Humphrey Bogart
From time to time these days, one meets young people—film students even—who can’t quite place Gary Cooper. Come May 13, he will have been dead for 51 years; and on May 7—the day I’m writing—he was born in 1901, up in Montana. Which seems appropriate for one of our great cowboys or Westerners, except that after being raised first on a cattle ranch he spent seven crucial years of his childhood in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, in England. READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classics: 'The Big Sleep' (September 23, 1946)
The BACKLOT: ‘Breathless’ at 50
Changes
Two in the Wave Lorber Films Looking for Eric IFC Films No movement in any nation’s film history has had a greater effect, at home and abroad, than the French New Wave. Beginning in the late 1950s and cresting through the 1960s, it not only brought forth new and invaluable talents: it altered in some degree the expectations of audiences. Much has naturally been written about the New Wave. Now here is a French documentary, brisk and fertile, called Two in the Wave. READ MORE >>
Secrets
The Eclipse Magnolia Pictures Handsome Harry Paladin Bluebeard Strand Releasing A candle is lighted in the dark. This is the opening shot of The Eclipse, hinting at mystery. The next shot reveals that the candle is a taper on a table in a large hotel restaurant. Thus in its first few seconds the film suggests that it will inhabit two spheres, the mysterious and the diurnal, and that the two will virtually overlap. READ MORE >>
Stanley Kauffmann on Films
Disgrace Paladin The Other Man Image Entertainment READ MORE >>
The Rescuer
A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust by David S. Wyman and Rafael Medoff (The New Press, 269 pp., $26.95) READ MORE >>
To Die For
“Everybody is kind of sitting around waiting for a slow speed chase and waiting to write, you know, this into a movie.”—A guest on “The Edge With Paula Zahn,” Fox News, May 15 READ MORE >>
One Nation Under a Groove
I. My dream was to become Frank Sinatra. I loved his phrasing, especially when he was very young and pure…. Now this is going to surprise you, but I also dug Dean Martin and especially Perry Como. — Marvin Gaye READ MORE >>
