The Projection Room is now in the building, in the back of the back of the backoffice, that is where you'll find the party action at, and we have streamers and plenty of empty calorie snacks to go around for your sustenance. And here you won't mind who sits next to you on the couch I promise.
Another all time great for your viewing pleasure in TPR - The Big Knife (1955) In a similar vein as Sunset Boulevard - this being a far less subtle satire on the perils of Hollywood stardom. Jack Palance is Charlie Castle, an inebriated film star flustered with his career, who just really wants out. Rod Steiger absolutely priceless here as the megalomaniac studio boss who will go at all lengths to stop him. Director Robert Aldrich as per-allowed his actors complete rein with the histrionic script that's from a Clifford Odets play - while Ernest Laszlo's delirious lens adds even more anguish to its heady mix
An RKO Radio ruby with Raymond Burr is now on the Projection cooker, and one of the most supernal shutterbugs of our time - Nicholas Musuraca was the man behind the atmosphere in this . And this film experienced more than its fair share of red-tape. And that call came courtesy of Howard Hughes, he was not best pleased when he saw the original cut
and implored them to alter it. But the result is the result and it doesn't shirk in the effectuality department, that's for sure. The Whip Hand (1951) directed by William Cameron Menzies.
Enter my speakeasy , there is never any such ishkabbible in here, and ain't we got fun in the mornng in the evening, we are open all the while! Hot Dawg! And some pre-code prime with 1931's Bad Girl tonight and you know you are in for one helluva optical odyssey - it's a Frank Borzage beaut starring James Dunn and Sally Eilers who got her first proper break in this picksha.
Now this is some serious televisual manna - produced by the Paulist Priests beginning in the year 1961, Insight featured some heavyweight actors, some before they were worthy of those honors and some already established. These little half-hour character studies would air in the wee Sunday hours of morn and were intended to enlighten. Martin Sheen and John Astin and his missus Patty Duke were was cast in quite a few episodes of this inspirational series and they remain some of their finest works. When it was syndicated I remember waiting up until 6 in the morning just to catch these and like myself, they may just have you on those grooviest of intros, alone! The episode you are about to see was helmed by someone who also helmed quite a few of our Friday Night mysterionics - Seymour Robbie and it starts the two Astins - it orginally aired on April 30, 1974 -The One-Armed Man
And now it is time for a most peculiar pelicula, El asesino está entre los trece (1973)
Or if you like ingles style - The Killer Is One of Thirteen, a Spanish giallo film inspired
by the likes of Castle and Hitchcock, or is that Hitchle and Cascock? and starring just about everyone that was hip and happenin' heyday-wise from contemporaneous cinema of Spain. Javier Aguirre who stamped his directors stamp on nearly ninety productions is the one in the high chair here and it's
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Seven Up! was originally intended as a one-time production, with no specific plans of reprising. However, Royal appointed Michael Apted, in 1971, a researcher during the series maiden voyage, would step in and assume directorial duties - hence the show went on. These dozen plus subjects would be revisited for more poignant productions. Here they are in their respective thirty-fifth year - I give you - 35 Up by the apt apt Michael Apted
Now time for a little rare-form theater for our 4 O'clock afternoon presentation. It's millennial, 2006 to be precise and Chevy Chase stars? Are you sure this is the right channel? There are enough idiosyncratic sorts to make this work. And the score is actually by Moriccone, well actually it is by Andrea, Ennio's son.
Starters today is one of the all-time greats featuring an all-time great, Mr. Lee Marvin. And yes all the rumors were true he was a cantankerous get but he had a nurturing nature too this I swear. Just keep him about a good hundred miles away from James Garner at all times and everything will be fine. Now one thing his contemporaries and not so contemporaries concurred about was his conviction to the craft and you can surely see that here in 1955's Violent Saturday this feature flourishes in all its CinemaScope glory and it was directed by the son of one of the Fleischer Brothers (Max that is) Richard Fleischer. And hearing the name Victor Mature never gets old - and he helps up the ante of this crime meridian.
