[3] January 2, 2013
Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, Sidney Poitier was pretty much the only African American leading man in Hollywood. With Lilies of the Field [4] he became the first African American man to win the Oscar for best actor.
[3] Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, Sidney Poitier was pretty much the only African American leading man in Hollywood. With Lilies of the Field [4] he became the first African American man to win the Oscar for best actor.
[6] For those of you who don’t like horror movies, who have become weary of the usual clichés, here’s some blessed relief. It’s called The Cabin in the Woods [7] and it is terrific.
[9] Perhaps Charles Dickens was writing musicals and didn’t realize it. Scrooge [10] has all the hallmarks of musical theater - emotional catharsis, bigger-than-life characters, and innate moral sense.
[12] It’s a testament to the evenhandedness of The Queen of Versailles [13] that you don’t end up hating its money-centric subjects. But it does raise a troubling question: Does having too much money make you dumb?
[15] Is Scrooged [16] (1988) a Dickens movie or a Bill Murray movie? A bit of both, actually. If the tale’s overall arc is familiar, some of the details are delightfully oddball.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-lilies-field-1963
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Sidney+Poitier%22+title:%22Lilies+of+the+Field%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19184#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-cabin-woods-2011
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Drew+Goddard%22+title:%22Cabin+in+the+Woods%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19163#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-scrooge-1970
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Albert+Finney%22+title:%22Scrooge%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19161#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-queen-versailles-2012
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Lauren+Greenfield%22+title:%22Queen+of+Versailles%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19141#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-scrooged-1988
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Bill+Murray%22+title:%22Scrooged%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19047#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=7
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=4
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=5
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=6
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=9
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=10
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=11
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=12
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=61