[3] January 3, 2012
Viewed today, Somebody Up There Likes Me [4] seems way ahead of its time. It’s easy to see how this Robert Wise production provided a road map for other fight movies. It also made Paul Newman a star.
[3] Viewed today, Somebody Up There Likes Me [4] seems way ahead of its time. It’s easy to see how this Robert Wise production provided a road map for other fight movies. It also made Paul Newman a star.
[6] The Robert Wise [7]-directed The Day the Earth Stood Still [8] was one of the best flying saucer films of the '50s and one of Wise's most prestigious works.
[10] It’s comforting to know that 30 years after their heyday, the madmen of Monty Python still have the power to offend and outrage. In The Meaning of Life [11], these Brit twits tweaked sacred cows so remorselessly that they still leave bruises.
[13] Robert Wise [7] was never an auteur in the sense that Hitchcock, Fellini and Bergman were auteurs. Instead, Wise was a Hollywood director-for-hire who could tackle just about any subject. Some of his movies are classics.
[15] Hollywood depictions of the afterlife range from the pious to the ludicrous. Weirdly enough, Albert Brooks’ [16] comedy Defending Your Life [17] rings truer than most.
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-somebody-there-likes-me-1956
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Paul+Newman%22+title:%22Somebody+Up+There+Likes+Me%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15687#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-day-earth-stood-still-1951
[7] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936404/
[8] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Michael+Rennie%22+title:%22The+Day+the+Earth+Stood+Still%22
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15629#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-monty-pythons-meaning-life-1983
[11] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Monty+Python%27s+The+Meaning+of+Life%22
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15627#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/robert-wise-film-series-introduction
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15724#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-defending-your-life-1991
[16] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000983/
[17] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22Defending+Your+Life%22
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15590#comment-form
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=30
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=27
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=28
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=29
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=32
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=33
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=34
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=35
[28] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41