Imagine you're a studio executive and it's 1961. The pitch comes in: How about a western directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart. Sound pretty good? Nah. Incredibly, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was a black-sheep project, made only because of Wayne's clout. Paramount declined to green-light the movie, even with its … [Read more...]
‘Man Hunt’: On the run with Fritz Lang
The filmmaker Fritz Lang found his way to Hollywood in the mid-1930s, having just fled Nazi Germany. After helming a few crime movies and westerns for Fox and MGM, he struck back at the Nazis with "Man Hunt," a 1941 thriller/film noir that opens with Adolph Hitler in the crosshairs of a rifle. "Man Hunt" flirted with violations of the U.S. … [Read more...]
YouTube puts premium on movies, TV
Google bought YouTube more than two years ago. Now the bill has arrived. YouTube's upcoming redesign will dump its current navigation scheme using "channels" and instead funnel viewers into more traditional categories such as "Movies," "Shows" (TV) and "Music." Looks like Google thinks amateur content, YouTube's lifeblood to date, isn't … [Read more...]
‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ on Blu-ray
A world filled with fear. Nations hopelessly divided, on the brink of war. Nuclear arms in the wrong hands, at the ready. Enter, from the skies, a starship bearing a savior, his robot and a promise of global peace via a fail-proof solution to war. Answered prayers? Certainly not in Hollywood's 1951, when the alien peacemaker, Klaatu, was duly … [Read more...]
‘Little Rascals’: The kids are all right, still
"The Little Rascals" was the original after-school special, seemingly on a local TV loop that ran every day of the week. Those kids and that dog were everywhere. The shorts looked old even in the 1950s and '60s, and the adults insisted on calling them "Our Gang" comedies, but no one seemed to mind: These inventive kids from the past always were … [Read more...]
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