Tag Archives: George C. Scott

FLIX PIX (1052): “Gary Cooper is Trying to Escape a Date With THE HANGING TREE”

Posted on April 22, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE HANGING TREE (directed by Delmer Daves, 1959) ***+ (out of 5) . > Delmer Daves helmed this Gary Cooper western, with a little help from actor Karl Malden when he fell ill for a spell. . It features Gary Cooper … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, criticism, Delmer Daves, drama, entertainment, films, Gary Cooper, George C. Scott, ideas, Karl Malden, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Maria Schell, movies, opinion, reviews, The Hanging Tree, westerns | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (636): “Three Stories About THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE”

Posted on July 3, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE YELLOW ROLLS–ROYCE (directed by Anthony Asquith, 1964) *** (out of 5) . > This is a curiosity: a mainstream Hollywood anthology film that tells three consecutive stories, all connected by one classic yellow Rolls-Royce and the people who own … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged anthologies, Anthony Asquith, art, Art Carney, cinema, criticism, drama, films, George C. Scott, ideas, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Omar Sharif, opinion, reviews, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (117): The Films of November 2021

Posted on January 27, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > Love and war, heartless big business, off-kilter spiritual claptrap, a visit to the French countryside, ethics and morality, obsession, crime and racism… Life has a lot going on! (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged absurdism, accidents, adaptations, aging, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Mackendrick, Amazon, Andrzej Wajda, Antonio Banderas, artists, arts, Ashes and Diamonds, assassins, Benedict Cumberbatch, biography, Burgess Meredith, Burt Lancaster, business, Canadian cinema, choices, cinema, Cinema Verite, classics, Coda, comedy, competitiveness, corruption, couples, Cousin Jules, crime, criticism, cyberbullies, David D'Amato, David Farrier, death, Denis Villeneuve, documentaries, Dominique Benicheti, drama, Ed Begley, England, English cinema, entertainment, exploitation, fantasy, Felice Guiteaux, fetishes, film, film noir, filmmaking, forgiveness, fraud, French cinema, George Bernard Shaw, George C. Scott, Glenn Corbett, guilt, Gun Crazy, Guy Hamilton, harassment, humor, ideas, illness, inventors, investigative journalism, irony, James Shigeta, John Dall, Jules Guiteaux, Julie Christie, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Los Angeles, love, Maelström, manslaughter, Marie-Josée Croze, metaphor, Mexican cinema, morals, movies, murder, mysticism, nature, New Zealand cinema, obsession, opinion, Pain and Glory, pathos, patterns, Pedro Almodovar, Peggy Cummins, Penelope Cruz, period pieces, perversion, Petulia, plays, Polish cinema, quests, race, redemption, reviews, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Rod Serling, romance, Russ Tamblyn, sacrifice, Samuel Beckett, social satire, soldiers, Spanish cinema, spirituality, surrealism, symbolism, The Crimson Kimono, The Devil’s Disciple, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The Holy Mountain, the seasons, Tickled, time, tradition, tragedy, TV dramas, values, Van Heflin, violence, Waiting for Godot, Walter Burke, work, World War II, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE 2020 was a busy film month! Not much else to do, if you have no sex partner and you can hardly heave the house! In this bunch, we get comedies, romances, dramas, animation, film noir, sci-fi, horror, caper … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (42): The Films of JUNE 2015

Posted on May 27, 2021 by KPKeelan

. I saw just 10 films in May 2015, another slow movie-watching month, but my wonderful public library did serve me well again in June, and I did make one trek to the movies to see Pixar’s latest animated delight… … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Paul, Alec Baldwin, Alzheimer’s, Amy Poehler, animation, Anne Dorval, Art Carney, arts, Ben Kingsley, biblical epics, Brian Murray, Channing Tatum, Chris Pine, Christian Bale, cinema, Dave Chappell's Block Party, Exodus God's and Kings, film criticism, films, Foxcatcher, Gabriel García Bernal, George C. Scott, ideas, Ingrid Bergman, Inside Out, Jack Ryan, Jeanne Moreau, John Turturro, Jon Stewart, Julienne Moore, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Keelan, Kirsten Stewart, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lewis Black, Mark Ruffalo, Maziar Bahari, Melissa McCarthy, Mommy, movies, Omar Sharif, opinion, Pixar, reviews, Rex Harrison, Ridley Scott, Rosewater, Shadow Recruit, Shirley MacLaine, Sigourney Weaver, St. Vincent, Steve Carell, Still Alice, Suzanne Clément, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, Theodore Melfi, Tom Clancy, Tony Scott | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: George C. Scott

FLIX PIX (1052): “Gary Cooper is Trying to Escape a Date With THE HANGING TREE”

FLIX PIX (636): “Three Stories About THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE”

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