[3] January 14, 2013
Tom Jones [4], based on Henry Fielding’s picaresque comedy of 18th-century manners, is proof that a miserable, unhappy set can produce a movie that earns millions and wins Academy Awards.
[3] Tom Jones [4], based on Henry Fielding’s picaresque comedy of 18th-century manners, is proof that a miserable, unhappy set can produce a movie that earns millions and wins Academy Awards.
[6] Kansas City Confidential [7] is one of those minor B movie masterpieces, crammed with tough guys, a noirish aura of desperation and greed, and featuring a surprisingly complex script.
[9] Viewed today, Martin Ritt’s Hud [10] isn’t the electrifying experience that greeted audiences in 1963. Back when the social and cultural blinders of the Eisenhower years were still in place, it was an incendiary movie.
[12] For years it was accepted that Evan S. Connell’s novels were unfilmable. But the unshowy approach of the 1990 film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge [13] nicely approximates the experience of reading the book.
[15] Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, Sidney Poitier was pretty much the only African American leading man in Hollywood. With Lilies of the Field [16] he became the first African American man to win the Oscar for best actor.
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-tom-jones-1963
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057590/
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19294#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-kansas-city-confidential-1952
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Phil+Karlson%22+title:%22Kansas+City+Confidential%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19229#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-hud-1963
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Larry+McMurtry%22+title:%22Hud%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-hud-1963#comments
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-mr-and-mrs-bridge-1990
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Paul+Newman%22+title:%22Mr.+Mrs.+Bridge%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19201#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-lilies-field-1963
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Sidney+Poitier%22+title:%22Lilies+of+the+Field%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/19184#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=6
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=3
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=4
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=5
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=8
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=9
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=10
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=11
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41