Tag Archives: Robert Mitchum

Because …

Posted on January 20, 2015 by sheila

He’s the best, that’s why. And this photograph is smokin’.

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Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 16: “Shadow”

Posted on April 20, 2014 by sheila

Directed by Kim Manners Written by Eric Kripke “Sam, this is bigger than you think.” – John Winchester said. I’ll say. Shadow is one of the rare urban-setting episodes, which always seems to bring out interesting romantic things in the … Continue reading →

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Seen Recently: Corman’s World (2011), Imitation of Life (1959), Viva Zapata! (1952), The Skin I Live In (2011), Undercurrent (1946)

Posted on July 8, 2013 by sheila

Corman’s World directed by Alex Stapleton A great documentary about Roger Corman whose low-budget productions in the 1960s/70s basically acted as film-school and film-experience for a generation of filmmakers who now run Hollywood. The stories are legendary, but here in … Continue reading →

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973); Dir. Peter Yates

Posted on October 21, 2010 by sheila

A.O. Scott reviews this bleak 1973 crime drama (which is really more of a thoughtful character study than anything else). The details in this film are exquisite, perfect: the cars, the sklyines, the empty bars, the Bruins game, the slush … Continue reading →

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Out of the Past: The Battle of the Under-Actors

Posted on April 21, 2010 by sheila

Excerpt from Lee Server’s Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care: Director and star proved to be ideally matched. In [Robert] Mitchum, [Jacques] Tourneur had found the most expressive embodiment of his own cinematic aesthetic of eloquent, subversive resistance and oneiric … Continue reading →

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“Chiiiiiiiiiiiiildren….”

Posted on June 20, 2008 by sheila

Post in praise of Robert Mitchum’s terrifying turn in Night of the Hunter. Charles Laughton deserves all the props he got for this magnificent film. Are you for real?

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Pitter …

Posted on March 20, 2007 by sheila

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River Of No Return

Posted on September 5, 2006 by sheila
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Out of the Past: Two Men Smoldering and Smoking at Each Other

Posted on July 23, 2004 by sheila

This week, for Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” column, he profiles Out of the Past, one of the all-time classic film noirs. I saw it for the first time when I was rehearsing for The Darkling Plain, a black-and-white modern-day noir … Continue reading →

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Night Of the Hunter: “Chiiiiiiiiildren…”

Posted on April 4, 2004 by sheila

Watched Night of the Hunter this morning, this dark rainy morning. Is there a film more packed full of arrestingly beautiful and terrifying shots? The black silhouette of the farmhouse – against the white white sky … with the two … Continue reading →

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