Robert Montgomery’s 1947 sophomore film, Ride the Pink Horse is an exciting film noir gem ripe for rediscovery, available on Blu-ray for the first time courtesy of Criterion’s digital restoration. Best known as a comedic actor and Oscar nominated for roles in Night Must Fall (1937) and Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Montgomery would eventually direct a handful of titles mostly neglected by the passage of time with the exception of his first directorial credit, the experimental noir Lady in the Lake (as the film is presented entirely from the point of view of its protagonist, as if we’re looking directly through his eyes), an adaptation of a Raymond Chandler novel. Lady premiered earlier in the very same year, and though it is often referenced for its structural technique, it’s his follow-up title that’s more impressive, as unique and off kilter as its enigmatic title.
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- 3/17/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Monday was International Women's Days, and to mark the occasion, Sight & Sound complied a list of "vital female voice(s) in film criticism":"Cinema would be a very different place without seminal figures like Iris Barry, Pauline Kael, Laura Mulvey and Susan Sontag. This collection is a reminder of their importance but it also looks beyond them too. Asking 25 writers and curators to each nominate a female critic and choose a piece of their writing has amassed a surprising array of different voices: from 1920s teenage gossip columnist Nerina Shute to the first regular broadsheet female film reviewer C.A. Lejeune, Sight & Sound’s august editor of 34 years Penelope Houston, zombie-loving trade reviewer Marjorie Bilbow and the feminist activist and author bell hooks, as well as unlikely cinema analysts like novelist Hilary Mantel."Also of note, the April issue of Sight & Sound is out now. The selection team that will...
- 3/11/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Los Angeles, April 11: Hollywood producer and studio executive Raymond Wagner has died aged 88. Though he passed away March 12, his family announced his death only now.
The producer passed away from natural causes, and his family announced the news Thursday, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Wagner began his career as a producer in the early 1960s, working on small screen pilots and "The Hanged Man".
He produced films like "Petulia" (1968), "Turner and Hooch" (1989) and "Run" (1991). His other credits include Chuck Norris's "Code of Silence" (1985), Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds's "Rent-a-Cop" (1987) and "Snow Day with Chevy Chase" in 2000.
Wagner was also famous for hiring former actress Sherry Lansing, who he.
The producer passed away from natural causes, and his family announced the news Thursday, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Wagner began his career as a producer in the early 1960s, working on small screen pilots and "The Hanged Man".
He produced films like "Petulia" (1968), "Turner and Hooch" (1989) and "Run" (1991). His other credits include Chuck Norris's "Code of Silence" (1985), Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds's "Rent-a-Cop" (1987) and "Snow Day with Chevy Chase" in 2000.
Wagner was also famous for hiring former actress Sherry Lansing, who he.
- 4/11/2014
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Raymond Wagner, an executive at MGM and Universal who produced several notable films and hired future studio head Sherry Lansing to read scripts for $5 an hour in the 1970s, has died. He was 88. Wagner, who produced such films as director Richard Lester's Petulia (1968) and the Tom Hanks cop comedy Turner & Hooch (1989), died March 12 of natural causes in Westwood, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. In the early 1960s, Wagner headed television pilots for Universal Studios, where he produced the Don Siegel-directed The Hanged Man (1964), starring Robert Culp. It is
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- 4/10/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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