Star of British film thrillers who specialised in the role of the classy girlfriend
In the 1950s, while watching a second feature before the "big picture" at their local cinema, regular British filmgoers would often have seen Rona Anderson, who has died aged 86. Anderson starred in 20 movies between 1950 and 1958, mostly well-crafted, low-budget thrillers. Opposite such luminaries as Robert Beatty, Jimmy Hanley, John Bentley, Paul Carpenter and Lee Patterson, Anderson was the classy girlfriend who helps the hero solve a murder, usually via a visit to the criminal underground, all within the hour allotted to the film.
According to the Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter, Anderson "had this incredible, porcelain-like face, too beautiful for film … The camera likes angularity, to see the edges, and I think Rona's face was just too perfect." Whatever the reason, Anderson made few major movies, though she appeared in many popular television series, such as The Human Jungle...
In the 1950s, while watching a second feature before the "big picture" at their local cinema, regular British filmgoers would often have seen Rona Anderson, who has died aged 86. Anderson starred in 20 movies between 1950 and 1958, mostly well-crafted, low-budget thrillers. Opposite such luminaries as Robert Beatty, Jimmy Hanley, John Bentley, Paul Carpenter and Lee Patterson, Anderson was the classy girlfriend who helps the hero solve a murder, usually via a visit to the criminal underground, all within the hour allotted to the film.
According to the Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter, Anderson "had this incredible, porcelain-like face, too beautiful for film … The camera likes angularity, to see the edges, and I think Rona's face was just too perfect." Whatever the reason, Anderson made few major movies, though she appeared in many popular television series, such as The Human Jungle...
- 8/9/2013
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
The films of the Cannes 2013 official competition will be arriving to Mexican cinemas little by little. It's very likely that we won't get to see some of them until next year (or maybe just on Blu-Ray), but for now the company Mantarraya, through its distribution division Nd Mantarraya, has confirmed the release date for Amat Escalante's third feature film Heli, which is Mantarraya's own production and the only Mexican film selected this year for competition. Heli will open in Mexico on August 9, almost three months after its Cannes premiere, with just 25 copies. Days before the premiere, Brian Clark said here the following: "The current corruption-fueled landscape of many towns in modern Mexico, with violent drug cartels and human trafficking responsible for most of...
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- 6/21/2013
- Screen Anarchy
I'm with our own Brian Clark -- as far as it goes, Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man isn't terrible so much as painfully slight. You could come up with less inspired ideas than rebooting a film franchise that's only a decade old, but just barely. And gifted with a terrific cast and rafts of money, 500 Days of Summer director Webb (and writer James Vanderbilt, Zodiac) chose to reinvent hard-luck hero Peter Parker as a painfully mopey, moody teen -- one who's in parts cruel, capricious, and selfish while never really nailing any sort of message about the character. "With great power comes great responsibility" becomes smoothed away to "you're my hero, Peter." Again, Mr. Clark considers the movie: Jammed in-between it all are Parker's parent-issues...
- 11/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
S&Man PosterS&Man is a documentary by director J.T. Petty on the a world that most of us do not see - voyeurism and victimization. People on the street are unwittingly made to be part of film and the results are rarely pretty. This picture will be released by Magnolia Pictures October 12th on DVD; a trailer for the feature is below.
In the spirit of creativity and proper grammar, this article will provide viewers with a free lesson on passive and active sentence structure. You can save yourself hundreds of dollars for tuition by reading this comparison between two very different synopses on S&Man. The first synopsis will have the many passive sentence structures pointed out, with the second showing active. Please, when writing anything e.g. letters, essays, synopses, remember to primarily use active sentence structure. Now let the lesson begin.
The first synopsis for the film is here,...
In the spirit of creativity and proper grammar, this article will provide viewers with a free lesson on passive and active sentence structure. You can save yourself hundreds of dollars for tuition by reading this comparison between two very different synopses on S&Man. The first synopsis will have the many passive sentence structures pointed out, with the second showing active. Please, when writing anything e.g. letters, essays, synopses, remember to primarily use active sentence structure. Now let the lesson begin.
The first synopsis for the film is here,...
- 10/1/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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