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QuickPix (35): “Great COMEDIES For You to Savor, Vol. 5”

Posted on January 22, 2024 by KPKeelan

> 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 to 5 star movie. It don’t get any better than this. … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged A Shot in the Dark, Alfred Zeisler, art, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Cheaper By the Dozen, cinema, classics, Claudette Colbert, Clifton Webb, comedies, criticism, Don Ameche, Elke Sommer, entertainment, families, films, humor, ideas, John Barrymore, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mary Astor, Midnight, movies, Myrna Loy, opinion, Peter Sellers, QuickPix, reviews, romance, screwball comedies, sequels, The Amazing Adventure, The Pink Panther, wit | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

Posted on November 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > This month: a Noël Coward comedy of manners, a previously unseen Hitchcock thriller, a return to seminal swashbucklers of my youth, the Greatest Concert Film Ever Made, a silly Marx Brothers lark, Tracy and Hepburn meet Elia Kazan, … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged adventure, Africa, African safaris, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, American Indians, Angel on My Shoulder, Angie Dickinson, animation, Ann Margaret, Anne Baxter, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Perkins, appearances, Aramis, Archie Mayo, artists, arts, Athos, Australian outback, Ava Gardner, Barry Corbin, Beauty and the Beast, Bobby Rydell, British cinema, Bye Bye Birdie, celebrities, celebrity, Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Frantz, cinema, Clark Gable, class, classics, Claude Rains, collectives, comedies, comedy, concerts, corruption, crime, criticism, D'Artagnan, Dan Duryea, David Byrne, Dead Ringer, Dean Stockwell, Dick Van Dyke, divorce, documentaries, drama, Dyan Cannon, dysfunctional relationships, Ed Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Elemental, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Elke Sommer, empowerment, England, entertainment, epics, espionage, exploitation, fables, fairy tales, fame, fantasy, farming, feuds, films, France, Frank Finlay, fraud, French cinema, game trafficking, George Sidney, Go West, God, good and evil, Grace Kelly, greed, Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, HBO, Herbert Ross, Hume Cronyn, humor, Ian McShane, ideas, infidelity, injustice, intrigue, Jack White, James Colburn, James Garner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Jean Cocteau, Jerry Harrison, Jesse Plemons, Jessica Tandy, Joan Hackett, John Ford, John Lithgow, John Qualen, Jonathan Demme, Joseph Cotton, justice, Karen Morley, Karl Malden, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, Killers of the Flower Moon, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Last Stop Larrimah, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Lionel Barrymore, love, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, marriage, Martin Scorsese, Marx brothers, Maureen Stapelton, Melvyn Douglas, Michael York, Mogambo, morality, movies, murder, music, musicals, mystery, Noel Coward, Norma Shearer, Norman Jewison, Oliver Reed, opinion, Orson Welles, Osage Nation, Our Daily Bread, Paddy Moriarty, Paul Lynde, Paul Muni, personalities, Pete Yorn, Pixar, Porthos, poverty, Private Lives, privilege, racism, Raquel Welch, redemption, relationships, reviews, rich and famous, Richard Benjamin, Richard Burton, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Robert De Niro, Robert Montgomery, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, Satan, Shadow of a Doubt, slapstick, small towns, socialism, Spencer Tracy, spies, Stephen Sondheim, Stop Making Sense, stunts, supernatural, survival, suspense, swashbuckling, Talking Heads, Tay Garnett, Terrence Rattigan, The Art of Love, the eighties, The Four Musketeers, the great depression, The Last of Sheila, The Sea of Grass, The Three Musketeers, The V.I.P.s, The Valley of Decision, Thornton Wilder, Tina Weymouth, Tom Keene, tragedy, violence, westerns, whodunnit | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema: (137): “The Films of July 2023”

Posted on August 8, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > July was kind of an in-between month. Not much of interest in the marketplace, aside from the formidable marketing juggernaut of BARBENHEIMER. It was however, a month that sent me out to the movies twice- something that hasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Adrien Brody, Alexander Payne, aliens, ambition, Americana, Amy Wright, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie Oakley, Anything You Can Do, arts, Asteroid City, Aunt Mary Claire, Aunt Selma, Barry Levinson, Betty Hutton, biography, Bob Balaban, Brad Dourif, Bryan Cranston, Buffalo Bill Cody, Busby Berkeley, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, cinema, comedy, con men, crime, criminals, criticism, Dave Bautista, David Morse, disability, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly, drama, dysfunction, Edward Norton, Election, Elke Sommer, Emily Blunt, entertainment, films, Flannery O'Connor, Florence Pugh, fraud, friendship, Gary Oldman, George Sidney, government, grifters, growth, Harold Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, healing, high school, history, Hollywood, Hope Davis, Hotel Artemis, Howard Keel, hubris, I'm an Indian Too, ideas, Inside Moves, Irving Berlin, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffery Wright, Jenny Slate, Jill St. John, Jodie Foster, John Huston, John Savage, Josh Hartnett, Keenan Wynn, Kevin Keelan, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Live Schreiber, Louis Calhern, Margot Robbie, Matt Damon, Matt Dillon, Matthew Broderick, movies, musicals, nuclear weapons, opinion, Oppenheimer, politics, preachers, Project Trinity, Reese Witherspoon, relationships, religion, reviews, Richard Donner, Rita Wilson, Robert Downey Jr., romance, satire, Scarlett Johansson, science, scientists, Sitting Bull, spirituality, Stephen Boyd, Sterling K. Brown, Steve Carell, success, surrealism, the arms race, the atomic age, The Girl That I Marry, The Oscar, There's No Business Like Show Business, They Say It's Wonderful, thrillers, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, Tony Bennett, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe, Wise Blood, World War II, You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, Zachary Quinto | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (103): The Films of September 2020

Posted on July 27, 2021 by KPKeelan

. SEPTEMBER 2020. Amid the global pandemic horror, the cinematic bounty overfloweth! (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 expanded for Flix … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 21 Days, 47 Ronin, A Dry White Season, aboriginals, action, adventure, Alps, Alvarez Kelly, Ann Sheridan‎, Anya Taylor-Joy, apartheid, Australian cinema, Authur Laurents, Autumn de Wilde, Bill Nighy, British politics, Carey Mulligan, Cary Grant‎, Civil War, colonialism, comedies, coming of age, divorce, documentaries, Donald Sutherland, drama, Ed Oxenbould, Edward Dmytryk, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Emma., empowerment, endurance, equality, F.W. Murnau, families, farce, feminism, Fred Astaire, Fred Schepisi, Greek cinema, Harakiri, Henry James, High Heels, historical drama, history, Howard Hawks, humor, I Was a Male War Bride, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Jane Austen, Japanese cinema, John Cleese, John Entwistle, Johnny Flynn, Julie Delpy, Kathleen Turner, Keith Moon, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kirsten Dunst, Laurence Olivier, Maiden, Man With the Gun, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Monty Python, music, musicals, mysteries, native populations, Nobel Prize, parody, Paul Dano, Paul Newman, Pedro Almodovar, performance, period pieces, Pete Townsend, Peter Cook, Peter Lawford, politics, racism, Richard Widmark, Robert J. Flaherty, Robert Mitchum, rock and roll, Roger Daltrey, romance, Royal Wedding, Sam Shepard, satire, silent films, Sofia Coppola, South Africa, south seas, Spanish cinema, Spencer Tracy, sports, survival, taboos, Tabu A Tale of the South Seas, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The Kids Are Alright, The Last Hurrah, The Nightcomers, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Prize, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The Virgin Suicides, The Who, thrillers, Tracy Edwards, tragedy, tribal rituals, Turn of the Screw, violence, Vivien Leigh, Volker Schlöndorff, Voyager, westerns, Whitbread Round the World Race, wildlife, William Holden, World War II, yacht racing, Yorgos Lanthimos | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (58): The Films of December 2016

Posted on June 12, 2021 by KPKeelan

. With the year coming to a close, I think it’s safe to pronounce this year’s crop of films as somewhat lesser than the bumper harvest of last year. They can’t all be bumper crops… (Ratings are on a 5 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Shot in the Dark, Alfred Molina, Alice in Wonderland, Amanda Seyfried, Angelina Jolie, animation, art, Babe Ruth, Ben Foster, Billy Bob Thornton, biography, Blake Edwards, Chloë Sevigny, Chris Pine, Cillian Murphy, cinema, classics, Coen brothers, comedies, David Bradley, Destination Planet Negro, documentaries, Domhnall Gleeson, Don Cheadle, drama, Edward Everett Horton, Elke Sommer, Ethan Coen, fantasy, farce, film criticism, films, Gary Cooper, George Clooney, Hail Caesar, harold lloyd, Hell or High Water, humor, Hunt For the Wilderpeople, In Time, Inspector Clouseau, Jane Austen, jazz, Jeff Bridges, Joel Coen, Justin Timberlake, Kate Beckinsale, Ken Loach, Kes, Kevin Keelan, Kim Baker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kutiman, Lo and Behold, Louie Zamperini, Love & Friendship, Martin Freeman, Miles Ahead, Miles Davis, movies, music, New Zealand, Nick Park, Peter Sellers, Presenting Princess Shaw, racism, Reveries of the Connected World, reviews, Rima Te Wiata, Sam Neill, science fiction, Shaun of the Sheep Movie, silent films, Speedy, stories, Taika Waititi, the Internet, the worldwide web, Tina Fey, Unbroken, W.C. Fields, war, Werner Herzog, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Elke Sommer

QuickPix (35): “Great COMEDIES For You to Savor, Vol. 5”

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

KPK on the Cinema: (137): “The Films of July 2023”

KPK on the CINEMA (103): The Films of September 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (58): The Films of December 2016

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