andy is a 1965 dramatic film starring norman alden and written and directed by richard c. sarafian .

it was sarafian 's first directing credit for a feature film .

andy ( film )

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o ' pray , michael , editor , andy warhol : the film factory , lon - don , 1989 .
producer : andy warhol ; photographer : andy warhol ; screenplay : andy warhol and ronald tavel ; music : the velvet underground ; production assistant : paul morrissey .
the invitation to the 1965 premiere of andy warhol’s film “empire , ” now being shown in its entirety at the james fuentes gallery .
the writing of the film carried what the cinematography and editing lacked in “one night” . broad daylight scenes were noisy and continuity was found through the film .
ehrenstein , david , in film culture ( new york ) , fall 1966 .
“ breathe , ” the film directed by andy serkis that will premiere next month at the toronto film festival , has been named a centerpiece film at the 2017 hamptons international film festival , which has also announced an initial batch of titles on the slate including alexandre moors’ “ the yellow birds ” with toni collette and jennifer aniston and vincent gagliostro’s “after louie , ” starring alan cumming .
tyler , parker , underground film : a critical history , new york , 1969 .
the contrasts of the couples were represented through the scores and settings of the film .
steller , j . ,
beyond cinema : notes on some films by andy warhol ,
in film quarterly ( berkeley ) , fall 1966 .
chelsea girls issue ,
of film culture ( new york ) , summer 1967 .
larson , r . ,
a retrospective look at the films of d . w . griffith and andy warhol ,
in film journal ( new york ) , fall - winter 1972 .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
sipping jetstreams by taylor steele - feat . kelly slater , alex gray , andy irons
the 2017 hamptons international film festival runs oct . 5 - 9 , with passes going on sale sept . 5 .
a title has finally been announced for the long - awaited lonely island film project and it ' s expectedly irreverent .
director minhal baig created a visually creative film and written script . a notable theme taken was “same but different . ”
reviewed at venice film festival ( out of competition — nonfiction ) , september 5 , 2017 . running time : 95 min .
gidal , peter , andy warhol ' s films and paintings , london , 1971 , 1991 .
wilcock , john , the autobiography and sex life of andy warhol , new york , 1971 .
koch , stephen , andy warhol ' s world and his friends , new york , 1973 .
yet , the detail in the character’s development is what made this film special . strong writing and acting is what carried the movie .
with the headline : screen : ' andy ' at beekman ; simple tale succeeds at modest level .
elizabeth and andy carried the cast . camp’s performance had one of the strongest on - screen performances .
lugg , andrew ,
on andy warhol ,
in cineaste ( new york ) , winter 1967–68 .
an underground ‘indie’ score followed bea and andy’s relationship while a dramatic score was placed for elizabeth and drew .
tyler , parker ,
dragtime or drugtime : or film a la warhol ,
in evergreen revue ( new york ) , april 1967 .
the world premiere of “one night” explored the beauty and nativity of love oct . 14 during its screening at the 23rd annual austin film festival .
what do you do if you ' re nine and nobody will tell you what
fellatio
means ? when andy ' s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit , andy is not on her best behaviour . armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind , andy corners the men , who can do nothing buy comply .
he also directed “man in the wilderness , ” “the man who loved cat dancing , ” “run wild , run free” and other movies . his first feature film , “andy , ” was the story of a developmentally disabled man scraping by in new york .
the state theatre oct . 14 during the austin film festival . a variety of films were screened in the theater during the duration of the festival .
pratt , alan r . , editor , the critical response to andy warhol , westport , connecticut , 1997 .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
chris smith ' s on - set documentary about jim carrey channeling andy kaufman is a ticklish meditation on comedy and identity .
smith , patrick s . , andy warhol ' s art and films , ann arbor , michi - gan , 1986 .
the beloved prison saga’s big reveal comes when andy dufresne ( tim robbins ) vanishes from his cell . the dastardly warden tears a raquel welch poster off the wall to reveal andy’s tunnel . so who stuck the poster back in place after his escape ?
matters become complicated when norton has andy assist him with some shady dealings , involving andy having to launder the warden ' s money so that nothing gets traced back to either of them . a financial wizard who knows all the loopholes , andy launders everything through a mr . randall stevens : a completely fictional human being who even has his own social security card and birth certificate .
as for andy the talking hedgehog , no release date has been announced . however , its spiritual cousin might be a real film that reisig produced last year , entitled arlo the burping pig . if the trailer is any indication , arlo the burping pig is about a pig that can burp so hard that peoples’ hats fall off . if andy the talking hedgehog is anything like arlo the burping pig , you can pretty much count me in .
what do you do if you ' re nine and nobody will tell you what
fellatio
means ? when andy ' s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit , andy is not on her best behaviour . armed with a . . . see full summary »
koch , stephen , stargazer : andy warhol ' s world and his films , new york , 1973 ; revised edition , 1985 .
cipnic , d . j . ,
andy warhol : iconographer ,
in sight and sound ( london ) , summer 1972 .
obviously , like the rest of the world , i desperately wanted to know the story behind andy the talking hedgehog . although we can rule out the summary as nothing more than internet high jinks , it would appear that the film is real . back in november actress maria wasikowski tweeted a photo from the andy the talking hedgehog set , alongside dean cain and , one month later , tara reid instagrammed a shot of her character , fairy bff .
before andy leaves , he makes red promise that if he ever gets out , he ' ll dig up something in a remote hayfield .
norton
releases the hounds ,
but andy ' s long gone—and was probably too covered in sewage to leave much of a scent anyway .
when tara reid tweeted the poster for her latest film , the internet assumed it was a joke . but the truth is far more peculiar , and shines a light on modern low - budget moviemaking
according to mr . mekas , he and warhol joked during the shoot that with the building’s phallic shape , the whole film might be censored as pornography . but “empire” is more like endless foreplay .
without a happy or sad ending , “one night” left audience members with a story to be told and open for interpretation making the film a movie for everyone not just a ‘rom - com’ niche .
warhol , andy ,
my favourite superstar , notes on my epic , chelsea girls
in arts magazine ( new york ) , february 1967 .
a high school flourishing relationship of bea ( “orphan” isabelle fuhrman ) and andy ( kyle allen ) depict the butterflies in stomach stage of a relationship .
as andy tells red , he was clean as a whistle on the outside ; it took being sent to prison to turn him into a crook .
the indiegogo page was created by joel paul reisig , the film’s director . and it would appear that reisig is the mastermind behind be your own hollywood . he’s a 33 - year - old self - taught michigan native who writes , directs and produces an astonishing number of movies each year . he balances his film - making career with a series of $ 395 two - day seminars on how to write , produce , fund and distribute movies . these workshops might also double as a story - finding scheme , since in 2012 he produced a film called mary’s buttons , which was written by a seminar attendee .
for all of its foibles , “good kids” does manage to hit a few poignant emotional beats . a scene where a baked andy accidentally stumbles into the wrong house while searching for his “tennis” client leads to having a heart - to - heart with one of his bro - y peers , conch ( dayo okeniyi ) . conch opens andy’s eyes to the reality that the quartet were never really outcasts , but rather they isolated themselves from the other kids . it’s one of the few interesting scenes in the film , addressing a grey area as to whether those who view themselves as misfits are actually outsiders , or whether they sub - consciously exclude themselves out of self - preservation . the film’s final scene with andy and nora saying their goodbyes is also surprisingly poignant , evoking a denouement of new lost chances and endings , with the promise of new beginnings on the horizon .
the four main characters are decently portrayed throughout the film . braun acquits himself adequately to the role andy , and most of the film’s antics revolve around this character , in particular his unexpected summer job as a gigolo / tennis instructor and his online relationship with a girl from india , whom his friends think is a catfish . andy’s shenanigans are mildly amusing at best , and include a montage showing how he serves his “tennis” clients , an unexpected nude escape , and subsequent streaking charge . the best gag involves yogurt , and it will make any woman who’s had a uti clap their hands with vindictive glee . for the most part however , the gang comes off as “ american pie ” lite . the romance is also something left to be desired . andy’s supposedly long simmering attraction to nora comes out of nowhere , and it feels rather like a plot point that’s been added because it’s an expected trope of the genre , rather than organically weaved into the story . the worn out shtick of “guy is jealous of female friend’s new relationship , tears down and belittles girl” leaves a sour taste , but thankfully nora calls andy out on his behavior .
andy warhol was a genius , but he could be mean . he loved to make his acolytes squabble . he’d torture visitors by blaring the same pop song over and over .
“andy warhol is the most revolutionary of all filmmakers working today , ” jonas mekas , the village voice critic and film pioneer , wrote less than a month after “empire” was shot . last week , over lunch at a bar a few blocks from fuentes , which represents him , mr . mekas , 91 , still voiced the same views on warhol . “he was the avant - garde , ” mr . mekas said .
mockumentary , co - produced by judd apatow , that is cut from the same cloth as spinal tap ; exciting news for those familiar with the comedy trio headed by andy samberg .
richard c . sarafian , a hollywood director best known for the speed - addled saga of squealing brakes and existential angst chronicled in the 1971 cult film “vanishing point , ” died sept . 18 in santa monica , calif . he was 83 .
mr . and mrs . cliadakis , a couple of greek immigrants , live in a poor neighborhood of new york . their son , andy , is in his forties but he has the mental age of a child and his behavior outside the norm is not taken well by the neighbors of the family . andy ' s parents therefore decide to put him in a nursing home . . .
andy dufresne , the young , successful vice president of a major bank , finds his life taking a serious detour after his wife and her lover are murdered and the crime gets pinned on him .
“empire” had its premiere on march 6 , 1965 , and mr . mekas has saved the invitations , which credit the movie to “andy warhol and john palmer . ” we seem to glimpse mr . palmer , as well as mr . mekas , at the beginning of two of the film’s 10 reels , reflected in the time & life building window . there’s also a few seconds’ reflection of a man who must be warhol , taking a look through the camera .
“good kids” is a passible feature film debut from chris mccoy , having only previously directed the short , “ the bicycle . ” the film’s biggest problem lies in the writing . the screenplay is unevenly paced and relies much too heavily on tired teen movie tropes rather than attempting to tell a genuine story . mccoy is good at creating strong emotional moments , as evidenced in his previous short , but he tends to fall back on conventional and tired themes to move the story along . the film’s cinematography , courtesy of jimmy lindsey ( “ limitless , ” “ revolution ” ) is crisp , clear , and utilitarian , featuring beautiful shots of a shore town , easily capturing the beauty of summer . the fight sequence between “the lion” and the cabal of cuckolds is a bit dodgy , but could have been a lot worse .
a personal favorite was a bea and andy dinner scene . the couple found themselves in a higher end hotel restaurant ordering a plate of pancakes with jam and a plate of fries – a beautifully constructed contrast .
warhol shot the skyscraper between about 8 : 10 p . m . and 2 : 30 a . m . on july 25 and 26 , 1964 . this month , in its 50th - anniversary year , the film is being projected by the james fuentes gallery from start to finish .
one of the most magical scenes in steven spielberg’s classic is when e . t . makes elliott and co’s bikes fly . the glowy - fingered alien has telekinetic powers . so why doesn’t he levitate himself at the start of the film and get back on the spaceship before his buddies leave him behind ?
there ' s a glimmer of hope for andy when tommy , a new inmate , arrives at the prison , and it turns out he has information that could exonerate his new friend . the warden learns about it , and is none too keen to release into society someone with so much dirt on him . he has tommy murdered , throws andy into solitary for two months , and only releases him once he agrees to keep doing his dirty work .
the son of armenian immigrants , richard caspar sarafian was born april 28 , 1930 , in new york city . he attended new york university but “was a rotten student , ” he told the armenian reporter in 2008 , until he took a course in film writing and directing : “i got an a ! ”
“my first marriage didn’t work out but i definitely identified with what elizabeth was going through , ” camp said . “i was going through my divorce when we made this film and i wasn’t planning on getting married again when i shot this . it was emotional for me to watch this and to shoot . ”
“man on the moon” remains one of the most misunderstood great movies of the ’90s ( a lot of people just saw it as carrey doing kaufman’s greatest hits ) , because it’s really about how andy kaufman sacrificed his identity to showbiz — and , in doing so , became a herald for the age when entertainment would consume everything in its path , from our dreams to our identities . when kaufman wrestled women , coming on like bobby riggs on steroids and taunting the redneck crowds who turned out to see him , was it a put - on or was it a deep - down reflection of “the real andy” ? actually , it was the real andy pretending to be what he hated , and realizing that he loved being that way , but mostly because of the reaction it provoked .
the warden learns the shocking truth : for almost two decades , andy has been chiseling away at the wall with a rock hammer and hiding his handiwork behind a series of pinup posters procured by red , finally making his escape through the sewer pipes the night before .
“isabelle was actually the one who advocated for ( allen ) , ” baig said . “we let him read and we knew he was our guy but we played it off like ‘yeah he’s alright’ and then went into another room and were like ‘yes he’s ( andy ) ’” .
after another ten years , red does just that . he discovers that andy left him some spending money , as well as instructions on how to find him . the two friends are reunited on the beach in mexico , with one of most yearbook quote - worthy lines ever :
when i saw the film , i became one of its greatest champions ( it wound up being my movie of the year for 1999 ) , and carrey’s extraordinary performance vaulted over all my doubts . in “man on the moon , ” he nailed every nuance of andy kaufman ’s spirit , and he used his own mercurial quality as a comic to tease out the secret of kaufman’s genius , which is that he wasn’t just some dada tv art prankster crafting stunts to mess with your head . and he didn’t just want to make you laugh , either . he wanted to leave you amazed . he was , in that way , the very soul of showbiz .
anyway , he ' s sent to shawshank prison , where he ' s befriended by some total sweethearts , including a convicted murderer named red who eventually becomes his best bud . red ' s a guy who
knows how to get things ,
and andy asks him to get him a rock hammer to collect rocks—he ' s always been an amateur geology fan . red ' s glad to oblige . andy ' s also befriended by some guys who are . . . well , let ' s just say they don ' t want to examine rocks with him .
when reid tweeted the andy the talking hedgehog poster on friday , the internet went nuts . that was partly because the poster featured a hedgehog , two cats , dean cain , tara reid’s twitter profile pic manipulated to look slightly more wholesome and an unattributed quote calling it “a magical good time” . but it was also because the imdb plot summary for the film read “tara reid brings her oscar award - winning prowess to this documentary about a hedgehog that dean cain farted on giving it the ability to talk . it’s a fun - loving family movie that will for sure make you say “wowza . that’s a stinky fart ! ”’ that summary , incidentally , was attributed to scott baio .
the orlando bloom - esque ben winchell stars as max mcgrath , a shy 16 - year - old who’s sick of moving from town to town with his widowed mother , molly ( maria bello , whose mere presence is the only reason this movie gets half a star ) . at the film’s start , the two have just come back to the hometown of his late father ( mike doyle , seen in flashbacks ) , a scientist who died long ago in a mysterious , explosive accident . dad’s former partner , miles ( andy garcia , hamming it up big - time ) , who’s now in charge of the company the two built together , arrives soon afterward to help them get settled .
those glimpses feel especially important as you watch the film . they give a sense of the duration of the shooting of “empire , ” and of real people endlessly gazing out the window at the actual skyscraper — perfect avatars for those of us wallowing in the movie version . it’s the fact of that endless , parallel staring , by the filmmakers and us , that’s the real subject of this art work .
carrey , a jaw - dropping comic trailblazer of his own , grasped all that ; that’s why he captured kaufman so profoundly . but it wasn’t until i saw chris smith ’s ticklish and captivating documentary “ jim & andy : the great beyond — featuring a very special , contractually obligated mention of tony clifton , ” that i realized what the two comedic visionaries actually had in common . andy kaufman’s comedy emerged from his pathological role - playing , which was built around his weak sense of identity and his consuming need to create one . it turns out that jim carrey overlapped him in that department quite a bit .
one summer day in 1964 , he recalled , when he was out on the streets with a young warhol hanger - on named john palmer , they found themselves looking up at the empire state building . “i said to palmer : ‘this is a perfect warhol movie . why don’t you tell this to andy ? ’ and he did . ”
when it was announced in the late ’90s that jim carrey had been chosen to play andy kaufman in a major hollywood biopic , my gut reaction was skepticism . carrey , then at the height of his star power , was a brilliant comedian who had more than proved his acting chops ( in “the truman show” ) , yet both [ … ]
having cleared out the funds set up under randall stevens , andy absconds with over $ 300 , 000 of the warden ' s money , forwards the cooked account books to the local newspaper , and makes a bee line for mexico . the police come for the warden , who takes the coward ' s way out with a bullet to the brain .
that was fine ; she’d spent most of the interview revealing that she’s been the victim of bullying , so it would have felt cruel to directly follow that up with a sneery “hey tara , tell me about your dumb hedgehog movie” . but now andy the talking hedgehog is one of the hottest films on the planet , and i’m kicking myself a little .
in “jim & andy , ” we watch carrey submerge himself in the cantankerous , growly clifton mystique . on the days when they’re shooting tony clifton scenes , he refuses to break character , forcing miloš forman to give direction to this stunted , exhausting man who will not listen to a thing he says . carrey , like andy , revels in taking the joke too far . we see priceless footage of the night that tony showed up at the playboy mansion and partied with hugh hefner , who thought that he was in on the joke ; he presumed that he was hosting jim carrey . and then , after two hours , into the party walks…jim carrey ! hef turns white as a sheet , and tony clifton gets booted out of the party . but at that moment , he lives .
in the film , ex - cop , ex - racer and vietnam vet kowalski , played by barry newman , bets his drug dealer he can deliver a supercharged 1970 dodge challenger to california in 15 hours . the reasons for the wager are unclear , but it triggers 90 minutes worth of screaming police cruisers and an excited , crash - by - crash radio narration by super soul , a blind disc jockey played by cleavon little . kowalski also encounters desert hippies , a rattlesnake wrangler and an alluring , naked blond woman on a motorcycle .
after 20 years at shawshank , andy doesn ' t seem like himself . his buddies are worried , and he asks one of them for a length of rope . he seems to be telling red . . . goodbye . one morning , he doesn ' t make it out of his cell for roll call . red fears the worst , but astonishingly , he isn ' t in there at all .
you’d expect that after hour 3 or 4 of “empire , ” you’d be ready to slit your wrists , but the movie turns out to be gripping . if great works of art can be thought of as machines for thinking , triggering ideas by the dozen , then “empire” is a rolls - royce : it keeps us thinking about what film is and does , what great buildings are all about and even how and why we look at things . jotting down my thoughts minute by minute , i ended up writing more than 5 , 000 words .
the level on which to take
andy ,
a drama of a mentally deficient man , written and directed by richard c . sarafian , which opened at the beekman yesterday , is that of the small , special picture that doesn ' t pretend to the large amenities , but aims to tell only a modest story and to do it sensitively and well . on that level , which view full article in timesmachine »
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with his considerable accounting skills , andy begins helping warden norton and the guards with their taxes and other financial issues , and he ' s suddenly vaulted into the position of teacher ' s pet . he gets shown so much favoritism that the guards end up having his back , even going so far as to , uh , take care of another inmate who doesn ' t seem able to take
no
for an answer .
no journalist likes to admit this , but i recently blew a scoop . last month i had to interview tara reid about sharknado 5 . i’d planned to ask her about some of her upcoming roles – in films with titles such as party bus to hell , united colors of bennett song and andy the talking hedgehog – but before i could get there , reid cut me off with what sounded like a well - practised wrap - up speech .
carrey’s comedy , too , erupted out of him like an alternate personality , and he grew up riddled with insecurities ( like a lot of performers ) . but once he got famous , something inside him snapped . nice , grinning , friendly canadian jim divided off from dark , weird , troubled , who - am - i ? jim . channeling andy kaufman was a catharsis for him , because it put him in touch with his inner split personality .
production : andy warhol films ; black and white and eastmancolor , 16mm ; running time : 195 minutes , other versions are 210 and 205 minutes . released 15 september 1966 ; uncut reels were projected side by side ; in the general release version , the 1st reel appeared screen right , and a few minutes later , the second appeared screen left . filmed 1966 in the chelsea hotel , new york city ; other parts of new york city ; and cambridge , massachusetts .
except that he cherished that reaction more than anything , so maybe it was the real him . or maybe there was no real him . in one of the greatest scenes in “man on the moon , ” carrey , as kaufman , as tony clifton gets up on stage and does his unspeakable rendition of “i’ve gotta be me . ” it’s bottom - of - the - barrel sentimental showbiz hooey , but it’s all built around a conundrum : who , exactly , is me ? “jim & andy : the great beyond” shows you that the answer is a grand illusion .
on the set of “man on the moon , ” he went full daniel day - lewis , staying in character when the cameras were turned off . this meant , much of the time , that he was sweet , mild , tentative andy and therefore easy to deal with . but it also meant that when the salty - tempered professional wrestler jerry lawler showed up to do his scenes , carrey - as - andy would harass him in the same way that kaufman used to — except that as we see , the mockery was even more scathing . in the ’80s , kaufman and lawler went at each other like a blue red / red state nuclear meltdown , but lawler was in on the joke ; off camera , as he explains on the set , kaufman was nice as pie . that’s what he expected from carrey , but instead carrey would push lawler’s buttons , asking him if he’d stolen his bejeweled cape from elvis or saying “once again , proving darwin’s theory…” he kept pushing them , even after he’d crossed the line , provoking lawler to fits of rage . to stay in character , carrey , as kaufman , became a method pest .
the remaining passengers are now waking up—including the captain , inexplicably played by andy garcia ( he has zero lines and perhaps six seconds of screen time . ) after emerging from their pods , they notice the ship has been transformed into a forest of sorts—as jim and aurora have stayed together and planted vegetation and raised animals and lived happily ever after on the ship because love always wins and that a man can get away with being a creep to a woman as long as he saves that woman’s life at least once . and now they’re dead . stockholm syndrome is real , and it is spectacular .
when it was announced in the late ’90s that jim carrey had been chosen to play andy kaufman in a major hollywood biopic , my gut reaction was skepticism . carrey , then at the height of his star power , was a brilliant comedian who had more than proved his acting chops ( in “the truman show” ) , yet both temperamentally and ethnically he seemed wrong for the part : kaufman was a doughy nerdy jewish space cadet , carrey a hypomanic string - bean wasp . i knew that carrey had the talent to “impersonate” anyone , but could he really merge with kaufman’s antic yet morose there - but - not - quite - there quality ?
smith interviews carrey the same way that he did the dystopian journalist michael ruppert in “collapse” — one direct shot , never varying , a kind of errol morris approach — and it works beautifully , since carrey is a hypnotic talker who opens himself up to the camera . he has a stoned zen view of life that’s easy to mock but is , in fact , quite reality - based , and he’s up front about what an immersive toll the kaufman movie took on him . after it wrapped , r . e . m . tried to get carrey to go back into his kaufman guise to shoot the video for “the great beyond , ” and he refused . once he’d disentangled himself from andy , he couldn’t take going back .
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director richard sarafian was best known for 1971’s car - chase thriller “vanishing point . ” ( ap / ap )
mr . sarafian was recovering from a broken back when he contracted pneumonia , family members said .
he directed numerous films and , earlier in his career , tv shows , including episodes of “gunsmoke , ” “the twilight zone” and “batman . ” he also acted , appearing as a hit man named vinnie in the warren beatty satire “bulworth” and as gangster jack dragna in beatty’s “bugsy . ”
in “dr . doolittle 2 , ” mr . sarafian did a comic turn as the voice of the god beaver , who ran the forest like a mafia don with buck teeth .
but it was “vanishing point , ” the story of a tough guy named kowalski and his frenzied road trip from denver to san francisco , that proved to be mr . sarafian’s most enduring work .
“i had absolutely no idea that this thing would survive all these years , ” he told the web site urltoken in 2009 . “we worked hard in the hot sun and we partied at night . you just hope , like everything , that you blow the audience a few kisses and try to fulfill your vision of what it’s about
freedom , an endless road and let the cards fall where they may . ”
in quentin tarantino’s “death proof , ” the director gave mr . sarafian a “special thanks” credit , a bow to the influence of “vanishing point . ”
in 1997 , the scottish rock band primal scream paid tribute to mr . sarafian by naming an album “vanishing point . ”
“it’s always been a favorite of the band , ” leader bobby gillespie explained . “we love the air of paranoia and speed - freak righteousness . ”
“the beauty of ‘vanishing point’ was that i met the challenge to physicalize speed , ” he told turner classic movies .
serving during the korean war as a reporter for an army news service , he was stationed for a time in kansas city , mo . , where he met future hollywood director robert altman .
the two became pals and worked together making industrial films . when altman directed a local play , mr . sarafian acted in it . the director’s sister came bounding backstage after he appeared , her arms opened wide .
they married ( and divorced and remarried ) and had five children . helen joan altman died two years ago .
mr . sarafian got his start in tv as altman’s assistant but quickly established himself as a director . the 1963 ““living doll” episode for “the twilight zone” was one of his more famous efforts .
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the story of a mentally handicapped middle - aged man and how he , and his elderly parents who must take care of him , manage to get along in new york city .
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influential arab diplomat becomes the target of numerous assassination attempts , when he announces his plan to make peace with israel by letting them join the organization of the petroleum exporting countries ( opec ) .
reformed drug addict tim brett is holidaying in italy with his aunt . when she is murdered , he tries to investigate , and soon his whole life is out of control .
in this western , a mexican gunslinger is injured trying to save his son and put into prison . when he ' s released , he ' s got revenge on his mind .
western story about a defiant wife who leaves her husband to take up riding with outlaws .
in the early 1970s , a young woman passing through rural tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans , the feathers and the gutshalls .
award : grand prix inter - clubs du cinéma 1966 , france ( tied with kaneto shindo ' s
onibaba
) .
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girl in the bunker : based on a true story ( 2018 ) henry thomas ( e . t . ) moira kelly ( cutting edge )
director : chris smith with : jim carrey . release date : sep 5 , 2017
then , of course , there’s tony clifton . the portly , grunting , stupendously coarse and vulgar lounge lizard , in his pastel tuxedos and sunglasses he never took off , with his lips jutting out , his whole coiffed head bent forward like a broken telescope , was kaufman’s greatest creation . he was an “entertainer” with the personality of a bronx cab driver , an insult comic who hurled insults at people that barely rose to the level of comedy . but that become a loose - cannon id for kaufman , who was liberated by the disguise . there was something so authentic about tony — he was every fourth - rate vegas nightclub host of the ’60s rolled into one seedy ball of non - talent — that he literally took on an identity of his own . kaufman and his partner bob zmuda would take turns putting on the elaborate jowly makeup and playing him , so that tony was more than a walking bad joke about a guy who told bad jokes . he simply…existed . ( which just heightened the joke . )
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crew : director : chris smith . camera ( color , widescreen ) : brantley gutierrez . editor : barry poltermann .
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serkis’ directorial debut “ breathe , ” which will screen in east hampton as the sunday centerpiece of the festival , stars andrew garfield and clarie foy in a story about a man and his wife who defy the medical establishment in order to live life to the fullest after garfield’s character contracts polio at age 28 . serkis is on tap to attend the festival .
also joining hiff’s 25th anniversary lineup is “lbj , ” starring woody harrelson as the titular president and directed by rob reiner , who will participate in the festival’s “a conversation with…” series of live talks . ai weiwei’s immigrant documentary “human flow , ” ruben ostlund’s palme d’or winner “the square” and atsuko hirayanagi’s dramedy “oh lucy ! ” are also among the films on tap .
collette will attend the festival in support of iraq war drama “the yellow birds , ” and cumming will be there with “after louise , ” a drama about a new york artist who survives the city’s aids epidemic .
as previously announced , the 2017 hamptons fest will honor julie andrews in an event that includes a screening of “victor / victoria . ” also presented that weekend is variety’s 10 actors to watch , which this year includes timothee chalamet , daveed diggs and danielle macdonald , among others .
sharknado 5’s tara reid : ‘it can get abusive . there’s a lot of bullying’
a parent’s worst nightmare formed my way into the machinations of be your own hollywood . some light googling revealed both a trailer , introduced by footage of dean cain talking into his phone , and an indiegogo page that successfully funded its $ 10 , 000 target , possibly because it offered the role of “dean cain’s wife” as a reward for donations .
according to imdb , reisig is also a boxer , a member of the libertarian party and he once scored 150 on an iq test . he has not responded to requests for an interview .
aside from puppies and dean cain , the be your own hollywood films all have one thing in common ; they’re cheap genre movies churned out specifically to sell to cable channels and streaming services . they won’t win any awards , but they presumably make money and form reliable work for a number of actors who might otherwise struggle . they’re also produced in a very modern way – financed through crowdfunding , promoted through social media – that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago . reisig saw an opening and went for it , and you can’t deny him that .
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it turns out leonardo dicaprio’s jack dawson didn’t have to die in the atlantic after all . we list some other films that take suspension of disbelief a plot point too far
titanic . . . kate winslet has revealed there was some room on the lifeboat . photograph : allstar picture library
admitted this week that in the climactic scene , her co - star , leonardo dicaprio , could have fitted on that raft after all , meaning his character jack dawson shivered to death in the atlantic unnecessarily . swizz . so in a spirit of cinematic truth - telling , here are 10 more movie plot holes we’d like closure on please…
too busy flirting . . . humphrey bogart and lauren bacall in the big sleep . photograph : courtesy everett collection / rex
who actually dunnit ? amid all the double - crossing and flirty fast - talking of the bogart ’n’ bacall noir , we never learn who killed the chauffeur owen taylor . during filming , director howard hawks wired author raymond chandler , who replied : “damned if i know . ”
a key premise of the pixar action comedy is that square - jawed space ranger buzz lightyear doesn’t believe he’s a toy . so how come he still freezes like the others when a human enters the room ?
time - travelling teen marty mcfly ( michael j fox ) interferes in the events of 1955 to change his family’s future . so why don’t his parents george and lorraine remember “ calvin klein ” , who matchmade them and inspired george’s sci - fi career ? and who also looks exactly like their son ?
a beautiful moment in tim burton’s twisted fairytale comes when heartbroken edward ( johnny depp ) creates spectacular ice sculptures in the attic . where did he get the huge blocks of ice ?
orson welles as charles foster kane in citizen kane . photograph : sportsphoto ltd / allstar
“ rosebud . ” the mysterious final utterance of newspaper tycoon charles foster kane ( orson welles ) sparks a search for its meaning . except kane died alone . so who heard his dying words ?
in the heist flick that hailed quentin tarantino ’s arrival , a mexican standoff sees joe cabot’s gun aimed at mr orange , mr white’s gun aimed at joe and nice guy eddie’s gun aimed at mr white . bang , bang , bang and all fall down . so who shot nice guy eddie ?
in x - men : the last stand ( 2006 ) , phoenix aka jean grey is tearing reality apart . skin rips from wolverine’s body but his trousers remain intact . see also hulk , who bursts out of everything except his slacks . anyone would think comic books were coy about super - penises .
actor ' s failed rap star , named conner4real , who attempts to reform his old cheesy pop boy band .
the musical group are renowned for their comedy songs
like a boss
,
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and
d * ck in a box ,
the latter of which featured justin timberlake .
popstar : never stop never stopping will also star sarah silverman , imogen poots and the inbetweeners actor james buckley who ' ll play sponge , a member of connor4real ' s entourage .
he could even be tough on his audiences , especially with his films : he gave fans almost 45 minutes of a painter eating a mushroom , 76 minutes of an actor shaking his rear , more than five hours of a boyfriend sleeping and , to top it all , “empire” — eight hours straight of the empire state building , doing nothing .
on the screening’s first weekend , i showed up prepared : coconut water , sandwiches , an apple and some old christmas cookies — as well as a caffeine - spiked energy drink . only that last item was never called for .
there were dumb moments ( “back from 2 min . bathroom break . what did i miss ? ! ” ) and ones that felt smart at the time ( “the e . s . b . used to be lit as a monument , in honor of its presence and importance as a building . now , covered in leds , it has become like a times square mega - screen , advertising itself , and n . y . c . ” ) but what’s surprising is that , for all its vast length , “empire” doesn’t leave you with that many blank moments .
warhol arranged access to an office on the 41st floor of the time & life building , at 50th street and avenue of the americas . he , mr . mekas and mr . palmer , along with a few others , found themselves in a darkened room , with a rented 16 - millimeter arriflex camera pointing at the world’s tallest building , 16 blocks south .
the shoot lasted about six and a half hours , but warhol always intended his movie — silent , black and white , and filmed at the standard 24 frames a second — to be screened at about three - quarters speed . “he wanted that touch of unreality , to take it out of naturalism , ” mr . mekas said .
at fuentes , the screening , at 18 frames a second , takes just over seven hours , while a 1960s projector would have slowed it to 16 frames a second , taking eight hours . warhol , the working - class boy from pittsburgh , made a movie that asks us to sit for the length of a worker’s shift .
( the longest anyone else sat with me in the gallery screening was seven minutes . you understand as much from viewing such a tiny segment of “empire” as you would from viewing just a postage - stamp patch on the mona lisa . )
when you’re paying attention to more or less nothing , small details start to loom . turns out you can tell the time in the movie by the beacon on top of the met life tower , which flashes with each hour like a tolling church bell . and it seems amazing that a work that’s all about passing time should include such a perfect means of marking it .
warhol , mr . campbell’s soup , was always a master of important triviality , and he gets us to care more about little things , like a flash bulb’s firing from the empire state’s summit , or its floodlights turning on and off at dusk and 2 a . m . , than the great structure itself . in its dependable presence , hour after hour , it ends up having the cozy appeal of a house cat asleep beside us .
“empire” is shown starting at 11 a . m . wednesday through sunday through jan . 26 at the james fuentes gallery , 55 delancey street , between allen and eldridge streets , lower east side ; 212 - 577 - 1201 , jamesfuentes . com .
cast :
the pope ondine story
—ondine ( pope ) ; angelina davis ( pepper ) ; ingrid superstar ; albert rené ricard ; mary might ; international velvet ; ronna .
the duchess
—brigid polk .
the john
— ed hood ( ed ) ; patrick flemming ( patrick ) ; mario montez ( transvestite ) ; angelina
pepper
davis ; international velvet ; mary might ; gerard malanga ; albert rené ricard ; ingrid superstar .
hanoi hanna ( queen of china )
—mary might ( hanoi hanna ) ; international velvet ; ingrid superstar ; angelina
pepper
davis .
the gerard malanga story
—marie menken ( mother ) ; gerard malanga ( son ) ; mary might ( girlfriend ) .
the trip
and
their town ( toby short )
—eric emerson .
afternoon
—edie sedgwick ( edie ) ; ondine ; arthur loeb ; donald lyons ; dorothy dean .
the closet
— nico ; randy borscheidt .
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—eric emerson ; ari .


they drive by night is a 1938 british black-and-white , crime thriller , directed by arthur b. woods starring emlyn williams as ' shorty ' , an ex-con , ernest thesiger as hoover , an ex-schoolteacher , and ronald shiner as charlie , the café proprietor .

it was produced by warner bros. - first national productions .

the film is based on the novel of the same name by james curtis .

the picture is sometimes confused with the 1940 american film , they drive by night , based on the novel the long haul by a. i. bezzerides and featuring george raft and humphrey bogart .

they drive by night ( 1938 film )

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this is the 1938 british movie they drive by night , not the 1940 raoul walsh one with the same title . walsh’s film is a searing drama about truck drivers . woods’ film is a crime thriller that isn’t really about truck drivers at all , which is maybe part of the trouble with it .
they drive by night ( d . arthur woods , 1939 ) was made as a quota film by warner brothers at teddington , which had been bought and modernised by the studio in the early thirties . the fruits of these improvements show , particularly in the atmospheric soundtrack and the fluid cinematography by basil emmott .
they drive by night is a 1940 black - and - white film noir starring george raft , ann sheridan , ida lupino , and humphrey bogart , and directed by raoul walsh . the picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the uk under the title the road to frisco . the film was based on a . i . bezzerides ‘ 1938 novel long haul , which was later reprinted under the title they drive by night to capitalize on the success of the film . part of the film’s plot ( that of ida lupino’s character murdering her husband by carbon monoxide poisoning ) was borrowed from another warner bros . film , bordertown ( 1935 ) .
they drive by night is a 1940 black - and - white film noir starring george raft , ann sheridan , ida lupino , and humphrey bogart , and directed by raoul walsh . the picture involves a pair of embattled truck drivers and was released in the uk under the title the road to frisco . the film was based on a . i . bezzerides ' 1938 novel long haul , which was later reprinted under the title they drive by night to capitalize on the success of the film . [ 2 ] part of the film ' s plot ( that of ida lupino ' s character murdering her husband by carbon monoxide poisoning ) was borrowed from another warner bros . film , bordertown ( 1935 ) .
variety quotes from weekly variety . 16 feb 1938 . 129 : 10 . 15 .
as they pause by the fire , we cut to the circus in the nearby town .
“half social - realist drama about truckers , half women’s genre melodrama about a neurotic rich wife who murders her husband and makes a play for another man” , as robert sklar explains , even for a raoul walsh movie they drive by night is hard to define .
released in december , 1938 : a demented killer is strangling dance hall girls , and a hapless ex - con is accused and chased by the police .
the film began production in september 1937 and continued until january 1938 , with its premiere coming on february 18 , just over a month after shooting wrapped .
when the film was released , the new york times film critic , bosley crowther , gave the film a positive review , writing , “but for fanciers of hard - boiled cinema , they drive by night still offers an entertaining ride . as mr . raft modestly remarks of his breed , ‘we’re tougher than any truck ever come off an assembly line . ’ that goes for the picture , too . ”
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fun fact : one million dollars in 1938 money is about sixteen million in 2015 cash . so it’s a big deal .
when the film was released , the new york times film critic , bosley crowther , gave the film a positive review , writing ,
but for fanciers of hard - boiled cinema , they drive by night still offers an entertaining ride . as mr . raft modestly remarks of his breed , ' we ' re tougher than any truck ever come off an assembly line . ' that goes for the picture , too .
[ 6 ]
the turning point came with
the light that failed ,
in which she forcefully played a vengeful prostitute who betrays an artist going blind ( ronald colman ) . that performance and her next one , as a demented murderer in
they drive by night ,
won her a long - term contract at warner brothers .
the beginning of the 1940s in hollywood sees the loosening of genre conventions as different movie formats began to interbreed . in particular a kind of gangster - flick meanness began to shove its way into regular drama , eventually producing the style we now call film noir . they drive by night is an odd little transition movie from this period , one of those awkward little steps in an evolutionary process .
they drive by night shows the realities of life for women scraping by selling sex , whether on drummond street , lisle street or the great north road . they are the victims of abuse , poverty , sexual assault , murder . while the novel is a fast - paced , exciting read that stands out for its use of language and its shifting locations , it is much more , the author’s subtle social commentary adding another , deeper layer to the story . john king
of course the device of slightly barmy yet beautiful women bumping off their husbands would become something of a film noir staple . but here is where they drive by night shows its primitiveness alongside later noirs . raft resists lupino like a saint , and stays true to goody - goody anne sheridan ( and on the subject of sheridan , why is she suddenly transformed from smooth - talking floozy to prim housewife - in - waiting ? ) over the next two decades fred macmurray , orson welles and even jimmy stewart would be getting suckered in by the “wrong kind of woman” and being dragged down to a sorry end . and perhaps this is the final flaw in they drive by night . in pictures like this , we don’t want perfect morals and cosy endings . we want the hero to take the bait hook , line and sinker .
ridiculously , i’ve never watched hell drivers , though i have a copy here . i think that one would make a good double with the us they drive , or with jules dassin’s thieves’ highway .
despite his politicised criticism of the justice system , his anger at the way he saw the legal machine working for the rich in a capitalist system , curtis avoids preaching in his novels . his ideas act as props for his sentences , fuel the energy of his narratives . they drive by night is packed with observation and sense of place – whether london or the major roads of the north . it is also full of his trademark use of slang and working - class dialogue . as jonathan meades shows in his introduction to the new london classics edition , they drive by night is a dream come true for anyone interested in this sort of language . while curtis captures the speech of ordinary men and women , by moving into the margins of society he is able to record its more outrageous use . this ability alone makes james curtis a true cult author .
sources : bazin , andré . orson welles : a critical view . foreword by françois truffaut ; profile by jean cocteau ; translated from the french by jonathan rosenbaum . new york : harper & row , 1978 .
it was after the release of bringing up baby that the independent theatre owners of america included hepburn on a list of actors they called “box office poison . ” the list , published in the independent film journal in may 1938 , also included such legends as joan crawford , fred astaire , and greta garbo .
in the course of more than 50 films , miss lupino was a spiteful cockney in
the light that failed
( 1939 ) , a crazed wife in
they drive by night
( 1940 ) , a loyal girlfriend in
high sierra
( 1941 ) , an escaped convict in
the sea wolf
( 1941 ) and a steely murderer in
ladies in retirement
( 1941 ) .
after holiday was released in june 1938 , audiences had to wait about eighteen months before seeing grant and hepburn in their fourth and final film , the philadelphia story ( 1941 ) . i wish that grant and hepburn had made more films together . it always looks as though they are having a marvelous time onscreen .
runyonesque broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of nazi saboteurs .
in they drive by night shorty recognises molly from the caffs on the edgware road , and this busy street leading into central london seems to have been similar to the tottenham court road of the day , full of wide boys and chisellers . the edgware road is more upmarket these days , though still known for its middle eastern food , the greasy spoons of curtis’s time replaced by eateries dealing in cheap meze , felafel and coffee . curtis wouldn’t have minded . spaghetti was still considered exotic in the thirties .
david and susan head off into the night to try and catch baby before the zoo does . george ran off while they were on the phone , so david keeps an eye out for the terrier , too .
when this film was released in early 1938 , variety called bringing up baby “the most frantic and whirligig of recent film funnies” with “general ludicrous hullaballoo . ” ( its “whirligig” nature is due to the fact that the movie contains all the conventions and tropes of screwball comedy bundled into 102 minutes of nonstop nuttiness . )
the locations mentioned in they drive by night will interest london lovers , both for the fact they can be identified today and also for the way in which they have changed since the thirties . drummond street , where alice lives and dies , is now lined with south indian diners in a somers town that is largely asian . but it isn’t hard to imagine the area in the thirties , when it housed a different population – transient , verging on criminality perhaps , a short walk into soho or camden town , the old boozers full of characters from patrick hamilton’s trilogy twenty thousand streets under the sky , which was based around a local pub .
the promoter immediately shifts his sights to a rival tennis player , and millie is rebuffed by her husband and her daughter . the final shot of the film shows millie at night , alone , sitting in the now empty bleachers of the championship tennis court , her plans for vicarious stardom smashed .
but aunt elizabeth and major applegate stumble on baby first as they stroll around the house .
not to be confused with either nicholas ray ' s melancholic 1949 crime tale they live by night or raoul walsh ' s 1940 action - melodrama ( which borrowed only its title ) , this british thriller concerns one flawed man ' s attempts at clearing his name . they drive by night stars emlyn williams as shorty , a just - released convict eager to reunite with his girlfriend - - whom he finds strangled to death when he reaches her apartment . certain the police won ' t look favorably upon him should he report the dead body , shorty enlists the help of ex - girlfriend molly ( anna konstam ) in an attempt to find the real killer , amidst the intrusions of walter hoover ( ernst thesiger ) , a creepy forensic criminologist who might know more than he lets on . ~ michael hastings , rovi
as mentioned above , i’m not really sure how one would classify this film since there is humor , film noir , soap opera , straight drama and romance all in it . the combination makes the film interesting and recommended .
“ south of the chocolate mountains : scattered impressions of the hitch - hiker ” bright lights film journal essay on lupino’s film the hitch - hiker .
they drive by night shifts between the claustrophobic streets of central london and the open roads of the north , the urban screwsman hitching rides on lorries driven by hardened working men , discovering a petrol - soaked world of roadside caffs and travelling tarts searching for a lift and a ‘present’ . shorty is soon the subject of a police manhunt and endures several adventures , along the way meeting up with molly , an old friend from their time as ‘chavvies’ on the edgware road . he saves her from being raped by a couple of ‘gutter crawlers’ , beating the men to a pulp for their assault , his actions in direct contrast to the plans of the real killer back in london .
thank you ! i love grant in his comedies , too . thanks for stopping by !
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miss lupino is survived by a daughter , bridget duff , and a sister , rita lupino .
living in the quieter neighbourhood of clapham junction , but operating around the west end , alice’s killer is becoming more and more deranged . mental ramblings reveal his identity , though he refers to himself as the lone wolf and sees his psychopathic behaviour as a form of cleansing . he is wiping the scum from the streets , eliminating prostitutes so they won’t pester decent citizens for money . this is social cleansing by the cleansing flame , a mask for his failure , perversion and class prejudice . he strikes again and they drive by night turns full circle . the streetwalker queenie glimpses the killer . the police keep hunting shorty , but drag in the victim’s pimp big harry and accuse him of this latest murder . the hangman’s noose awaits one of these men .
this film won best director and actor at the 1956 asian film festival famas awards for best actor , picture , story , editing , and sound . [ ↩ ]
they stumble through the woods with a butterfly net and a croquet mallet , the classic leopard hunting tools .
they stop to dry off , and of course susan sets fire to one of david’s socks . typical .
when aunt elizabeth realizes that susan is not actually at home , she and major applegate go down to the jail . but the constable doesn’t believe that they are who they say they are either , so he locks them up ! gogarty ends up in a cell , too , and soon everyone is collected behind bars .
yes , the urban sceneries of metro manila are well - depicted in this film like the case of “victory joe” on war - torn manila and in other film retros .
brothers paul and joe fabrini run a trucking business in california mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in los angeles . they struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition . they are forced into driving long hours and one night pick - up waitress cassie hartley who ' s just quit her job at a truck stop . the three of them witness the death of a mutual acquaintance when he falls asleep at the wheel . this has a profound effect on paul and joe and they become determined to find a way to make the business pay so they can quit .
just before the boys pull into haig ' s truck stop there is a night scene of the truck on the highway with two cars behind it , and a road marker showing . after they leave haig ' s the same scene is shown again with only a cloud slightly different .
the bigamist was the last of lupino’s films under her rko deal , which was not renewed . for the first time , lupino appeared in a film that she directed . the production is surrounded by considerable irony , inasmuch as it was joan fontaine’s involvement with collier young ( and lupino’s corresponding association with actor howard duff ) that precipitated the divorce between lupino and young . young and fontaine were then married , as were lupino and duff . the film was distributed by the filmakers group after rko passed on the complete film . without the necessary national distribution mechanism afforded by a major studio , the film failed to obtain adequate bookings and the filmakers went out of business .
established in 1938 , lvn was among the big three studios whose output accounted for 65 % of the films produced from 1946 to 1960 , a period roughly coextensive with the golden age of filipino filmmaking . 6 the commercially profitable star vehicles crafted by executive producer doña sisang 7 at lvn were an admixture of nationalism , commercialism , and escapism . director lamberto avellana recalls her saying , “why remind audiences of their hardship ? ” 8 studio era escapism was most often achieved by predictable happy endings . yet in gregorio fernandez’s 1955 melodrama higit sa lahat [ above all ] 9 , the obligatory narrative resolution is undermined by the film’s trenchant critique of postwar materialism .
it is possible that author james curtis served time in prison . much of his life remains shrouded in mystery , but his descriptions of life behind bars , his knowledge of procedure , suggest this is more than speculation . it is safe to say that he didn’t trust the justice system . his non - fiction work , a guide to british liberties , published as part of the fact series in september , 1937 , is clear evidence of this , but it is in his fiction where his beliefs are more flamboyantly revealed , novels such as they drive by night and the gilt kid being obvious examples .
and that’s not all that’s wrong with the story . they drive by night sets itself up , quite promisingly , as a gritty action drama about the lives of bottom - rung truckers . then , halfway through , the plot is hijacked by lupino and turned into some femme - fatale murder wotsit , and all the business about trying to scrape a meagre profit and stay awake on long hauls ( not to mention bogart’s character ) is forgotten . it’s not that this is confusing , as both parts are fairly straightforward , it’s just that neither of them is fully developed . each bit looks like half a movie , the first one trailing off into nothing , the second boiled down into forty minutes of clichés .
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with the headline : ida lupino , film actress and director , is dead at 77 .
unexpectedly , the “kung ako’y mahal mo” was an enjoyable and well - polished film by dr . gregorio fernandez – the father of merly fernandez ( of “uhaw” fame ) and the late rudy fernandez .
she was married to ( and divorced from ) the actor louis hayward ( 1938 to 1945 ) as well as mr . young ( 1948 to 1951 ) . she and howard duff were married in 1951 and divorced in 1983 . he died in 1990 .
fun fact : virginia walker was the first actress that howard hawks signed to a personal contract . he “loaned” her to rko to play miss swallow . she married hawks’ brother william ( bill ) just a few months after making this movie in june 1938 .
unfortunately , he wasn’t vindicated until decades later , and was instead punished for the film . hawks’ refusal to listen to rko executives , the film’s lackluster box office , and the damnable fact that bringing up baby went $ 306 , 000 over budget and forty days behind schedule , made rko so mad that they removed him from gunga din ( 1939 ) , and gave the film to director george stevens .
ida lupino’s first big break came in william wellman’s 1940 production of the light that failed , a role that lupino fought for over the objections of wellman , co - star ronald colman , and her advisors , who assured her that the unsympathetic cockney girl she played in the film would alienate audiences . instead , lupino walked away with the film and emerged as a major star as the year drew to a close . signing with warner brothers , lupino commanded star billing in such gritty classics as they drive by night ( raoul walsh , 1940 ) , high sierra ( walsh , 1941 ) , the sea wolf ( michael curtiz , 1941 ) , and ladies in retirement ( charles vidor , 1941 ) . in 1943 , ida lupino received the best actress award from the new york film critics association for her work in the hard way , but , in truth , she was becoming disenchanted with her career as an actress .
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evans , peter william . carol reed . british film makers . manchester university press , 2005 .
warner brothers were not confident of the film ' s commercial potential , and after having gained an american certificate ( minus a shot of a book entitled ' sex in relation to society ' in hoover ' s collection ) they told the censors that they couldn ' t get a negative out of britain , and were therefore not planning a us release .
barbara scharres , “ida lupino” , the film center gazette , 16 . 2 , p . 4 .
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and then it’s back to leopard hunting ! they see baby on the roof of a house , so they do what any normal person would do , and begin singing baby’s favorite song to get him to come down . george is there , too , so he contributes to the serenade . i love this moment because susan and david seem to forget why they are singing and instead focus on harmonizing !
one night after homely and portly ed drinks himself into a stupor , forcing lana to drive , she parks in the garage . ed is too drunk to walk , and walsh holds the shot on lupino’s eyes as lana begins to think through the plot of her husband’s “accidental” death . never overplayed by lupino as she leaves the motor idling and exits the garage , walsh provides the film’s greatest shot as he tracks her walking from the garage in a moment of horror and guilt as the doors close behind her , announcing the garage as a gas chamber for her unconscious spouse . in this scene , walsh gives us a femme fatale that is equally impulsive , real , and terrifying .
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once grant was cast , bringing up baby became the second of four films starring cary grant and katharine hepburn . their first was sylvia scarlett ( 1935 ) , followed by bringing up baby and holiday , which they started filming just eight days after baby premiered .
shorty lays down to sleep and the mother cat approaches him but the scene cuts off . later in the film molly and shorty are joined by the mysterious walter hoover ( ernest thesiger ) who states that he believes in shorty’s innocence . this is because hoover is the real killer and shorty suspects this . while they are talking , the mama cat appears at hoover’s feet .
i did not know that about night must fall ! it makes sense that there’s a personal connection behind it . i read a murder is arranged and thought it a bit bland , but nmf is electric stuff .
a loose adaptation of a . i . bezzerides’s terrific pulp novel long haul ( 1938 ) , about brothers hauling loads between los angeles and san francisco , the film was scripted by jerry wald and richard macaulay — the writing team behind the roaring twenties ( raoul walsh , 1939 ) and manpower ( raoul walsh , 1941 ) . wald would later co - produce a number of walsh’s movies at warner bros . including background to danger ( 1943 ) , objective , burma ! ( 1945 ) , and one sunday afternoon ( 1948 ) .
five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in devil ' s island so they can fight for occupied free french forces against the nazis .
david tries to make her understand that she is driving his car , but his efforts are useless , as we knew they would be .
susan is also upset that they hit the truck in the first place , though she neatly sidesteps any culpability . as she tells david :
susan hurries to tell david not to call the zoo–she doesn’t want them to take aunt elizabeth’s leopard away ! but she’s too late . the zoo’s staff is already out searching for baby , and david told them they can keep the cat if they find him ! oh dear !
dorothy arzner was the only woman director working in the hollywood film industry in the early 1940s ; her last film , first comes courage ( 1943 ) was a powerfully feminist production starring merle oberon as norwegian freedom fighter , working undercover . the film retains arzner’s individual stamp , although columbia took the film out of her hands as the end of production neared when she fell ill , and brought in director charles vidor to complete the project , who just three years later would score his biggest success with gilda ( 1946 ) . after first comes courage , columbia terminated arzner’s contract , and from 1943 to 1949 there was not a single film directed by a woman made in hollywood .
the theatrical trailer of classic raoul walsh ' s classic noir film with bogart and george raft . . . .
i love this film and am jealous of the quality of the copy you’ve got . mine is just awful .
they drive out to boopy’s house , but he’s asleep . so susan grabs a handful of pebbles and throws them at his bedroom window to wake him up . she doesn’t think the first flurry did it , so she grabs a bigger rock and hurls it towards the window , where it hits boopy right in the forehead . he’s knocked out , so david and susan hightail it out of there .
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in a jarring plot shift and performance , this film demonstrates the way that walsh often used his female actors to subvert his stories and genres by often taking them into much darker and complex places than anyone ( especially the men ) thought possible .
lvn is an acronym for the surnames of its three founders : narcisa buencamino vda de leon , carmen villongco , and eleuterio navoa , jr . tiongson writes , “the 1950s and early 1960s have been described by many writers as the golden age of the filipino film… [ because ] most of the films churned out by the big three studios of this period – sampaguita pictures , lvn , and premiere productions… achieved a higher level of technological expertise and artistry in filmmaking . ” nicanor tiongson , “the filipino film industry , ” east - west film journal 6 . 2 ( 1992 ) : 29 . [ ↩ ]
vivian sobchack , “lounge time : postwar crises and the chronotope of film noir” refiguring american film genres : history and theory ed . nick browne ( university of california press , 1998 ) 130 , 157 - 159 . [ ↩ ]
they had a great time offscreen , too . in her autobiography me : stories of my life , hepburn remembers in her typical blunt fashion how much fun she and grant had making bringing up baby : “cary was so funny on this picture . he was fatter , and at this point his boiling energy was at its peak . we would laugh from morning to night . ”
not wanted ( 1949 ) . credited to elmer clifton , but lupino directed all or virtually all of this film .
williams cast himself as the kind of guy he went for . as i trust you know night must fall was inspired by williams’s discovery that an ex - boyfriend had become a serial killer . his interest in the moors muders ( beyond belife is really something ) shows his interest in murderers didn’t wane . thus he’s somewhere between patricia highsmith and dennis cooper in literary iconography .
then the drivers from the circus arrive and ask for the constable’s help in tracking down their dangerous leopard . they’ve barely had time to tell their story when baby wanders in . the circus guys realize that baby isn’t the leopard they were transporting , which means that there are two different cats loose in connecticut !
the review aggregator rotten tomatoes reported that 94 % of critics gave the film a positive review , based on 17 reviews .
on dangerous ground ( 1952 ) . lupino directed certain scenes during director nicholas ray’s absence from the film due to illness .
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welles , orson ; bogdanovich , peter . this is orson welles . edited by jonathan rosenbaum . new york : da capo press , 1998 .
the director is raoul walsh , which is a bit of a mixed omen . although walsh was a fine craftsman , no studio ever gave him a really important project since the big trail in 1930 and nearly all his later pictures smack of potboiler . still , a good man with a bad movie . in they drive by night he keeps his camera close to the action to elicit a feeling of intensity and restlessness . he doesn’t over - emphasise interiors and doesn’t clutter shots with props or shadows , but still the atmosphere is cramped with the way actors all seem to huddle together , filling the frame . he uses wider , open shots for emphasis at important moments in the same way another director might use a close - up . still , the story lacks the free - spirited romanticism that inspired walsh’s most memorable moments .
susan , meanwhile , is upset that they had to pay for the birds that baby ate . she thinks they should have run away , instead . but david responds with these sage words : “when a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of the pond , he is in no position to run ! ”
susan and david have to cross a small stream to get to the animals , but susan assures david that it’s shallow , and they stride boldly across . but just two steps in , and the water is over their heads . susan sputters : “the riverbeds changed ! ” as they swim back to the bank .
many are the ads for player’s cigarettes in this film ! i won’t reproduce them all or you will be hypnotised into craving the smooth smoke doctors recommend , and i don’t want that on my conscience . the items offered by charlie’s include teas , you will note . for a hard - boiled crime drama , this film shows quite a lot of tea being drunk . it’s an odd effect .
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all i want to know is , how do movie companies come up with the title for movies ? give me a break - they drive by night - doesn ' t that sound like a movie about working class truck drivers , and their adventures on the road ? nothing could be further from the plot of this intense thriller . does it suggest a story about a demented killer ? does the name suggest that there will be dancing girls at the center of the story ? does it suggest that our killer will make the hairs on the back of our neck stand at attention when he is on the screen ? i got none of this from the name of the movie , but it holds all of this and more . i dare say that this is one of the finest thrillers to ever come out of the wonderful isle of britain - and it would have made suspense master hitchcock jealous if he watched it and knew that he didn ' t make this film .
david returns to mr . peabody and they try to restart their game . but david leaves the lawyer a second time when he sees susan attempting to drive off in his car ! i say “attempting” because she’s struggling to pull out of the parking space without demolishing the bumpers on david’s car and the one parked next to it . david yells , “i’ll be with you in a minute , mr . peabody ! ” and runs to the parking lot .
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has become a favorite bogart film by default ; it has been shown so often and has served as the prime source of material for countless satirists and impressionists it is the familiar tale of two young boys who grow up to be on opposing sides of the fieldone a gangster ( james cagney ) and the other a priest , ( pat o ' brien ) . the story was obviously sentimental its saving virtues were the performances by the leads , clever and suave , energetic direction by michael curtiz , and a good music score by max steiner bogart had little , and certainly nothing new , to do as he played cagney ' s lawyer - turned - nightclub - owner who double - crosses him
ida lupino , an earthy , intelligent movie actress who created a luminous gallery of worldly wise villainesses , gangster ' s molls and hand - wringing neurotics , died on thursday night at her home in burbank , calif . she was 77 years old .
ronnie scheib , “ida lupino : auteuress” , film comment , 16 ( january , 1980 ) , pp . 54 - 64 .
directing keeps you in a constant state of first - night nerves . … you may be terrified but you mustn’t show it on the set . nothing goes according to hoyle . … reshuffle your schedule . … keep your sense of humor , don’t panic . i sometimes wonder how anything gets on film . and yet , if i don’t work , it’s panic manor . ( 8 )
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the presence of warner brothers ( along with other american involvement in the industry at the time ) begins to account for this , but the film was also the product of a film industry that was unsure of its future audience as it approached the second world war .
crowther , bosley . the new york times , film review , july 27 , 1940 . last accessed : february 27 , 2011 .
if you don’t enjoy absurd , nonsensical exchanges like this one , you may not love this film…it’s basically 102 minutes of such screwiness .
my favorite part of this film is when susan says she was born on the side of a hill . i love your screenshots 🙂
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gogarty is understandably terrified and runs into the house babbling about a leopard . everyone assumes he is just drunk , but of course david and susan know better . they run to the barn to check on baby and are horrified when they see the empty stall . david tries to calm a hysterical susan , but it doesn’t work very well :
the doubling continues throughout the film : susan drives away with david riding on the running board twice , she steals two different cars , and the pair end up beneath a bedroom window at two different houses . there are two nearly identical purses , two confused phone calls with alice , two missed appointments with mr . peabody , and of course two leopards ! even miss swallow and susan could be considered doubles . they look alike , though they are the complete opposites in personality .
the leading role went to george raft , which was as good a way as any of sticking some gangland atmosphere into the picture . raft can’t act though , at least not very well , being at turns jittery and wooden – very much the poor man’s cagney . he should have gone into musicals like cagney did , as he was a very good dancer . raft is supported by humphrey bogart , who was at the time just on the cusp of becoming a major star , although no - one knew it at the time . it looks very odd to see him next to raft , a bit like spotting elvis presley in somebody’s backing band , since although he is rarely centre - stage he has fantastic presence , always on the verge of upstaging . they drive by night also features one of the earliest big parts for ida lupino , and i regret to say she is at her most hysterically bad . admittedly bits of her performance look ok , but to see the whole thing shows it to be very forced and calculated , lacking in any kind of natural flow .
well yes ! although that one’s a bit long for double - billing . at the eiff screening the audience staggered out , drained , looking older than when they went in .
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also known as : murder on the run warner brothers - first national productions starring : emlyn williams , ernest thesiger , anna konstam directed by : arthur b . woods
traipsing through the woods at night presents many opportunities for slapstick , and hawks and his stars hit them all . for example , susan gets whacked in the face by branches as she follows david through a thicket . when she asks if maybe she should go first , david answers chivalrously that she’d better not because she might get hurt . she thanks him and then takes a tremendous thwack in the face from branches he releases as he walks on .
according to tcm , this scene was inspired by a real - life incident . cary grant was at the metropolitan museum of art seated next to the manager of the museum and his wife in a theater . at one point , grant stood up to let the wife walk by . he noticed that his fly was unzipped , so he unobtrusively zipped it up just as the woman passed him . but he accidentally zipped part of her dress into his fly , and the zipper stuck ! grant and the woman had to walk in lockstep to the manager’s office to get some pliers . grant told hawks about the incident , and they added it to the film .
the review aggregator rotten tomatoes reported that 94 % of critics gave the film a positive review , based on 17 reviews .
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to the film ! on april 10 , 1937 , collier’s weekly published a short story by hagar wilde entitled “bringing up baby . ” ( oddly enough , “stage to lordsburg” the story upon which stagecoach ( 1939 ) was based , appeared in the same issue ! ) you can read wilde’s story here –it’s delightful .
it’s also intriguing because sometimes people i recommend it to today don’t “get it . ” they come back to me with confusion and faint exhaustion in their eyes , and say “it was just so weird . ” i think most of their reaction is due to the genre of the film . we don’t have screwball ( in the classical sense ) anymore , and bringing up baby is about as screwball as they come . so if you’re expecting a typical romantic comedy , this movie will knock you for a loop .
grabbing a bus out of london — the conductor is “billy hartnell” , future film star ( brighton rock ) and tv’s first dr . who — our emlyn winds up at the first of the film’s several transport cafes , where camp coffee is on offer but the long distance drivers inexplicably prefer tea . it was at “greasy spoons” like this that anthony “puffin” asquith , top film director and son of the prime minister , would moonlight , helping out in the kitchen in order to pick up truckers . emlyn is himself picked up by a trucker , and after numerous adventures , ends up — at another cafe .
as one might expect , the table’s occupant is bewildered by this stranger’s presence . but susan introduces herself without a hint of embarrassment . she isn’t constrained by society’s rules , and we like her for it . this is one way that the film sets up susan as miss swallow’s opposite . remember how miss swallow chastised david for using slang , and otherwise stretching the rules of polite society ? well , susan breaks more conventions than she upholds , and she has a wonderful time doing it .
a world war ii u - boat crew are stranded in northern canada . to avoid internment , they must make their way to the border and get into the still - neutral usa .
i love this scene because both susan and david get to be the heroes at different times . it’s not just david rescuing susan or the other way around . they’re a good pair .
lupino’s first production company was named emerald productions . ida lupino had been married from 1938 to 1945 to actor louis hayward , but , shortly after her divorce from hayward , lupino met and fell in love with production executive collier young , who was then working for columbia pictures . ida lupino and collier young were married in 1948 , and , shortly thereafter , lupino , young and anson bond ( owner of bond’s clothing ) formed emerald productions . shortly thereafter , bond decided that film production was too risky and his share of the partnership was bought out by screenwriter malvin wald . with this change in partnership , emerald productions became simply the filmakers , and ida lupino was ready to realize her dream as a director of theatrical motion pictures .
lucy ann stewart , ida lupino as a film director , 1949 - 1953 : an auteur approach ( new york : arno press , 1980 ) .
the adam’s rib connection is wonderful , thank you ! that makes the additions to wilde’s story make more sense . i’m glad you enjoyed my review ! thanks for stopping by !
susan and david eventually spot baby and george . the animals are wrestling in a clearing , but it appears to be a friendly bout . i’m not sure how they were able to film that scene with confidence , as it really is asta and nissa rolling around and pawing at each other . if nissa got mad…but everything turned out okay .
david says that he can’t wait to celebrate , but miss swallow crushes his hopes of a honeymoon . now that the intercostal clavicle has been found , she insists that they come straight back to the museum after they are married so that david can get on with his work . the completion of the brontosaurus is much too important to delay for such a minor event as their marriage .
he’s thinking ( he could be a model for rodin’s “the thinker” ) about where the bone in his hand fits in the skeleton . he’s called back to earth by the arrival of a telegram announcing some very happy news . the museum’s expedition in utah has finally found the brontosaurus’ intercostal clavicle ! david is thrilled because it’s the last bone they need to complete the fossil !
after being released from prison , notorious thief roy earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a california resort .
it is also worth noting that the hitch - hiker was made by lupino and the filmakers company after her divorce from collier young , and represents a return to the director’s chair after a two - year hiatus . though filming of the hitch - hiker went smoothly , and all seemed well on the surface ( collier young even appeared in a cameo within the film as a sleeping “mexican peon” ) , there is an atmosphere of real violence in the film – not only in the subject matter , but also in lupino’s relentless pacing , hyperkinetic camera set - ups , and her intense use of oppressive close - ups to heighten the film’s suspense .