Ernest Borgnine, R.I.P.
Like everyone else, I was saddened to learn of the death of Ernest Borgnine at the age of 95 yesterday. An amazingly versatile actor, Borgnine worked right up to the end. In the fall of 2010, he...
View Article‘Rear Window’: Alfred Hitchcock’s most entertaining film?
When the much-discussed, once-a-decade Sight and Sound film poll recently named “Vertigo” the greatest movie in history, I wasn’t as distressed as some people by the fact that the 1958 James Stewart-...
View ArticleUnderrated performance: Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren
The mixed-to-negative reviews and a higher profile Alfred Hitchcock biopic released within the same month, kept me from checking out the 2012 HBO/BBC film “The Girl” until the other night. It’s...
View ArticleBehind the scenes of the Texas epic ‘Giant’
In a neat, unexpected bit of synergy Don Graham’s book – “Giant” (St. Martin’s Press) – about the making of the 1956 George Stevens epic has been published just a week before our Hearst movie club...
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