Tag Archives: Imitation of Life

QuickPix (50): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 17”

Posted on January 31, 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 Émile Zola, Cary Grant, Douglas Sirk, drama, Dreyfus affair, Howard Hawks, I Accuse, Imitation of Life, Jean Arthur, John Gavin, Jose Ferrer, Lana Turner, Milena Smit, Only Angels Have Wings, Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Rita Hayworth, Sandra Dee, Spanish Civil War, Thomas Mitchell | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1062): “IMITATION OF LIFE Had a Lot to Say About Race Relations in America, For 1934”

Posted on May 14, 2023 by KPKeelan

IMITATION OF LIFE (directed by John M. Stahl, 1934) ***** (out of 5) . > This is the first go-round of a story that was remade to great acclaim in the late 50’s by ‘women’s filmmaker’ Douglas Sirk. . In fact, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, bigotry, cinema, Claudette Colbert, criticism, drama, entertainment, exploitation, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Imitation of Life, John M. Stahl, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Louise Beavers, movies, Ned Sparks, opinion, racism, relationships, reviews, Turner Classic Movies, women | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (129): “The Films of November 2022”

Posted on February 3, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > Still writing furiously in November of 2022, so I only treated myself to a film every 3 days or so. I did manage to see two absolutely terrific films though. Read on to see which films they were… (All … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Adrien Brody, aliens, animation, artists, arts, Asian Americans, B-movies, Barry Keoghan, Bela Lugosi, biography, Brendan Gleeson, Brett Morgan, camp, Carl Reiner, celebrity, cinema, Colin Farrell, Colin Powell, comedy, coming of age, crime, criticism, culture, David Bowie, David Oyelowo, Disney, documentaries, Douglas Sirk, drama, dramas, Drive My Car, Ed Wood, Elliott Gould, emotional maturity, entertainment, family, films, friendship, grief, growing up, healing, history, hormones, horror, Ida Lupino, ideas, Imitation of Life, Irish cinema, Japanese cinema, John Gavin, Kerry Condon, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lana Turner, life, loss, love, marriage, Mel Brooks, memories, mental illness, Moonage Daydream, movies, murder, music, mystery, New York, Nicholas Ray, noir, nostalgia, On Dangerous Ground, opinion, philosophy, Pixar, Plan 9 From Outer Space, race, redemption, regret, relationships, remakes, restaurants, reviews, Robert Ryan, rock and roll, rock stars, rural Ireland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sam Rockwell, San Fernando Valley, Sandra Dee, Saoirse Ronan, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, See How They Run, The Automat, The Banshees of Inisherin, tragedy, trauma, Turning Red, Vampira, whodunnit, women | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (99): The Films of May 2020

Posted on July 23, 2021 by KPKeelan

. MAY 2020 and the “shelter-in-place” lockdown drones on… Seeing boatloads of great films, but too much sitting down! Starting to feel like the film reviewer’s equivalent of John Lennon’s complaint “I’ve got blisters on me fingers!”- only that’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Brighter Summer Day, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Molina, Anne Bancroft, art, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Hiller, bank robberies, banned films, Ben Gazzara, capers, censorship, cinema, classics, Claudette Colbert, comedies, coming of age, Constance Towers, controversy, crime, criticism, Dan Duryea, Dean Stockwell, death, Denholm Elliott, Dick Shawn, divorce, drama, drug dealing, Ed Asner, Ed Begley, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Young, Emil Jannings, England, environmental illness, erotica, ethics, experimental film, families, family, family films, fantasy, Fay Wray, feudal Japan, feudalism, film noir, films, folklore, French cinema, Fritz Lang, futurism, gangs, Gary Oldman, Geoffrey Chaucer, German cinema, grief, H. G. Welles, HAL, HarBel Productions, Harry Belafonte, heists, Holy Rollers, horror, humanity, I Am Curious (Yellow), ideas, Imitation of Life, injustice, Irène Jacob, irony, Italian cinema, Japanese cinema, jealousy, Jean Louis Trintignant, Jesse Eisenberg, Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Ford, John Wayne, Jonathan Winters, Joseph Losey, Julianne Moore, Julie Delpy, Juliette Binoche, justice, Justin Bartha, Keir Dullea, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Lena Nyman, Louise Beavers, love, masterpieces, Meantime, metaphor, Mike Leigh, miracles, morality, murder, Natalie Wood, Ned Sparks, obsession, Odds Against Tomorrow, opinion, Orthodox Jews, Pat O'Brien, peace, Penelope, people, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Falk, Phil Daniels, Pier Pasolini, pimps, power, racism, revenge, reviews, Robert Ryan, Robert Wise, Roland Young, romance, Ronin, Safe, Saint Jack, samurai, Sanjuro, Sansho the Bailiff, Scarlet Street, science fiction, sex, sexuality, silent films, Singapore, slavery, smuggling, socialism, Stanley Kubrick, suicide, suspense, Swedish cinema, Sydney Pollack, Taiwan, Telly Savalas, Thatcherism, The Boy With Green Hair, The Canterbury Tales, The Circus, the Civil War, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Most Dangerous Game, The Slender Thread, Three Colours: Blue, Three Colours: Red, Three Colours: White, Tim Roth, Todd Haynes, Toshiro Mifune, tragedy, trilogies, Turner Classic Movies, Variety, Vilgot Sjöman, violence, William Holden, women, World War II, youth, Zbigniew Zamachowski | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Imitation of Life

QuickPix (50): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 17”

FLIX PIX (1062): “IMITATION OF LIFE Had a Lot to Say About Race Relations in America, For 1934”

KPK on the CINEMA (129): “The Films of November 2022”

KPK on the CINEMA (99): The Films of May 2020

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