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Tag Archives: King Creole
Podcast: Watch With Jen: Let’s talk about Elvis!
Well, THIS was a blast. Jen Johans had me onto her excellent podcast again to talk about 5 Elvis movies of my choosing! I picked: King Creole, Flaming Star, Girl Happy, Live a Little Love a Little and The Trouble … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Movies
Tagged Elvis Presley, King Creole, Live a Little Love a Little, podcast
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August 2023 Viewing Diary
Oppenheimer (2023; d. Christopher Nolan) In general, I am not a Nolan fan (the only one of his I liked was Dunkirk), and I went into this hesitantly because I read an interview with him where he said the whole … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies
Tagged animation, biopic, children's movies, coming of age, crime movies, drama, Elvis Presley, England, France, heist movies, horror, Kentucker Audley, King Creole, Michael Curtiz, Michael Mann, romantic drama, Sidney Lumet, South Korea, westerns, women directors
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Criterion Channel: Coming in July
7 Elvis movies! More to come.
Posted in Movies
Tagged Elvis Presley, King Creole, Love Me Tender, Viva Las Vegas, Wild in the Country
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Stuff I’ve Been Reading
— The great Wesley Morris with another slam-dunk, a piece I wish I had thought to write. But that’s why I love him so much: he writes stuff I’ve felt, in an inchoate unformed way, and he puts words to … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books, Directors, Movies
Tagged Elvis Presley, Germany, Jean Renoir, King Creole, Michael Curtiz, stuff I've been reading
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For Film Comment: Elvis, Actor
I am so happy to sing the praises for Film Comment‘s TCM Diary of an acting career that has been ignored, dismissed, scorned, from the jump. I’ve written about Elvis’ acting a lot here on my site, but rarely anywhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis Presley, Errol Flynn, Hal Wallis, King Creole, Live a Little Love a Little, Love Me Tender, Mildred Dunnock, reviews, Viva Las Vegas
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King Creole (1958): The Dreamspace of “New Orleans”
Young Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) in King Creole (1958) is a high school flunky a couple times over (“I’m not going back to school. Before you know it, I’ll be a freshman again”), working jobs as a busboy in seedy … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis Presley, King Creole, Michael Curtiz, musicals, Sam Phillips
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A QA with Jeremy Richey about Elvis Presley As An Actor
Jeremy Richey’s site Moon in the Gutter has been an almost-daily pitstop for me ever since I discovered it years ago. He approaches his topics with passion and enthusiasm, and reminds me of one of those buttons on Facebook that … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis Presley, interviews, King Creole, Live a Little Love a Little, Michael Curtiz, Tuesday Weld, Wild in the Country
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Review: HBO’s God Is the Bigger Elvis
Mother Prioress Dolores Hart today With her leading man, 1957 The Oscar-nominated documentary God is the Bigger Elvis aired on HBO last night. My review is now up at Press Play.
God is the Bigger Elvis (2012)
This piece originally appeared on Press Play. Mother Prioress Dolores Hart describes her first night in the Regina Laudis Abbey, after taking her vows as a novice in the Benedictine order: “The first night I felt like I had jumped … Continue reading
Elvy and Valty
Elvis Presley, Walter Matthau, Carolyn Jones, “King Creole” Walter Matthau in a BBC interview on working with Elvis Presley in the Michael Curtiz-directed King Creole (Curtiz famously had an incomprehensible Hungarian accent): I almost hesitate, I creep up to the … Continue reading