“Alfred Hitchcock’s first Hollywood film is a sumptuous and suspenseful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s romantic novel.” Rebecca won two Academy Awards, Outstanding Production and Cinematography, out of a total 11 nominations. Olivier, Fontaine and Anderson were all Oscar nominated for their respective roles.
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema looks back at Hollywood’s golden age — when it was great, moral, and deeply talented. The Hollywood of today lives off the fumes of this golden era. Today’s Hollywood is incapable of the goodness displayed in this film.
Tonight’s film, “How Green Was My Valley”, is about the “majesty of plain people and the beauty which shines in the souls of simple, honest folk.”
Our cinema selection is Orson Welles masterpiece, The Trial. Welles said immediately after completing the film: “The Trial is the best film I have ever made.”
In light of today’s moronic “women’s marches” opposing what they cannot exactly say, I chose a film that regrettably is not free but should be mandatory viewing for every empty-headed woman who took part in the march today.
Anyone who thinks Hillary should have been President needs to see this film.
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, last Summer starring Elizabeth Taylor at the height of her powers. The star-studded cast includes Taylor’s great friend Montgomery Clift, Katherine Hepburn (who many adore, though she’s not my cuppa).
The script James Gunn has developed from the novel “The Philadelphian” by Richard Powell, is full of sound and some fury including sex, murder, drunkenness and double-dealing, which point up the picture of a city without much brotherly love.
“If I had my way, every fool who goes around with “Merry Christmas” on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart!” Ebenezer Scrooge:
Tonight’s Saturday Night cinema classic is Sudden fear starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. Joan Crawford won her third and last Oscar nomination for this tense noir thriller, featuring the underrated Jack Palance in a particularly scary performance.
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic Roberto Rossellini’s masterpiece “Viaggio in Italia,” Journey to Italy starring then wife Ingrid Bergman. Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) charts the declining marriage of a couple from England.
Brief Encounter remains one of the screen’s all-time most romantic films.
This ragged take on Othello may take liberties with the source material, but Orson Welles’ genius never fails to impress
The second of German director Paul Leni’s American films (Cat and the Canary was the first), The Man Who Laughs is a lavish adaptation of the novel by Victor Hugo.
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is the trailer for a little-known masterpiece: Ayn Rand’s We The Living. Regular cinephiles know that I run whole movies, but this movie is not online, and I think it is a monumental work. It is the best film adaption of any Ayn Rand work. The dialogue was taken almost verbatim…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is a tribute to the once great American ideal of free and fair elections, and a government by the people, of the people for the people. A quaint and archaic idea in today’s era of leftist totalitarianism, corruption and criminality. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is the story of one…
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Tonight’s Saturday night cinema selection is the French masterpiece, arguably the most famous and beloved film ever made in France. “Made during World War II in defiance of the collaborationist Vichy regime’s restrictions, and premiered in Paris a few months after the Liberation, ‘Children of Paradise’ came to be seen as a symbol of the…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s “curiously fascinating psychological study,” Black Narcissus. This is the last of the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger films that I can find online. I hope that The Red Shoes and I Know Where I’m Going are eventually made available online. I would love to…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is The Private Life Of Henry VIII, directed by the great Sir Alexander Korda and starring the supreme Charles Laughton. It is the first collaboration between Korda and Laughton, and it is marvelous. Laughton is a genius. he could play Flo in the Progressive commercials and make it compelling. His…
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Tonight I return to a much loved era of film-making — the golden age of British cinema. Regular Saturday Night cinemaphiles are well acquainted with my affection for British World War II and postwar cinema and most particularly the extraordinary British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger — known as The Archers. Their…
Something different this evening. I am departing from my usual love of film noir, golden Hollywood classics, foreign gems, etc., to screen something important. Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema must be seen by every American who intends to go the polls in November and cast his or her vote for the next President of the United…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is the desperate and heroic Dunkirk. A previous close shave when Britain exited from Europe. Perhaps one of the best British war films ever. A military catastrophe, in which the courage and determination of ordinary people save the British army from annihilation. John Mills at his best, playing a common man,…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema feature is the 1950 film noir crime drama, Night and the City, starring the impossibly beautiful Gene Tierney opposite the sweaty anti-hero, Richard Widmark, in one of his best performances. Jules Dassin’s Night and the City opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema feature, Gaslight, is a classic that you may think you know well, but you’d be wrong. Gaslight, you might say, “I know it quite well!” Ah yes, with Bergman and Boyer, but this adaptation of the stage play preceded the better-known version. Charles Boyer and Anton Walbrook are very different. Walbrook…
For tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection I return to my favorite genre, film noir, but this one is not set in the familiar setting of shadows and mean city streets. This one takes place in the suburbs. And it’s one of the really great films about infidelity (back when America was a moral nation). Pitfall…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is in keeping with our tribute to Memorial Day Weekend. The feature film tonight is Sergeant York, starring the moving and memorable Gary Cooper — an Oscar winner. Released only months before America’s entrance into WWII, Sergeant York brought director Howard Hawks his one and only Oscar nomination for Best Director….
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection is the classic British supernatural-comedy film, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square, starring the great raconteur Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. Firmly in the fantasy groove previously plowed by such films as The Canterville Ghost and The Time of Their Lives is the 1947 British comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square….
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is the thinking man’s thriller, “Cat People.” ” Influential noir director Jacques Tourneau infused this sexy, moody horror film with some “sly commentary about the psychology and the taboos of desire.” Watch Cat People 1942 in Entertainment Roger Ebert review: “Cat People” is constructed almost entirely out of fear. There…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema masterpiece is Roman Polanski’s Repulsion. Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. It is one of Roman Polanski’s most brilliant films: a deeply disturbing, horribly convincing psychological thriller that is also that rarest of things: a scary movie in which a…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is Roger Livesey’s tour de force film, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, made in the dark days of 1943. Called the “most wonderfully British movie ever made,” the movie looks past the fat, bald military man with the walrus moustache, and sees inside, to an idealist and a…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema feature is The Oscars, one of those bad ’60s movies we love to hate. Of course, I chose it as a tribute to tomorrow night’s “ceremonies.” It’s an appropriately cheesy pick, considering the garbage Hollywood churns out today. The NY Times’ Bosley Crowther moaned in his 1966 film review, “ANOTHER distressing…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is Brief Encounters, an intense, brilliant romance directed by David Lean and starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. “Sheer perfection-the gold standard of tragic romances whose influence can still be seen to this day.” “One of the most vivid, impassioned and painfully believable love stories ever committed to celluloid.” NYT: …
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema presentation is the 1948 adaption of Anna Karenina, starring the transcendent Vivian Leigh playing the iconic Anna. In this 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel, Vivien Leigh plays the title role, a 19th-century Russian gentlewoman married to Czarist official Ralph Richardson. Though her marriage is not intolerable, Anna is swept off…
I have an extraordinary treat for the first Saturday Night Cinema on 2016: All About Eve starring Bette Davis, who is fabulous. All About Eve is not only a brilliant and clever portrait of an actress; this comic drama is a funny film, witty and sharp. The crisp, sharp dialogue snaps, crackles and pops. “‘Fasten your…
In keeping with the holiday spirit, tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema classic is the 1951 film adaption of the Charles Dicken’s masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim. This is undoubtedly the best film ever made of the Dickens classic. And the one I think Dickins himself would have endorsed it. Turner Classic Movies: When Charles Dickens…
Tonight’s Saturday Night cinema feature is the Christmas classic, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. You didn’t think I would let the Christmas holiday go by without a proper cinematic tribute, did you? I don’t care how many times you’ve seen this holiday gem, it is always fresh, new, moving. It is the most well-loved…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection, The Siege, is extraordinary in that the subject matter is virtually nonexistent in Hollywood. It’s verboten. The overseers at MPAC wouldn’t have it. Denzel Washington stars in this taut suspense-thriller as the head of an FBI anti-terrorism unit who finds himself as the point man when a group of Islamic…
Tonight’s Saturday night feature is Conspiracy, an HBO film which dramatizes the 1942 Wannsee Conference. The film delves into the psychology of Nazi officials involved in the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” during World War II. It is an English-language adaptation of the German film The Wannsee Conference (1984), which is a must see…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is a little known but superb film noir gem, The Dark Corner, starring Mark Stevens and Lucille Ball. This grade-A example of “film noir” stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private detective business upon his release. Sour and surly, Galt behaves himself only when…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Classic feature is a pre-code little gem, The Kennel Murder Case, starring the sophisticated and clever, snappy and always stylishly turned out William Powell and the delicate beauty, “extraordinary grace and a compelling acting style” of Mary Astor. The Kennel Murder Case is “far and away the best of the Philo Vance…
Tonights Saturday Night Cinema selection is the tight little comedy, Storm in a Teacup. The New York Times review in 1937: It’s an ill wind, even in March, that blows no good, so it might have been all for the best that Alexander Korda experienced the recession. With his production wings clipped, he couldn’t very…
Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson. Go get the popcorn and the bubbly. Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is a masterpiece — it’s the film noir thriller directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. The brilliantly tense film was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection is film noir thriller, Witness to Murder. This suspense thriller has an all-star cast led by Barbara Stanwyck, the sharp and intimidating George Sanders, and Gary Merrill. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it’s good. And I love the stark black and white cinematography — the metaphorical use of shadow…
This is, by far, the best screen adaption of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery masterpiece. Ten people are trapped on a remote island, and they are killed off one by one. And Then There Were None is a 1945 film adaption of Agatha Christie’s best-selling mystery novel of the same name, directed by René Clair. The…
What a film. What a film! Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema is a masterpiece. It is as much a romance as it is a spy thriller. Under the sublime direction of Alfred Hitchcock, it features exquisite performances by Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude Rains in a romantic espionage story. The chemistry between Bergman and Grant…
As we embark on what promises to be the second coming of the Third Reich, what better to remind ourselves of what we face than a good old fashioned Hitchcock spy yarn? SECRET AGENT, as adapted from a play by Campbell Dixon which was based on W. Somerset Maugham’s “Ashenden” spy stories; screen play by…
Longtime Atlas readers know there are certain films that I would love to run but have not been able to find online. Tonight I have unearthed a copy of one of my favorite films — of all time. Rita Hayworth at her most beautiful, intense, sexy — Gilda. The first time I saw this, I…
Tonight’s Saturday Night Cinema selection is Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, and Jan Michael Vincent. I thought a war flick would be appropriate, seeing as that I couldn’t run what I really wanted to: Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney. It’s not available online — at least not for…
Battleship Potemkin is the classic masterpiece silent film from director Sergej Eisenstein from 1925. The film is based on the true events of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and was a masterful example of montage editing. Essential cinema! This film is indeed a knockout,…
Here’s a look at an America long gone. Patriotic, proud — a Hollywood giving all for the fight for freedom. It’s a shock to the system. Today we can expect mocking, hate and cynicism of the American ideals and principles. But this is glorious to watch — to imagine what was before the left took…
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