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The Reason Why There’s NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH

Mar 20, 2019 0

There’s precisely one sequence in No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), St John Legh Clowes’ grisly gangster film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s novel, where the stars align and everything comes perfectly together. It happens […]

Redford scores with Peter Yates’ THE HOT ROCK

Mar 15, 2019 0

Two scenes tell you all you need to know about The Hot Rock, Peter Yates’ 1972 comedy caper. The first is when Robert Redford’s criminal team leader, John Dortmunder, convenes with explosives expert Allan Greenberg […]

Nathanael Hood’s Criterion Round-Up

Mar 11, 2019 0

There are few constants in life: death and taxes; the swelling and sighing of the tides; and the continual expansion of the Criterion Collection, perhaps the world’s greatest purveyor of boutique cinema releases. On a […]

Law and Order: THE SEVEN-UPS

Mar 6, 2019 0

It was a blessing and a curse for Philip D’Antoni. The producer of Bullitt (dir. Peter Yates, 1968) and The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin,1971), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture, […]

Can You Make It Through THE MAZE?

Feb 4, 2019 0

Executive producer Walter Mirisch was among the first to see the cinematic potential of Maurice Sandoz’s 1945 novel, “The Maze.” “The most interesting thing about the book,” he said, “was that it had been illustrated […]

The Good, The Bad and The Eli Wallach Show

Jan 30, 2019 0

Let’s get one thing out of the way here: I’ve never been a big fan of Westerns. Something about their stories just felt repetitive, so they never resonated with me growing up, or even once […]

“You’re Welcome Here Anytime” – Remembering Robert Osborne

by Jill Blake in Featured 5

by Jill Blake, Senior Editor Five years ago this May, I had the honor of sitting in on one of Robert Osborne’s shoots for TCM. I had recently attended a screening of Seven Brides for [...]