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Letters at 3AM
Columns January 3, 2003
by Michael Ventura
Description: In 2002, cinema has been the healthiest of our arts. The movies' range and variety relieve what has otherwise been a bleak time for our culture and our Constitution.
"...Director Todd Haynes apparently thinks that upwardly mobile Americans of the 1950s believed in their era's forms and manners, relating to each other primly across vast distances of inner isolation. But watch the same class of people in well-done films of the time: the husband-wife relationship of Arthur Kennedy and Nancy Gates in Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running (1959); the acting (not the writing) of Mark Robson's Peyton Place (1957); the gradations of family relationships in Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind (1957) and Imitation of Life (1959) and in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955)..."
Some Came Running
Film Review July 15, 2002
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Of course we all recognize Vincente Minnelli (Mr. Judy Garland and father of Liza) as the quintessential maestro of the golden-age MGM musical (An American in Paris, Singin’ in the...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Vincente Minnenlli. Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Martha Hyer, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra..."
Video Reviews
Screens Review June 15, 2001
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Delmer Daves' A Summer Place is a juicy potboiler, oozing with angst over both young love and adultery.
"...D: Delmer Daves (1959); with Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Constance Ford, Arthur Kennedy...."
An American in Paris (1951)
Screens Story May 27, 1999
"...D: Raoul Walsh; with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, Sydney Greenstreet...."
In Order to Live
Screens Story May 27, 1999
"...D: Raoul Walsh; with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, Sydney Greenstreet...."
Ray of Light... and Dark
Screens Column November 7, 1997
by Margaret Moser
"...Other Nicholas Ray films running this weekend include Born to be Bad with Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan (TCM; 11/8; 7pm); Flying Leathernecks with Ryan and John Wayne (TCM; 8:45pm); and On Dangerous Groundwith Ida Lupino (TCM; 10:30pm) on Saturday. Sunday features The Lusty Men with Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward, and Arthur Kennedy (TCM; 11/9; 7pm) but it also runs what is often considered Ray's greatest film, 1955's Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo (TCM; 9pm)..."
Scanlines
Screens Story July 25, 1997
"...That, of course, created the charm many contemporary audiences and critics bemoan the absence of as they wistfully ponder a Now, Voyager or a Swing Time. But what about darker, more politically oriented classical Hollywood movies that passed themselves off as melodramas, or noirs, or Westerns --anything but what their displaced subject matter subtly articulated? Case in point is 1952's Western Rancho Notorious (D: Fritz Lang; with Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer), which for a first-time, contemporary viewer should do far more than raise eyebrows..."
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