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August Exits

Robert F. Boyle Oct. 10, 1909-Aug. 1, 2010 Larry Yachimec Jan. 11, 1959-Aug. 1, 2010 Mitch Jayne July 4, 1928-Aug. 2, 2010 Joffre Rodrigues Aug. 11, 1941-Aug. 4, 2010 Bruno Cremer Oct. 6, 1929-Aug. 7, 2010 Charlie Davao Oct. 7, 1934-Aug. 8, 2010 Patricia Neal Jan. 20, 1926-Aug. 8, 2010 George DiCenzo April 21, 1940-Aug. 9, 2010 Mariam Baharum ??, 1935-Aug. 9, 2010 Dana Dawson Aug. 7, 1974-Aug. 10, 2010 David L. Wolper Jan. 11, 1928-Aug. [...]

August Links

Classic film buffs with a yen for building up their home libraries should appreciate this crop of August blogs devoted to movies on dvd: Writing on the Turner Classic Movies site, film writer Glenn Erickson provides a critical overview of Akira Kurosawa’s earliest directorial efforts in an absorbing article commemorating their release on a new four-disc [...]

No Cheat Code for Life

Coming-of-age stories are pretty much by definition also getting-over-yourself stories, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a prime example of both. Though gussied up with slacker culture and a plethora of video game references, at its heart the graphic novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley on which the movie is based lies comfortably within that traditional [...]

July Exits

Ilene Woods May 5, 1929-July 1, 2010 Geoffrey Hutchings June 8, 1939-July 1, 2010 Laurent Terzieff June 27, 1935-July 2, 2010 M.G. Radhakrishnan Aug. 8, 1940-July 2, 2010 Ed Limato July 10, 1936-July 3, 2010 Murray Chercover Aug. 18, 1929-July 3, 2010 Jia Hongsheng Mar. 19, 1967-July 5, 2010 Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman ??-July 6, 2010 Robert Freitag April 7, 1914-July 8, 2010 Vonetta McGee Jan. 14, 1945-July 9, 2010 Aldo Sambrell Feb. 23, 1931-July 10, 2010 Robert Spillane Sept. [...]

Billy the Kid On Screen (Pt. 2)

(Part 1 began a look at Hollywood’s long-running love affair with the legend of Billy the Kid, whose brief and grubby real-life career came to an abrupt end at the hands of New Mexico sheriff Pat Garrett. The mythmaking continues:) Howard Hughes’ The Outlaw had gone into production in 1941 and was briefly released in 1943, [...]

Billy the Kid On Screen (Pt. 2) is a post from: The Shadow Cabaret Fandango - Search movie showtimes and buy tickets! THE SHADOW CABARET BY JAMES VANCE © 2007-2009 CATDANCER CORPORATION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

July Links

July bloggers have covered the waterfront, with smart and entertaining pieces that range from the virtual dawn of cinema to thoughts on sharing movies with your offspring in your own home. Turner Classic Movie “Morlocks” offer a roundtable discussion of what parents have learned about themselves while watching horror films with their children. You can read [...]

June Exits

Joseph Strick July 6, 1923-June 2, 2010 Josefa Cotillo June 16, 1944-June 2, 2010 Dorothy DeBorba Mar. 28, 1925 -June 2, 2010 Rue McClanahan Feb. 21, 1934-June 3, 2010 Himan Brown July 21, 1910-June 4, 2010 Richard Dunn Sept. 29, 1936 -June 4, 2010 Esma Agolli July 1, 1928-June 5, 2010 Steven Reuther ??, 1951-June 5, 2010 Robert B. Radnitz Aug. 9, 1924-June 6, 2010 Ladislav Smoljak Dec. 9, 1931-June 6, 2010 Plamen Maslarov Jan. 1, [...]

June Links

JUNE LINKS The lost worlds of Hollywood have been much on the minds of bloggers and reporters in June, including some rediscovered treasures that are sure to warm any movie lover’s heart: The biggest news on the lost-film front in recent years has to be the discovery in New Zealand of 75 silent movies that were long [...]

Billy the Kid On Screen (Pt. 1)

He’s been called everything from a homicidal moron to a cowboy Robin Hood – but whoever and whatever Billy the Kid really was, his brief and bloody career earned him an enduring place in the American imagination…and created a virtual cottage industry in Hollywood, where his legend has been mined, refined and reshaped in more [...]

Billy the Kid On Screen (Pt. 1) is a post from: The Shadow Cabaret Fandango - Search movie showtimes and buy tickets! THE SHADOW CABARET BY JAMES VANCE © 2007-2009 CATDANCER CORPORATION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.