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KPK on the CINEMA (139): “The Films of September 2023”

Posted on October 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > Some real gems in the compendium this month. Even the lesser films were surprisingly entertaining. I enjoyed ‘em all. (Except for THE ROUNDERS. That was pretty stinky.) But my greatest pleasures seemed to come from revisiting past cinematic … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Paul, action, Adam West, adventure, Alfred Hitchcock, Alida Valli, American politics, apocalypse, Armageddon, Arthur Kennedy, arts, assassination, B-movies, Batman, Ben Kingsley, biblical epics, biography, British cinema, Bruce Wayne, Burgess Meredith, Burt Ward, camp, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Catwoman, Cedric Hardwicke, Cesar Romero, Changi Prison, Christian Bale, cinema, class, classics, Claude Rains, Colectiv Nightclub, Collective, comedy, comic books, coming of age, Communism, corruption, courtroom drama, crime, criminals, criticism, cult films, Dame May Whitty, Denholm Elliot, Dick Grayson, disasters, discipline, documentaries, drama, dramady, dystopia, Elizabeth Taylor, entertainment, espionage, Exodus God's and Kings, families, fantasy, Father's Little Dividend, films, fires, forgery, forgiveness, Frank Gorshin, fraud, gangsters, George Segal, Glenn Ford, Gordon Parks, government accountability, grandparents, Harvey Keitel, hitmen, hustlers, I Am Legend, ideas, Indians, Israeli cinema, James Fox, Jane Curtain, Joel Edgerton, John Huston, John Mills, John Turturro, justice, Kevin Keelan, King Rat, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee Israel, Lee Meriwether, Leonard Rossiter, Little Italy, Lloyd Bridges, mafia, Man in the Wilderness, manipulation, Margaret Lockwood, Marielle Heller, Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Redgrave, Mossad, mountain climbing, movies, mystery, mythology, native Americans, Nazis, Nazism, New York, opinion, Oscar Homolka, parenthood, Patrick O'Neal, politics, punishment, racism, rebellion, redemption, reform school, religion, revenge, reviews, Richard E. Grant, Richard Harris, Richard Matheson, Ridley Scott, Robert De Nero, Robin the Boy Wonder, romance, Romanian cinema, scandal, sci-fi, science fiction, Sigourney Weaver, Singapore, Spencer Tracy, spies, superheroes, supervillains, survival, Swiss Alps, The Joker, The Lady Vanishes, The Last Man on Earth, The Learning Tree, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Penguin, The Revenant, the Riddler, The White Tower, Tom Courtenay, Tom Courtnay, Tony Richardson, tragedy, Trial, Vincent Price, violence, Walk On Water, westerns, zombies | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1072): “Yikes! Blake Edwards Conducts an EXPERIMENT IN TERROR”

Posted on June 5, 2023 by KPKeelan

EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (directed by Blake Edwards, 1962) ***** (out of 5) . > Blake Edwards directs this black-and-white neo-noir psychological drama with youthful panache. . In this EXPERIMENT IN TERROR he crafted an effective thriller that builds inexorably to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Blake Edwards, cinema, classics, crime, criticism, entertainment, Experiment in Terror, extortion, films, Flix Pix, Glenn Ford, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee Remick, movies, opinion, reviews, Ross Martin, Stefanie Powers, suspense, thrillers | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (869): “Fritz Lang Composes the Perfect Noir in THE BIG HEAT”

Posted on October 27, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE BIG HEAT (directed by Fritz Lang, 1953) ***** (out of 5) . > I thought I had seen this classic noir and found it less than it was celebrated to be. Glad to report: I was certainly mistaking it for … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, classics, corruption, criticism, drama, film noir, films, Fritz Lang, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, ideas, justice, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee Marvin, movies, murder, opinion, reviews, The Big Heat, violence | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (122): The Films of April 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > APRIL 2022! SO BE IT. (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) (Titles in PURPLE have been expanded for FLIX PIX columns) > This month I … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Adam Driver, adventure, Al Pacino, Alessandro Nivola, Alf Kjellin, allegories, Anthony Perkins, anti-Semitism, arts, Audrey Hepburn, authoritarianism, Ben Johnson, big business, Billy Magnussen, biography, Blackmail, Brock Peters, Brute Force, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, cinema, Civil War, classics, Claude Rains, Cloris Leachman, comedy, Corey Stoll, corruption, crime, criticism, David Chace, Debbie Reynolds, detectives, drama, drams, Elizabeth Ashley, entertainment, Erol Flynn, escapes, families, fantasy, film noir, films, George Segal, Glenn Ford, Green Mansions, Gunnel Lindblom, Heinz Rühmann, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Henry Silva, House of Gucci, Hume Cronyn, ideas, identity, innocence, intolerance, Jack Elam, jailbreaks, James Coburn, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jim Hutton, Jose Ferrer, Jules Dassin, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kiss Me Deadly, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Gaga, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Marvin, Leslie Odom Jr., mafia, Major Dundee, Mark Twain, marriage, Max Von Sydow, Mel Ferrer, Michael Dunn, Michael Gandolfini, Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer, movies, murder, mystery, native tribes, Nazism, opinion, Oskar Werner, prequels, prisoners, racism, Ralph Meeker, rape, Ray Loitta, refugees, revenge, reviews, Richard Harris, Ridley Scott, Rob Reiner, Robert Aldrich, romance, royalty, Salma Hayek, Sam Peckinpah, Sessue Hayakawa, Ship of Fools, Simone Signoret, Slim Pickins, Stanley Kramer, Strother Martin, success, suspense, Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinema, The Gazebo, The Many Saints of Newark, The Prince and the Pauper, The Sopranos, The Virgin Spring, tragedy, Venezuela, Vera Farmiga, violence, Vivien Leigh, Warren Oats, Werner Klemperer, westerns, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

Posted on July 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > JULY 2020! Most of us are still alive! Well that’s something… (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ace in the Hole, Adolph Green, Aldolph Green, Alfre Woodard, Alice Pearce, alienation, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, American history, Ann Miller, Anne Baxter, art, Arthur Kennedy, astronomy, Atacama Desert, Atlanta, Augusto Pinochet, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Bel Geddes, Best Foreign Film, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, Bill O’Reilly, Billy Wilder, biography, Blood on the Moon, Bombshell, Brian Keith, British cinema, Brock Peters, Centennial Park bombing, Charlize Theron, child abuse, Chilean cinema, Chris Cooper, Christine Lahti, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, Cinema Verite, Clint Eastwood, comedies, concentration camps, corruption, courage, crime, criticism, Cynthia Erivo, David Holzman’s Diary, David Spade, denial, dictators, documentaries, Down in the Delta, drama, dramady, dysfunction, Edward Dmytryk, Edward G. Robinson, Elio Petri, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone, Eric Rohmer, exploitation, families, fascism, fathers and sons, FBI, films, forensics, Fox News, Françoise Fabian, Frank Ferguson, Frank Sinatra, Fred Rogers, Fritz Lang, Gene Kelly, genocide, George Reeves, Geraldo Rivera, Gian Maria Volonté, Girl With the Green Eyes, Glenn Ford, Gretchen Carlson, grief, Harriet, Harriet Tubman, Having a Wild Weekend, Herbie Hancock, heroism, Holland Taylor, Holocaust, ideas, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jaime Sánchez, Jane Fonda, Jay Roach, Jean Louis Trintignant, Jeanine Pirro, Jim McBride, John Boorman, John Hamm, John Lithgow, journalism, Juano Hernandez, Jules Munshin, justice, Kate McKinnon, Kathy Bates, Kathy Scruggs, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lauren Lapkus, Laurence Harvey, Leonard Bernstein, Life During Wartime, love, Luis Buñuel, Lynn Redgrave, Malcolm McDowell, Margot Robbie, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marketa Kimbrell, Marlene Dietrich, Matthew Rhys, Maya Angelou, media, Megyn Kelly, Mel Ferrer, mercenaries, Mississippi, mocumentaries, mothers of the disappeared, movies, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, murder, musicals, My Night at Maud’s, Nazism, Netflix, New Orleans, New York, Nicole Kidman, Nostalgia For the Light, obsession, Olivia Wilde, On the Town, opinion, outlaws, Paul Reubens, Paul Walter Hauser, people, personalities, Peter Finch, policing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, power, prostitution, PTSD, Rancho Notorious, Raymond St. Jacques, relationships, revenge, reviews, Richard Jewell, Richard Kind, Rita Tushingham, road trips, Rob Schneider, Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Robert Wise, rock and roll, Rod Steiger, Roger Ailes, romance, Rupert Murdoch, Russell Johnson, sailors, satire, Saul Bass, scandal, science, sexism, Shirley Henderson, Sidney Lumet, slander, slavery, spoofs, Stanley Donen, surrealism, survivor’s guilt, technology, terrorism, The Big Carnival, The Dave Clark Five, The Pawnbroker, The Phantom of Liberty, the press, the underground railroad, The Violent Men, The Wrong Missy, Todd Solondz, Tom Hanks, Tom Junod, trauma, Vera-Ellen, Walk on the Wild Side, Walter Brennan, westerns, William Frawley, workplace abuse, World War II | 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 (93): The Films of November 2019

Posted on July 17, 2021 by KPKeelan

. November! So many great movies in this batch! I (heart) cinema! (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 action, addiction, American culture, animation, Ann Margaret, anti-Semitism, Anton Yelchin, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aparajito, Ben is Back, Bette Davis, biography, camp, Can Can, cartoons, change, charity, Chuck Jones, class, Cole Porter, comedy, crime, Damon Runyan, Dashiell Hammett, death, dignity, drama, Edward Everett Horton, Ewan McGregor, fame, families, family films, fantasy, fascism, Female Trouble, Frank Capra, Frank Sinatra, fraud, friendship, Glenn Ford, Griffin Davis, growth, Hitler, Hope Lange, humor, I Love You Phillip Morris, Indian cinema, inmates, intolerance, Jean Renoir, Jim Carrey, John Waters, Jojo Rabbit, Julia Roberts, kindness, kitsch, life, Lillian Hellman, Louis Jourdan, love, Lucas Hedges, Maurice Chevalier, media, Mel Blanc, Mel Ferrer, metaphor, morality, mothers and sons, murder, musicals, Nazis, Norton Juster, Olivia Cooke, Pather Panchali, Paul Lucas, Paul Sparks, people, Peter Falk, Pocketful of Miracles, poverty, prisoners, relationships, resistance, romance, Sam Rockwell, satire, Satyajit Ray, Scaramouche, Shirley MacLaine, social class, Stewart Granger, swashbucklers, swordplay, Taika Waititi, The Phantom Tollbooth, The World of Apu, Thoroughbreds, Watch on the Rhine, World War II | Leave a comment

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KPK on the CINEMA (139): “The Films of September 2023”

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FLIX PIX (869): “Fritz Lang Composes the Perfect Noir in THE BIG HEAT”

KPK on the CINEMA (122): The Films of April 2022

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