Nehemiah Persoff, who appeared as Barbra Streisand’s rabbi father in “Yentl” and had roles in hundreds of films and TV series including “Some Like It Hot” and “Twins,” died Tuesday in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He was 102.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Dahlia Reano. Beyond prolific, Persoff racked up almost 200 credits in film and TV in a career that began in the very earliest days of television.
Persoff broke through in the 1959 movie “Some Like It Hot,” in which he played mobster boss Little Bonaparte. (The actor had been the last surviving member of the cast.) Early in his career, he was known for playing villainous tough guys, such as in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man,” starring Henry Fonda, and “Al Capone,” starring Rod Steiger, in which he had a substantial role as Johnny Torrio, the mobster who mentored Capone only to be replaced by him.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Dahlia Reano. Beyond prolific, Persoff racked up almost 200 credits in film and TV in a career that began in the very earliest days of television.
Persoff broke through in the 1959 movie “Some Like It Hot,” in which he played mobster boss Little Bonaparte. (The actor had been the last surviving member of the cast.) Early in his career, he was known for playing villainous tough guys, such as in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man,” starring Henry Fonda, and “Al Capone,” starring Rod Steiger, in which he had a substantial role as Johnny Torrio, the mobster who mentored Capone only to be replaced by him.
- 4/6/2022
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
On paper it’s a western with everything — a major star, decent supporting players, a cult director and sideways references to the blacklisting years. But even with its ya-gotta-see-it-to-believe-it high noon showdown scene, Joseph H. Lewis’s last feature film is still a lower-tier United Artists effort. Sterling Hayden goes up against Sebastian Cabot and Nedrick Young, armed with a, with a . . . aw, you probably know already.
Terror in a Texas Town
Blu-ray
Arrow Academy
1958 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 80 min. / Street Date July 11, 2017 / Available from Arrow Video / 39.95
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Martin, Nedrick Young, Victor Millan, Frank Ferguson, Marilee Earle, Byron Foulger, Glenn Strange.
Cinematography: Ray Rennahan
Original Music: Gerald Fried
Written by Dalton Trumbo, fronted by Ben Perry
Produced by Frank N. Seltzer
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Auteurists in the early 1970s championed directors like Phil Karlson, Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann. These stylists...
Terror in a Texas Town
Blu-ray
Arrow Academy
1958 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 80 min. / Street Date July 11, 2017 / Available from Arrow Video / 39.95
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Martin, Nedrick Young, Victor Millan, Frank Ferguson, Marilee Earle, Byron Foulger, Glenn Strange.
Cinematography: Ray Rennahan
Original Music: Gerald Fried
Written by Dalton Trumbo, fronted by Ben Perry
Produced by Frank N. Seltzer
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Auteurists in the early 1970s championed directors like Phil Karlson, Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann. These stylists...
- 7/26/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
We return with a catch up about upcoming MoC releases, Criterion UK and a look at Andre de Toth’s Day of the Outlaw. Enjoy!
From Masters of Cinema:
Revered by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, the great director Andre de Toth made some of the most gripping and unusual American films of the 1950s, and Day of the Outlaw stands as one of his finest.
Robert Ryan plays the ruthless cattleman Blaise Starrett who rides into the small, snowbound town of Bitters to settle a feud with homesteader Hal Crane (Alan Marshal) over access to land, with one eye on rekindling a past love affair with Crane’s wife Helen (Tina Stuart). But once a band of brutal outlaws, led by the notorious Captain Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives), enters and takes the townspeople hostage, the situation becomes a powder keg ready to blow.
Set against extraordinary winter landscapes,...
From Masters of Cinema:
Revered by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, the great director Andre de Toth made some of the most gripping and unusual American films of the 1950s, and Day of the Outlaw stands as one of his finest.
Robert Ryan plays the ruthless cattleman Blaise Starrett who rides into the small, snowbound town of Bitters to settle a feud with homesteader Hal Crane (Alan Marshal) over access to land, with one eye on rekindling a past love affair with Crane’s wife Helen (Tina Stuart). But once a band of brutal outlaws, led by the notorious Captain Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives), enters and takes the townspeople hostage, the situation becomes a powder keg ready to blow.
Set against extraordinary winter landscapes,...
- 5/17/2016
- by Tom Jennings
- CriterionCast
Did Quentin Tarantino stumble this time out? His tale of western killers sharing a snowbound cabin builds almost zero suspense, and the verbal excess and violent grossness lack Tarantino's usual clever, wickedly funny edge. And 70mm cooped up in a dim interior? It's A Long Day's Journey into Lincoln Logs. Totally dig Jennifer Jason Leigh and Ennio Morricone, though. The Hateful Eight Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD Anchor Bay / Weinstein 2015 / Color / 2.76 widescreen (Ultra Panavision 70) / 187 min. / Street Date March 29, 2016 / 39.99 Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Michael Madsen, James Parks, Dana Gourrier, Zoë Bell, Lee Horsley, Gene Jones, Channing Tatum. Cinematography Robert Richardson Film Editor Fred Raskin Original Music Ennio Morricone Production Design Yohei Taneda Produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Shannon McIntosh, Stacey Sher Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Quentin Tarantino's opening title sequence card announces...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Quentin Tarantino's opening title sequence card announces...
- 3/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Who is the outlaw in Day of the Outlaw? Undoubtedly Burl Ives’ villainous Jack Bruhn – he leads a band of bad guys into the remote Wyoming town, holding everyone there loosely as hostages until he decides to move along. But he’s not an outlaw the way we typically understand it; for one thing, he wears a Union (not even Confederate!) officer’s uniform, and his legacy of shame is more rooted in military than more overtly criminal activities. His band of men are far more outlaws than he, but there is no singular one.
Instead, I want to pivot attention to Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan), the ostensible hero of the story, who starts the film ready to murder a farmer (Alan Marshal) over the latter’s desire to put fences around his land, which Blaise is used to running his cattle through a couple times a year. That Blaise...
Instead, I want to pivot attention to Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan), the ostensible hero of the story, who starts the film ready to murder a farmer (Alan Marshal) over the latter’s desire to put fences around his land, which Blaise is used to running his cattle through a couple times a year. That Blaise...
- 2/18/2016
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
Army investigator John Haven is out to catch some crooks using stealth, his wits and a limitless supply of marvelous hardboiled dialogue. Dick Powell trades a trench coat for a cowboy hat, while luscious Jane Greer swaps a .38 snubnose for a dance hall dress. A great cast, a witty script and Burl Ives' singing voice make this a delightfully different noir-inflected oater. Station West DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 80 min. / Street Date January 12, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Burl Ives,Tom Powers, Gordon Oliver, Steve Brodie, Guinn Williams, Raymond Burr, Regis Toomey, Olin Howlin, John Kellogg, Charles Middleton, John Doucette . Cinematography Harry J. Wild Film Editor Frederic Knudtson Original Music Heinz Roemheld Written by Frank Fenton, Winston Miller Produced by Robert Sparks Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Want to discover a 'different,' fun '40s western with clever plotting?...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Want to discover a 'different,' fun '40s western with clever plotting?...
- 2/6/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In this special episode of Off The Shelf, Ryan and Brian take a look at the best DVD and Blu-ray 2015.
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Follow-Up Ryan buys the Ernest and Celestine Blu-ray from Plain Archive Ultra HD Blu-ray Pre-orders Live, March 1st release: Fox, Sony, WB, Shout! and now Lionsgate Curzon Tarkovsky Ryan’s Top 10 List of 2015 Classics from the Van Beuren Studio (Thunderbean Animation) Thunderbirds: The Complete Series (Timeless Media Group / Shout! Factory) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Arrow UK) Twice Upon A Time (Warner Archive Collection) Journey to the Center of the Earth (Twilight Time) Watership Down (The Criterion Collection) Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Films Collection (Disney) 3-D Rarities (Flicker Alley) Spartacus: Restored Edition (Universal) The Apu Trilogy (The Criterion Collection)
Honorable mentions:
Arrow Video: Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism, The Train, The Criterion Collection: The Fisher King, Moonrise Kingdom...
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Follow-Up Ryan buys the Ernest and Celestine Blu-ray from Plain Archive Ultra HD Blu-ray Pre-orders Live, March 1st release: Fox, Sony, WB, Shout! and now Lionsgate Curzon Tarkovsky Ryan’s Top 10 List of 2015 Classics from the Van Beuren Studio (Thunderbean Animation) Thunderbirds: The Complete Series (Timeless Media Group / Shout! Factory) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Arrow UK) Twice Upon A Time (Warner Archive Collection) Journey to the Center of the Earth (Twilight Time) Watership Down (The Criterion Collection) Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Films Collection (Disney) 3-D Rarities (Flicker Alley) Spartacus: Restored Edition (Universal) The Apu Trilogy (The Criterion Collection)
Honorable mentions:
Arrow Video: Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism, The Train, The Criterion Collection: The Fisher King, Moonrise Kingdom...
- 1/13/2016
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
(This is a review of the roadshow version of The Hateful Eight, which will be screening in true 70Mm in about 50 theaters across the country during the first two weeks after the movie’s release on Christmas Day. The same roadshow version will also screen in other venues digitally rather than on film. Before the roadshow engagement ends, a slightly shortened version, sans overture and intermission, will go into general release on December 31, so if you’re interested in seeing the roadshow version—and if you can, you should see it—read your newspaper or Internet theater listings carefully.)
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Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a friend and I had a friendly discussion online about what it was that made a story a “western.” It seemed to him that, beyond the usual interchangeable trappings of the genre-- six-shooters, ruthless bad guys, conflicted lawmen, a showdown on Main Street...
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Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a friend and I had a friendly discussion online about what it was that made a story a “western.” It seemed to him that, beyond the usual interchangeable trappings of the genre-- six-shooters, ruthless bad guys, conflicted lawmen, a showdown on Main Street...
- 12/22/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of September 22nd, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.
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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up December Criterion Announcements Thunderbean Update News Warner Archive: Twice Upon A Time on September 29th Arrow USA: What Have You Done To Solange? Masters Of Cinema: Day Of The Outlaw, December 7th Sony: Better Call Saul / You Can’t Take It With You Kino Lorber Studio Classics: The Black Sleep / Donovan’s Brain Vinegar Syndrome Dilemma Oscilloscope’s new web store New Releases The American Dreamer Arrow: Season 3 Beginning Or The End Black Caesar Breaker Morant Busting Destructors Deuces Wild Dirty Work Doctor Who: Dark Water/Death in Heaven 3D Dog Day Afternoon 40th Anniversary Fatal Instinct Flash: Season 1 For Us the...
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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up December Criterion Announcements Thunderbean Update News Warner Archive: Twice Upon A Time on September 29th Arrow USA: What Have You Done To Solange? Masters Of Cinema: Day Of The Outlaw, December 7th Sony: Better Call Saul / You Can’t Take It With You Kino Lorber Studio Classics: The Black Sleep / Donovan’s Brain Vinegar Syndrome Dilemma Oscilloscope’s new web store New Releases The American Dreamer Arrow: Season 3 Beginning Or The End Black Caesar Breaker Morant Busting Destructors Deuces Wild Dirty Work Doctor Who: Dark Water/Death in Heaven 3D Dog Day Afternoon 40th Anniversary Fatal Instinct Flash: Season 1 For Us the...
- 9/23/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Quentin Tarantino will be on hand at this year's Comic Con with his new film, The Hateful Eight. The pic is his second western in a row and he seems quite proud of it. "I can definitely say that as bleak as our movie is, we are definitely the funniest snow Western ever made," he told Entertainment Weekly. "This is funnier than The Great Silence, it's funnier than Day of the Outlaw. Oh, yeah, funnier than McCabe & Mrs. Miller." Of course, Tarantino is speaking with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, though it does speak yet again to some of the films that influenced him this time around. However, Tarantino says just as much as we may find cinematic references in this one, small screen Westerns served as more of an inspiration, specifically the likes of "The Virginian" and "Bonanza". "You wait the whole episode to find out, 'Are...
- 7/2/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Quentin Tarantino is going to light up San Diego Comic-Con in a couple of weeks when he struts into town with his western "The Hateful Eight," and one wonders how many of the fanboys will have seen the Robert Altman, Sergio Corbucci, or André de Toth films he references in chatting with EW. Not that it matters. Half of the fun of any Tarantino flick is tracking down the genre gems he mentions as influences. Read More: Quentin Tarantino Saddles Up To Bring 'The Hateful Eight' To Comic-Con His star-studded western about a bunch of rogues facing off in a snow blasted waystation sounds grim, but Tarantino promises it'll have a spark of life to it as well. “I can definitely say that as bleak as our movie is, we are definitely the funniest snow Western ever made. This is funnier than 'The Great Silence,' it...
- 7/2/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Quentin Tarantino is bringing The Hateful Eight to Comic-Con next week, but until the Western’s anticipated panel takes place, here’s another image from the star-studded pic, courtesy of EW.
Kurt Russell plays bounty hunter John Ruth, while Samuel L. Jackson is playing Major Marquis Warren. Both are definitely the kinds of guys you don’t want to end up stranded with – but that’s exactly what happens in the film, when a blizzard traps Ruth and Warren in a stagecoach stopover with an assortment of other rogues. Bloodshed ensues, but Tarantino assures the mag that there’s some humor on screen, too:
“I can definitely say that as bleak as our movie is, we are definitely the funniest snow Western ever made. This is funnier than The Great Silence, it’s funnier than Day of the Outlaw.”
The director also cites Bonanza and The Virginian as two influences on his latest movie,...
Kurt Russell plays bounty hunter John Ruth, while Samuel L. Jackson is playing Major Marquis Warren. Both are definitely the kinds of guys you don’t want to end up stranded with – but that’s exactly what happens in the film, when a blizzard traps Ruth and Warren in a stagecoach stopover with an assortment of other rogues. Bloodshed ensues, but Tarantino assures the mag that there’s some humor on screen, too:
“I can definitely say that as bleak as our movie is, we are definitely the funniest snow Western ever made. This is funnier than The Great Silence, it’s funnier than Day of the Outlaw.”
The director also cites Bonanza and The Virginian as two influences on his latest movie,...
- 7/2/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.
AC Comics
Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 12 Outrageous Girls Strike Back Tp, $29.95
Antarctic Press
Victorian Secret Agents Owls Of The Ironwork Isle #1 (Of 5), $3.95
Archie Comic Publications
Betty And Veronica #265 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99
Betty And Veronica #265 (Renae De Liz Variant Cover), $2.99
Betty And Veronica Friends Double Digest #233, $3.99
Knuckles The Echidna Archives Volume 4 Tp (not verified by Diamond), $9.99
Sonic Universe #51 (Patrick Spaziante Regular Cover), $2.99
Sonic Universe #51 (Patrick Spaziante Variant Cover), $2.99
World Of Archie Double Digest #28, $3.99
Aspen Comics
Idolized #5 (Cover A Pasquale Qualano), $3.99
Idolized #5 (Cover B Rachel Clark Photo), $3.99
Idolized #5 (Cover C Rachel Clark Photo), Ar
Jirni #1 (Of 5)(Paolo Pantalena Aspen Reserved Cover), $1.00
Jirni #1 (Of 5)(Paolo Pantalena Direct Market Cover), $1.00
Avatar Press
Crossed Badlands #27 (Jacen Burrows Red Crossed Incentive Cover...
AC Comics
Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 12 Outrageous Girls Strike Back Tp, $29.95
Antarctic Press
Victorian Secret Agents Owls Of The Ironwork Isle #1 (Of 5), $3.95
Archie Comic Publications
Betty And Veronica #265 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99
Betty And Veronica #265 (Renae De Liz Variant Cover), $2.99
Betty And Veronica Friends Double Digest #233, $3.99
Knuckles The Echidna Archives Volume 4 Tp (not verified by Diamond), $9.99
Sonic Universe #51 (Patrick Spaziante Regular Cover), $2.99
Sonic Universe #51 (Patrick Spaziante Variant Cover), $2.99
World Of Archie Double Digest #28, $3.99
Aspen Comics
Idolized #5 (Cover A Pasquale Qualano), $3.99
Idolized #5 (Cover B Rachel Clark Photo), $3.99
Idolized #5 (Cover C Rachel Clark Photo), Ar
Jirni #1 (Of 5)(Paolo Pantalena Aspen Reserved Cover), $1.00
Jirni #1 (Of 5)(Paolo Pantalena Direct Market Cover), $1.00
Avatar Press
Crossed Badlands #27 (Jacen Burrows Red Crossed Incentive Cover...
- 4/14/2013
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
A mute gunfighter by the name of Silence (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant star of the Oscar-nominated Amour) lives by a code that he won't shoot a man until that man draws on him first. This code is put on display as a group of bounty killers lay in wait and Silence guns them all down except one. This one, comes running out from behind a tree, surrendering, asking Silence not to kill him saying he's through with bounty hunting. Silence obliges by shooting off his thumb, guaranteeing he'll never pull a trigger again. In the first three minutes, director Sergio Corbucci has given us a character we want to now a lot more about. Corbucci's Django was one of the many inspirations for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, but as much as the film's title character may have come from Django, inspiration was found in plenty of other films,...
- 2/27/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Well, for starters I watched Before Sunrise and have started Before Sunset for a feature I am working on and will publish closer to the May 24 release date of Before Midnight, but trust me, fans of those two films are going to like what I have in store. I also watched Andre De Toth's Day of the Outlaw starring Burl Ives and Robert Ryan as I had read it was part of what inspired Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence, which is the Movie Club selection for February 27. And speaking of which, I have decided what the next title in the Club will be, but I won't be revealing that until the 27th. Other than that, I have started watching episodes of "Breaking Bad" on Netflix Instant and so far I'm five episodes into the first season. I know a lot of people like the show, but at the...
- 2/17/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The director tells how he transposed the violent spaghetti westerns of Sergio Corbucci to the antebellum south
Acclaimed in the United States and due for release here next month, Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained is the violent story of a slave on a mission to free his wife. Tarantino's biggest influences for the film, he says, were the spaghetti westerns of the Italian director Sergio Corbucci.
Any of the western directors who had something to say created their own version of the west: Anthony Mann created a west that had room for the characters played by Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper; Sam Peckinpah had his own west; so did Sergio Leone. Sergio Corbucci did, too, but his was the most violent, surreal and pitiless landscape of any director in the history of the genre. His characters roam a brutal, sadistic west.
Corbucci's heroes can't really be called heroes.
Acclaimed in the United States and due for release here next month, Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained is the violent story of a slave on a mission to free his wife. Tarantino's biggest influences for the film, he says, were the spaghetti westerns of the Italian director Sergio Corbucci.
Any of the western directors who had something to say created their own version of the west: Anthony Mann created a west that had room for the characters played by Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper; Sam Peckinpah had his own west; so did Sergio Leone. Sergio Corbucci did, too, but his was the most violent, surreal and pitiless landscape of any director in the history of the genre. His characters roam a brutal, sadistic west.
Corbucci's heroes can't really be called heroes.
- 12/31/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
"It's all in the eyes," Robert Ryan once said of film acting. "That's where you do most of your work."
But was it true of Ryan himself? His own narrow and heavily lidded brown eyes often registered as black disks in the lighting schemes of the late 40s and early 50s—that is, when they weren't overwhelmed by his massive forehead and his thick tangle of dark hair, or a pair of tragic eyebrows that threatened to merge with the numerous crags in his face as he entered middle age. Not to mention his lanky, extremely powerful physique. Take a close look at Ryan in The Set-Up or On Dangerous Ground and you'll get a sense of the relative frailty and delicacy of most male movie stars. In the post-war era, only Burt Lancaster was as physically imposing (Kirk Douglas was always fit but he was self-contained and self-motivated, even...
But was it true of Ryan himself? His own narrow and heavily lidded brown eyes often registered as black disks in the lighting schemes of the late 40s and early 50s—that is, when they weren't overwhelmed by his massive forehead and his thick tangle of dark hair, or a pair of tragic eyebrows that threatened to merge with the numerous crags in his face as he entered middle age. Not to mention his lanky, extremely powerful physique. Take a close look at Ryan in The Set-Up or On Dangerous Ground and you'll get a sense of the relative frailty and delicacy of most male movie stars. In the post-war era, only Burt Lancaster was as physically imposing (Kirk Douglas was always fit but he was self-contained and self-motivated, even...
- 8/13/2011
- MUBI
Above: Publicity still from John Parker's Dementia (1955).
Rep houses in San Francisco, like those in most American cities, are struggling to stay open. But for something like thirty nights a year, the clouds lift and big crowds materialize for films of the past: call it the noir exception. To be sure, one needn’t actually attend the Film Noir Foundation’s annual Noir City festival at the Castro or Elliot Lavine’s grittier programs at the Roxie to know that the generic fantasy of film noir (style, sex and violence washed together) still holds powerful allure. You could hardly miss the bus stop advert for Rockstar Games’ latest blockbuster, L.A. Noire, outside the Roxie during Lavine’s latest marathon, “I Wake Up Dreaming: The Legendary and the Lost”. For those of us still invested in the non-interactive cinema experience, however, the popularity of these series is a remarkable if curious thing.
Rep houses in San Francisco, like those in most American cities, are struggling to stay open. But for something like thirty nights a year, the clouds lift and big crowds materialize for films of the past: call it the noir exception. To be sure, one needn’t actually attend the Film Noir Foundation’s annual Noir City festival at the Castro or Elliot Lavine’s grittier programs at the Roxie to know that the generic fantasy of film noir (style, sex and violence washed together) still holds powerful allure. You could hardly miss the bus stop advert for Rockstar Games’ latest blockbuster, L.A. Noire, outside the Roxie during Lavine’s latest marathon, “I Wake Up Dreaming: The Legendary and the Lost”. For those of us still invested in the non-interactive cinema experience, however, the popularity of these series is a remarkable if curious thing.
- 6/13/2011
- MUBI
Mother's Day is announced as a remake of a 1980 horror movie of the same title that was banned in Britain by the BBFC In the greatly expanded new edition of Nightmare Movies, his valuable, encyclopedic guide, Horror on Screen Since the 1960s (Bloomsbury), Kim Newman places writer-director Charles Kaufman's tale of female backpackers avenging themselves on degenerate rednecks in a chapter called "Deep in the Heart of Texas, or: The Down-Home, Up-Country, Multi-Implement Massacre Movie".
He rather likes the way Kaufman satirises Wes Craven's early work. Darren Lynn Bousman, who has three sequels to the Saw horror franchise on his CV, doesn't appear to have used much of the 1980 original. His film is, in fact, another of those stories of fugitive criminals who, having escaped from jail (or, as in this case, are on the run after a botched robbery), seek refuge in a seemingly happy bourgeois household.
He rather likes the way Kaufman satirises Wes Craven's early work. Darren Lynn Bousman, who has three sequels to the Saw horror franchise on his CV, doesn't appear to have used much of the 1980 original. His film is, in fact, another of those stories of fugitive criminals who, having escaped from jail (or, as in this case, are on the run after a botched robbery), seek refuge in a seemingly happy bourgeois household.
- 6/11/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor David Nelson has died at the age of 74. David was best known for his role on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV), a family show created by his parents which drew it's plot lines from many of the Nelson's real life experiences. The series ran from 1952 to 1966 and featured David's father, the famous band leader Ozzie Nelson, David's mother, singer Harriet Hilliard, and his teen idol brother, Rick Nelson. David was the last remaining member of his television family. The pioneer actor passed away at his home in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday following a battle with colon cancer. Throughout his career, David added other TV credits to his resume, appearing in such shows as High School USA (TV), The Love Boat (TV), and Up in Smoke (TV). He also directed several television series, including a number of episodes from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV...
- 1/12/2011
- by jmaurer@corp.popstar.com (Jennifer Maurer)
- PopStar
Nelson was last surviving castmember of the popular 1950s and '60s family sitcom.
By Gil Kaufman
David, Harriet and Ozzie Nelson
Photo: ABC
In the 1950s and '60s the Nelsons were one of the most popular families on television, but on Tuesday the last surviving castmember of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," David Nelson, died at the age of 74. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nelson passed away in his Century City, California, home after battling complications from colon cancer.
In an age before reality TV, Nelson was one of the first true reality stars. Appearing alongside his actual family in the long-running sitcom that starred his parents, Ozzie and Harriet, and younger brother and future music/film star Ricky, David Nelson got his start on the radio in 1949 with the original incarnation of the sitcom, which his parents had launched five years earlier.
The show made the...
By Gil Kaufman
David, Harriet and Ozzie Nelson
Photo: ABC
In the 1950s and '60s the Nelsons were one of the most popular families on television, but on Tuesday the last surviving castmember of "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," David Nelson, died at the age of 74. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nelson passed away in his Century City, California, home after battling complications from colon cancer.
In an age before reality TV, Nelson was one of the first true reality stars. Appearing alongside his actual family in the long-running sitcom that starred his parents, Ozzie and Harriet, and younger brother and future music/film star Ricky, David Nelson got his start on the radio in 1949 with the original incarnation of the sitcom, which his parents had launched five years earlier.
The show made the...
- 1/12/2011
- MTV Music News
Los Angeles — David Nelson, who starred on his parents' popular television show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," has died, a family spokesman said. He was 74.
Nelson, who was battling complications of colon cancer, died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, said family spokesman and longtime Hollywood publicist Dale Olson.
Nelson was the last remaining member of the Nelsons TV family, which included actor/bandleader Ozzie, his singer wife, Harriet Hilliard and his teen idol brother Rick. The show originated on radio in 1952 as "Here Come the Nelsons," then ran for 320 episodes on TV from 1952 to 1966 as "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" with some of the story lines taken from the stars' own lives. David Nelson also directed and produced numerous episodes of the show throughout its run.
Singer Gunnar Nelson, a son of Rick Nelson, issued a statement Wednesday, saying his uncle's death was "a great loss to the Nelson family.
Nelson, who was battling complications of colon cancer, died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, said family spokesman and longtime Hollywood publicist Dale Olson.
Nelson was the last remaining member of the Nelsons TV family, which included actor/bandleader Ozzie, his singer wife, Harriet Hilliard and his teen idol brother Rick. The show originated on radio in 1952 as "Here Come the Nelsons," then ran for 320 episodes on TV from 1952 to 1966 as "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" with some of the story lines taken from the stars' own lives. David Nelson also directed and produced numerous episodes of the show throughout its run.
Singer Gunnar Nelson, a son of Rick Nelson, issued a statement Wednesday, saying his uncle's death was "a great loss to the Nelson family.
- 1/12/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
David Nelson's family was actually way ahead of its time. As stars of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons David and Ricky were doing a sitcom-as-a-play-on-real-life a few years before Lucy and Desi and decades before Larry David took the idea to HBO. And they lasted 14 seasons! Sadly, David Nelson, the surviving member of the quintessential 1950s-era family of four, died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home after battling colon cancer. He was 74. Even before Ozzie and Harriet ended its run on ABC in 1966 (it was in color by then!), David had started a solo acting career, appearing in the classic 1957 film Peyton Place, as well as B-movies like -30-, Day of the Outlaw...
- 1/12/2011
- E! Online
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