Sunday, August 13, 2023

Recent discovery: West 11

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Director Michael Winner’s melancholy  noir  entry quietly smolders amid an atmosphere of casual debauchery enhanced by Otto Heller’s gorgeou...
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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Recent discovery: Sapphire

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The British were decades ahead of us, with films that thoughtfully explored race relations; 1959’s  Sapphire  is an excellent example. Direc...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

Blast from the Past: Las Vegas Beat

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Plenty of television pilots failed to attract network interest, over the years — for which we can be grateful, in many cases — but this prob...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Blasts from the past: Obscure nuggets

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The television component of my two-volume series focuses on shows that successfully landed on network schedules … if only for a month or two...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Recent discovery: Dino

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Talk about being lucky enough to hit the ground running: Composer Gerald Fried’s first three big-screen assignments were for Stanley Kubrick...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

The beat goes on: Confess, Fletch

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One would assume, given a soundtrack album laden with iconic classics by Horace Silver, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon and many others, that this...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

The Beat Goes On: See How They Run

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This film is a total hoot, and Daniel Pemberton’s fizzy score has much to do with the merriment. Director Tom George’s mischievous period “w...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

The beat goes on: The Duke

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On the very early morning of August 21, 1961, somebody broke into London’s National Gallery and stole Francisco Goya’s painting, “Portrait o...