Category: Saturday Night Cinema

“The time of our story is any time, the place any place where human hearts respond to love and hate, pity and terror.”

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Made with obvious affection for the original, Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein is a riotously funny spoof featuring a fantastic performance by Gene Wilder.

In the wake of today’s vote for now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is the obvious choice.

‘Bubbly and effervescent Alfred Hitchcock romantic-suspenser that finds the Master in a relaxed and purely entertaining mood.

it’s all quite beautiful, combining romance, comedy, suspense and a sense of the supernatural to winning effect.

“Hester Street” tells of the comic and painful Americanization of Jake and Gitl, an immigrant couple from Russia.

“The last of Otto Preminger’s studio pictures at Fox, this 1950 feature has many of the noirish qualities of his Laura and Fallen Angel: Dana Andrews, ambiguity about the characters’ dark undertones, and a fluid, fascinating mise en scene.”

François Truffaut once called Night and Fog “the greatest film ever made.”

This film is, by far, the very best version of Ayn Rand’s work.

It is the greatest Shakespearean film ever.

Robert Aldrich’s “annihilating masterpiece, one of the decade’s key works.”

“This may be the most magnificent performance in Richard Burton’s career, and will definitely please all fans of rotting charm.”

George Cukor’s perfectly mannered direction confidently guides this brooding and cynical film noir that is considered by many the highlight of actor Ronald Colman’s great career

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is Arthur Miller’s shattering drama, Death of a Salesman, produced by Stanley Kramer.

Laughton gives one of his most subtle, controlled performances as a basically good man who turns murderous.

Memorial Day weekend deserves a great war movie.

“Listen, little girl, you don’t know nothing ’bout the Candy Man — he’ll have you crawling on all fours and howling like a dog!”

“What she wanted out of life… she got out of men!” Arlene Dahl is a sizzling sensation as Kathleen Allen, a woman who learns early that sex is how she’ll get ahead in the world.

Tonight Saturday Night Cinema classic in the film noir masterpiece,”White Heat.” Brilliant direction and visual style.

Hollywood today applauds appeasement, capitulation and America-hating. This film doesn’t, and it’s grand.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is another masterpiece and Geller favorite, The Red Shoes.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is the timeless masterpiece from Geller’s favorite directer Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire. It’s Brando at his most intense and brilliant and Vivian Leigh,who “tipped her into madness”, gave the best performance of her life earning her a second Academy Award for Best Actress.

“1951’s ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’ is a triumph of cinematic art.”

Here is something you don’t see every day, Marlon Brando as Napoleon Bonaparte. Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema feature is Desiree, starring the intense Brando and the luminescent Jean Simmons, and Merle Oberon, who is a bit too long in the tooth to be playing Josephine.

Tonight’s Saturday night cinema classic is in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance day, Schindler’s List. I tried to find it online for free, but alas. It was not to be. So pay the $2.99. NY Times: Review/Film: Schindler’s List; Imagining the Holocaust to Remember It By JANET MASLIN Published: December 15, 1993 There is a…

Tonight’s Saturday night cinema selection is a 1951 crime film noir, The Fat Man.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale about a cursed family.

An Affair to Remember is considered one of the great romantic films of all time.

Ernst Lubitsch’s most melancholic work, where he portends an approaching European war by, for the first time, not filming his character’s words but the empty spaces between those words.

As Sister Benedict, Ingrid Bergman combines beauty, great good humor and saintly dignity “even while swinging a baseball bat.”

“Aldrich’s annihilating masterpiece, one of the decade’s key works.”

When “Night of the Living Dead” opened in 1968, mostly in grindhouse theaters, Vincent Canby of The New York Times dismissed it in a three-sentence review as “a grainy little movie acted by what appear to be nonprofessional actors, who are besieged in a farmhouse by some other nonprofessional actors who stagger around, stiff-legged, pretending to be flesh-eating ghouls.”

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is AFDI’s new motion picture, “Can’t We Talk About This?”

In light of Monday’s terrible anniversary of the September 11th jihad attacks, tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema feature is the AFDI’s historic and acclaimed documentary, The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema feature is the Alfred Hitchcock film, Young and Innocent (aka The Girl was Young). Though not well known, this early work is “breezy, romantic Hitchcock; an underrated gem.”

An interesting attempt to break away from stereotype epic. Heston plays the war lord in 11th century Normandy who finds that the land he controls is steeped in primitive tradition. The rituals of pagan mythology are well observed – cabalistic idols, sacrifices – as is Heston’s disintegration in the face of a mental force that he can’t understand.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema feature is an homage to the “sensual, gravel-voiced actress who became the face of the New Wave, France’s iconoclastic mid-20th-century film movement,” Jeanne Moreau who passed away at the age of 89 this week. Journalists liked to call her the thinking moviegoer’s femme fatale.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is a British 1965 Eastman Color war film directed by Anthony Mann, Heroes of Telemark, staring the great Kirk Douglas, this time as a 20th Century Viking in a portrayal of the true story of the desperate efforts to prevent the Nazis from developing an Atomic bomb

Watch it — it is a France that is no more.

The State Department is has long been compromised — State Department careerists work for the countries they are assigned to, not to America, and that’s the problem. The State Department is the problem. We need patriots and freedom lovers in state craft, not Muslim Brotherhood lackeys.

Following up on last week’s brilliant true crime drama Boomerang, tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection is the 1948 docu-noir movie crime drama, Call Northside 777, starring the indefatigable Jimmy Stewart.

In light of the bloody Islamic war being waged in the Philippines, tonight’s Saturday Night feature is The Real Glory, a 1939 Samuel Goldwyn Productions action film starring quintessential American hero and Ayn Rand archetype Gary Cooper, David Niven and Andrea Leeds.

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh look gorgeous but it’s Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth who steals the show

Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered the years as one of MGM’s finest examples of pure storytelling.

“We can’t do such violence to our hearts and minds.”

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection lightens things up a bit with a good rom-com, Indiscreet. This film stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard.

“The first film version of Patrick Hamilton’s stage play about a Victorian criminal who tries to drive his wife mad in order to prevent her from discovering his guilty secret while he searches their house for a stash of precious rubies. Nothing like as lavish as the later MGM version with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, but in its own small-scale way a superior film by far. Lurking menace hangs in the air like a fog, the atmosphere is electric, and Wynyard suffers exquisitely as she struggles to keep dementia at bay.

Intelligence applied exactly where it is most rare: in the lavish, star-studded epic. Otto Preminger’s 1960 film, based on the Leon Uris novel, makes fine use of dovetailed points of view in describing the birth pains of Israel. With Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Peter Lawford, Ralph Richardson, Sal Mineo, Lee J. Cobb, Alexandra Stewart, and John Derek.

Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic, Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious is a masterpiece of suspense, love, mystery and seduction.