying public. Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line was sharper, tougher, more in command of its brief. But this, in its way, is just as horrific.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryCriminal justiceXan Brooks
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of...
- 3/25/2010
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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