tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57399552024-03-26T05:00:33.619-07:00Angelman's PlaceAn avid cinéaste,
time-tripping through
the fourth dimension,
in search of beauty, truth
and timeless escapist
entertainmentangelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-78332141916685822812023-04-28T09:49:00.017-07:002023-04-28T14:20:58.218-07:00It’s Not Easy Being Green According to Soylent Green (1973), the future has already come and gone—the film is set in the year 2022, and it is already far too late to save the planet. Soylent Green tackles the issue of climate change long before the issue had become a universal concern—the very first climate summit in Stockholm occurred in 1972, the year this movie was filmed.Its famous opening montage is a frantic angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-86167105896528231892022-12-06T15:56:00.042-08:002022-12-09T04:28:56.733-08:00Deconstructing Daisy CloverHollywood loves making films about Hollywood; but very rarely do they do it well.What can I say about this film I have seen at least a dozen times (and own a copy of in my DVD collection) but really, really don’t like? I guess I would file this one under ‘Bad Movies I Love,’ or more accurately, ‘Bad Movies Starring Actors I Love.’Inside Daisy Clover (1965) features some of my all-time angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-68158069744395345652022-10-28T06:00:00.027-07:002022-11-16T16:23:22.550-08:00All Hallows in Harvest HomeMake thee the corn. It’s Harvest Time.The Dark Secret of Harvest Home is one of my Halloween horror guilty pleasures. This 1978 NBC miniseries directed by Leo Penn is intriguingly themed, intricately plotted and suspenseful, and surprisingly well-acted by a cast of veteran TV actors and one legendary star, as it hurtles to a startling conclusion worthy of The Wicker Man and the more recent angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-44179440280103991392021-12-16T15:37:00.003-08:002021-12-18T06:30:04.508-08:00The Buzz About FuzzAs director Edgar Wright’s follow-up to his dead-on horror satire Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz (2007) is an even better, funnier and more richly multilayered movie, weaving multiple genres and homages to previous classics into one complex, rollicking, fast-paced and always entertaining film.Our hero is the uptight, by-the-book Police Sargent Nicholas Angel—perfectly portrayed by an adorably angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-78635103507955984282021-10-21T15:53:00.004-07:002021-10-24T15:10:44.219-07:00 Joan Fontaine: An Elegant Scream QueenI love when actresses past a certain age are able to transition from leading ladies into character roles—that is truly a test of talent, tenacity and charisma. Some of the films they do may not be classics, but that makes it even more fun. They usually work even harder to entertain us than in their film heydays.Joan Fontaine’s last big screen role was in a picture that she produced with Hammer angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-80212832154529101642021-05-19T08:15:00.008-07:002021-05-19T16:40:16.501-07:00The Devil Is In The DetailsBased on the novel by Dennis Wheatley (The Devil Rides Out), the film version of To The Devil A Daughter (1976) bears little resemblance to its source material. It’s little more than a hodgepodge of supernatural claptrap, further hampered by a jumbled storyline, but it is entertaining nonetheless to die-hard classic horror fans like me. Here’s a thumbnail of the plot: An occult angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-51147082170728237372021-03-06T06:30:00.009-08:002022-04-01T13:18:09.354-07:00The Backstory to 'Broads'These Old Broads is a 2001 TV movie written by Carrie Fisher (with Elaine Pope) and starring Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins and Elizabeth Taylor. In it, Fisher set out to pen a campy romp that gay audiences would love, a valentine to lovers of Old Hollywood and the legendary ladies who twinkled in its firmanent. The premise is simple: A trio of has-been actresses who can’t angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-66745703494709810332021-01-27T08:20:00.013-08:002021-01-27T13:34:17.335-08:00Selznick's Unconquerable FortressA world at war. An uncertain future, the loss of loved ones and the need to draw together for strength, comfort and joy. These are among the themes of David O. Selznick’s Since You Went Away (1944).The effects of WW II on the collective psyche were not unlike the psychological impacts of our currently raging pandemic, an event that has beckoned us back to the cozy pleasures of hearth and home, a angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-3803299054465441092020-06-10T04:35:00.000-07:002020-06-11T15:43:13.770-07:00Worst Case Scenario
Imagine, if you can, a worldwide crisis that touches the lives of everyone on the planet, a time when “we will all entertain our deepest fears and concerns.” Sound familiar? Before the global pandemic of 2020, we needed to suspend our disbelief and use our imaginations to feel the Deep Impact (1998) of this prescient and intelligently produced disaster film. Now, a much smaller leap of faith angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-18652607014913716832020-04-25T06:46:00.000-07:002020-05-08T17:36:06.418-07:00Coming Out with Maurice
Boy meets boy in a world where their kind of love was an impossibility. This is E.M. Forster’s Maurice (1987).
Having already produced a critically acclaimed film version of Forster’s A Room with a View in 1985, producer Ismael Merchant and director James Ivory took the gamble of mounting Forster’s groundbreaking and explicitly homosexual love story with honesty and heart, in exquisite periodangelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-67043449551829884082020-03-11T04:39:00.002-07:002020-03-11T15:03:08.386-07:00An Amazing Filmic Journey
One of the most iconic rock bands of all time steps off the concert stage and onto the silver screen in one of the wildest film trips in cinema history. In Tommy (1975) The Who (guitarist and composer Pete Townshend, lead singer Roger Daltrey, drummer Keith Moon and bass player John Entwistle) bring their 1969 “rock opera” to life with the help of avant garde film director Ken Russell and angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-26990201971503101772020-01-10T15:44:00.000-08:002020-04-25T07:11:58.261-07:00An Ode To Urban Paranoia
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I’m usually not a huge fan of remakes, but Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) is a notable exception—I find it even more engrossing and entertaining angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-48545406302253069352019-11-28T09:22:00.001-08:002019-11-29T05:46:21.597-08:00Moore and Moore Tears
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’Tis the season to be bright and merry and joyful—or to fake it till you make it. That’s how many feel about the hustle and bustle and forced angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-21019560492765607122019-11-01T12:12:00.002-07:002019-11-03T06:19:46.818-08:00Another Comeback for Judy—and Renée
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In reviewing Judy Garland’s 1967 Palace concert engagement, Vincent Canby called her a “sequin-sprinkled female Lazarus,” referring to the mercurial angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-48456656938945098882019-10-01T10:18:00.000-07:002019-11-01T13:33:34.685-07:00A Dramatic Rendering of A Remarkable Diary
Holocaust survivor Otto Frank said, “There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.” Despite the efforts of others to dehumanize fellow human beings and rob them of their lives and dignity, the spirit of freedom persists, through art, through imagination, through self-expression.
The story of Anne Frank is now legendary. As Hitler’s armies marched into the angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-52040010794263393602019-06-21T09:52:00.000-07:002019-11-01T13:33:48.851-07:00A Very Gay Aussie Adventure
Now that homosexuality, gender fluidity and the art of drag are ubiquitous in mainstream entertainment and popular culture—witness the success of TV phenomena from RuPaul’s Drag Race to Pose— it’s hard to believe that just a short time ago, you could only find queer stories in arthouse indie films and maybe the shelves of the more adventurous Blockbuster franchises.
The Adventures of angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-28783824705111001422019-01-25T04:21:00.002-08:002019-02-15T03:09:46.266-08:00The Force is Still With Us
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I was 11 years old when the original Star Wars came out in 1977, and I found myself going angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-14448119946827229082018-12-03T06:50:00.002-08:002018-12-06T11:49:22.737-08:00Who's Afraid of Liz and Dick?
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They’re movie legends who have appeared in angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-89797463384954988222018-10-16T05:06:00.000-07:002018-10-18T04:00:27.175-07:00Palling Around with Rita, Frank and Kim
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Faithful translations of Broadway musicals to film are rare—and angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-14399088222217004652018-09-22T10:41:00.000-07:002018-09-22T13:15:08.455-07:00Welcome to 28 Barbary Lane
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Give Quiggy and me any chance, we'll take it. Leave us any rule, we'll break—er, bend— it...Welcome to the Gender Bending the Rules Blogathon, hosted by The Midnite Drive-In and yours truly.
Hopefully this array of films will help our readers and fellow movie lovers feel free to express both the masculine and feminine aspects of their natures, no matter what gender or sexual orientation they angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-27327708165765888862018-09-20T08:31:00.000-07:002018-09-21T07:07:49.421-07:00Let's Hear It for the Boy
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Because I “came of age” in the 1980s, the teen sex comedy, which arguably reached its zenith during this era, is dear toangelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-37222097232466476352018-08-20T10:16:00.001-07:002018-08-26T06:25:21.123-07:00The Lovely Lee Grant Blogathon Is On!
Last dance, last chance for Lee! Join us in celebrating this great lady of the silver screen, Oscar-winning actress and director Lee Grant, August 20–23, 2018. Read about Miss Grant's greatest performances in film and television and applaud her 60+ year as one of our most treasured actors and filmmakers. I'm delighted to cohost the event with the beautiful and amazing Gill of angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-1985608678965443142018-08-19T04:39:00.001-07:002019-01-26T05:45:51.213-08:00Wash This Man Right Outta Your Hair
With a screenplay co-written by Robert Towne (Chinatown) and star/producer Warren Beatty, direction by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude), production design by Richard Sylbert (Rosemary’s Baby), original music by Paul Simon and featuring a glittering cast of Hollywood acting heavyweights, Shampoo is a satiric sex farce with an impressive cinematic pedigree.
Made in 1975, just months after the angelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739955.post-35592785147042104202018-07-27T08:47:00.000-07:002018-07-28T04:57:49.691-07:00Steel Yourself for an ’80s Guilty Pleasure
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When I first saw this film version of one of my favorite stage plays almost three decades ago, Iangelman66http://www.blogger.com/profile/16471674180789592940noreply@blogger.com8