Tag Archives: David Fincher

QuickPix (33): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 11”

Posted on January 20, 2024 by KPKeelan

> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, a new feature here in KPKworld! > Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged art, Ben Affleck, childhood, cinema, coming of age, criticism, David Fincher, dramas, drugs, Elia Kazan, entertainment, films, French cinema, Gary Cooper, gender identity, Gomorrah, Gone Girl, ideas, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lili Palmer, love, movies, Natalie Wood, opinion, organized crime, QuickPix, reviews, romance, Rosamund Pike, sex, Splendor in the Grass, the Casalesi clan, thrillers, Tomboy, transgender, violence, Warren Beatty, William Inge | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (972): “Gary Oldman is MANK”

Posted on December 18, 2022 by KPKeelan

MANK (directed by David Fincher, 2020) ****+ (out of 5) . > Accomplished director David Fincher created this stellar Netflix film from a script by his late father, Jack. . It tells the story of the struggle for screenwriting credit Herman … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Amanda Seyfried, arts, biography, cinema, Citizen Kane, criticism, David Fincher, David O. Selznick, entertainment, film, Gary Oldman, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Hollywood, ideas, Irving Thalberg, Jack Fincher, John Houseman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mank, Marion Davies, movies, Netflix, opinion, Orson Welles, power, reviews, San Simeon, screenwriting, Trent Reznor, wealth, William Randolph Hearst, writers | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (106): The Films of December 2020

Posted on July 30, 2021 by KPKeelan

. DECEMBER 2020! Seven 5-star classics! Bet that’s an all-time record. So without further ado… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 20 Million Miles to Earth, A Night in Casablanca, action, African cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, aliens, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Franciosa, Anthony Hopkins, artists, arts, assassination, August Wilson, Benh Zeitlin, biography, blacksploitation, blues, Caoilinn Springall, Cary Grant, Chadwick Boseman, Chico Marx, Christianity, cinema, Citizen Kane, Claire Bloom, cold war, comedies, compromise, criticism, Crumbs, David Fincher, David Lynch, David O. Selznick, David Oyelowo, deformities, Demián Bichir, disaster films, drama, dysfunctional families, dystopia, exploitation, extremism, fantasy, Felicity Jones, films, Freddie Jones, Garson Kanin, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, George Cukor, George Roy Hill, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Herman J. Mankiewicz, history, Hollywood, humanity, ideas, Incitement, Ingmar Bergman, Irene Dunn, Irving Thalberg, Israeli cinema, Jack Albertson, Jack Fincher, Jane Fonda, Jay Duplass, jazz, Jesus, Jim Hutton, John Forsythe, John Houseman, John Hurt, John McGiver, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katherine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, King Henry II, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lois Nettleton, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, manhood, Mank, Marion Davies, marriage, Marx brothers, Max Von Sydow, mercenaries, movies, murder, music, musicals, My Favorite Wife, mythology, Netflix, new testament, Oakland, opinion, Orson Welles, outer space, Pedro Pascal, peril, Period of Adjustment, Peter O’Toole, Peter Pan, playwrights, post-apocalypse, power, Prospect, race, Radha Blank, rap, Ray Harryhausen, relationships, religion, reviews, Rod Taylor, romance, royalty, San Simeon, sci-fi, science fiction, screenwriting, screwball comedies, sex, sexuality, Shelley Winters, Sir John Gielgud, Sophie Tucker, Space is the Place, spies, Sun Ra, surrealism, Swedish cinema, Tennessee Williams, terrorism, The 40-Year-Old Version, the Bible, The Chapman Report, The Elephant Man, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Lion in Winter, The Magician, The Midnight Sky, thrillers, Topaz, tragedy, Trent Reznor, true stories, Viola Davis, wealth, Wendy, Wendy Hiller, William Randolph Hearst, World Without End, writers | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (40): The Films of APRIL 2015

Posted on May 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. I saw 30 films in April 2015. Best. Month. Ever. Renewing my focus on “classic” cinema, I have never watched so many 5-star gems in one month: 12 of them! I was transfixed by treasures from the likes of John … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 3 Days of Peace and Music, 3 Godfathers, Aaron Aronofsky, Alec Guinness, Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Magnani, arts, Ben Affleck, Brian Keith, Busby Berkeley, Buster Keaton, Carson McCullers, Cary Grant, Celine Dion, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Plummer, cinema, Cinema Verite, Claudette Colbert, Cleopatra, Cloak and Dagger, Dan Steven, Danny Trejo, David Fincher, Diane Baker, Diane Lane, documentaries, Edmund Gwenn, Edward Dmytryk, Elizabeth Taylor, Emma Watson, Fata Morgana, Father Goose, film criticism, films, For Me and My Gal, Frank Capra, Frank Langella, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Genevieve Bujold, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, George Roy Hill, Gone Girl, Gregory Peck, HBO, ideas, IMAX, Jack Weston, James Cromwell, James Gandolfini, James Mason, James McAvoy, Jeff Goldblum, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Broadbent, Joanne Woodward, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, Josh Groban, Julie Harris, Katherine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Gaga, Le Week-End, Leif Erickson, Lindsay Duncan, Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Mann, Mirage, Miranda Richardson, movies, Muppets Most Wanted, musicals, nature, Noah, opinion, Percy Jones, Peter Stone, Preston Sturges, Ray Liotta, Reflections in a Golden Eye, reviews, Ricky Gervais, Rob Corddry, Robert Redford, rock 'n' Roll, Rosamund Pike, Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek, Saoirse Ronan, Sea of Monsters, Sean Combs, She, Sidney Lumet, Sophia Loren, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Boyd, Still Mine, Sylvia Scarlett, Tennessee Williams, Terence Stamp, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Fugitive Kind, The Great McGinty, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Saphead, The Skin Game, The Westerner, Tim Robbins, Tina Fey, Toby Jones, Tom Hiddleston, Tony Bennett, Trevor Howard, Under the Sea, Usher, Wagon Master, Walter Brennan, Walter Matthau, Werner Herzog, William Wyler, Woodstock, Zach Galifianakis | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: David Fincher

QuickPix (33): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 11”

FLIX PIX (972): “Gary Oldman is MANK”

KPK on the CINEMA (106): The Films of December 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (40): The Films of APRIL 2015

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