Rent it now: The Elmore Leonard movie nobody knows
(Your faithful blogger is away this week. I thought it would be fun to run some golden oldies. For current microblogging from the road, follow the Twitter feed on this page or at @joesview on Twitter.)...
View Article‘Skidoo’: when the Hollywood old guard tried to get hip
The Otto Preminger film “Skidoo” flopped upon opening in late 1968 and then became a minor cult film after it vanished in a way that few big budget Hollywood films ever do. For more than 40 years, the...
View ArticleElmore Leonard & Hollywood: a rocky relationship
The crime novelist Elmore Leonard died Tuesday at the age of 87 after one of the most successful — and respected — careers in modern fiction. Leonard lived long enough to graduate from his pulp fiction...
View ArticleBack to 632 Elysian Fields — Yale Rep’s ‘Streetcar Named Desire’
The new Yale Repertory Theatre season opened Thursday night with a strong production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” that is running through Oct. 12. It was interesting to see the 1947 Tennessee Williams...
View ArticleThe mysterious and vast free YouTube movie archive
Many media outlets run very useful stories about the dozens of old and new movies that are added to the Netflix streaming library each month, but I wish someone would do the same sort of monitoring of...
View Article‘Party Animals’: 1970s Hollywood decadence
If you’re looking for an especially juicy Hollywood biography you should check out then-Variety senior editor Robert Hofler’s 2009 book about the film and stage producer Allan Carr — “Party Animals” —...
View Article‘Thief’: lost Alain Delon/Ann-Margret film noir
The bleak 1965 MGM production “Once a Thief” was plucked out of obscurity by Warner Archive recently and it is just the sort of interesting oddity the label seems designed to distribute. The movie was...
View Article‘Fabulous Allan Carr’: Hollywood flame-out
Working from Robert Hofler’s 2009 biography “Party Animals,” director Jeffrey Schwartz has put together a very entertaining documentary about the Hollywood and Broadway manager and producer Allan Carr....
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