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FLIX PIX (845): “THE LIGHTHOUSE Sheds a Blinding Light on the Madness of Isolation”

Posted on October 15, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE LIGHTHOUSE (directed by Robert Eggers, 2019) ****+ (out of 5) . > Holy fucking cow, this is a powerhouse! . I was absolutely enthralled with director Richard Eggers’ debut film THE WITCH in 2015, and nipping at the bit to … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, criticism, drama, entertainment, films, ideas, insanity, isolation, James Pattinson, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, loneliness, madness, mermaids, movies, opinion, psychological drama, relationships, reviews, Robert Eggers, sailors, supernatural, The Lighthouse, Willem Dafoe | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (780): “Ingmar Bergman Gazes THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY”

Posted on September 13, 2022 by KPKeelan

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1961) ****+ (out of 5) . > I saw this early Bergman import sometime around 1975, as a callow young cinephile of nineteen. . I had just discovered “foreign” films, and after seeing … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, criticism, drama, families, films, ideas, Ingmar Bergman, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, madness, Max Von Sydow, mental illness, movies, opinion, reviews, Sven Nyquist, Svensk Filmindustri, Swedish cinema, Through a Glass Darkly, tragedy | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

Posted on April 19, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > MARCH 2022! TIME MARCHES ON! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) (All titles in PURPLE have been expanded for Flix Pix columns.) > This month I … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Big Hand For the Little Lady, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, addiction, AFI, Al Pacino, Alan Hale, Alana Haim, American Film Institute, animation, Ansel Elgort, Aretha Franklin, Ariana DeBose, Arthur O'Connell, arts, Audra McDonald, Aunjanue Ellis, backstage musicals, Benny Safdie, Bhutanese cinema, biography, Bradley Cooper, British cinema, Burgess Meredith, Buster Keaton, Catherine Deneuve, Charles Bickford, Charlotte Rampling, child abuse, Christine Ebersole, cinema, cliches, Clint Eastwood, comedies, comedy, coming of age, Cooper Hoffman, crime, criticism, Cry Macho, Danielle Haim, Dave Bautista, David Alvarez, Denis Villeneuve, Disney, drama, drifters, Dune, Dwight Yokam, Eileen Brennan, Elizabeth Hartman, entertainment, epics, escapes, Este Haim, families, fantasy, films, Forest Whitaker, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Herbert, Fred Gwynne, friendship, gambling, gangs, Gary Goetzman, Gene Hackman, gentrification, George DiCaprio, Geraldine Page, gospel, Grant High School, Haim, Harriet Sansom Harris, Henry Fonda, Herman Munster, Hollywood, Hume Cronyn, ideas, insanity, irony, Italy, Jack Gilford, Jason Momoa, Jason Robards, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Hudson, Jerry Schatzberg, Joanne Woodward, Joel Wachs, John B. Sebastian, John C. Reilly, John Michael Higgins, John Randolph, Jon Peters, Josh Brolin, Karen Black, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, King Richard, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonard Bernstein, Licorice Pizza, Luca, Lucille Ball, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, madness, Marlon Wayans, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Rudolph, melodrama, mental illness, mentoring, Mexico, Michael Hordern, movies, musical, musicals, musicians, New York City, opinion, Oscar Isaac, parenting, Paul Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Kastner, Phil Silvers, Pixar, prisoners, psychological drama, Rachel Zegler, relationships, remakes, Repulsion, respect, reviews, Richard Williams, Rip Torn, road trips, Roman Polanski, romance, Romeo and Juliet, rural life, San Fernando Valley, Scarecrow, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Penn, Serena Williams, sex, sex comedy, singers, slapstick, soul music, sports films, stardom, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Spielberg, success, supernatural, Tail o’ the Cock, teachers, teaching, tennis, The Broadway Melody, There Was a Crooked Man, Timothée Chalamet, tragedy, Venus Williams, violence, Warren Oates, West Side Story, westerns, Will Smith, William Holden, You’re a Big Boy Now, Yours Mine and Ours, Zendaya, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

Posted on December 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > This month we get a serving of silent German expressionism from Fritz Lang, an effervescent modern musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, a handsome American period piece from George Clooney, an early schlock film from Francis Coppola, one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Adam Driver, American history, Anthony Ramos, Arthur Kennedy, arts, B-movies, Barry Fitzgerald, betrayal, biography, Black Girl, boxing films, British cinema, brothers, Bruce Dern, Bruno Ganz, Burt Lancaster, cargo cults, Champion, change, cinema, Colin Firth, colonialism, comedy, commitment, Communism, corruption, crime, criminal masterminds, criticism, dancing, David McCallum, David Strathairn, Dean Stockwell, death, dementia, Dementia 13, demonization, Dennis Hopper, detectives, drama, dreams, economics, Edward R. Murrow, emigration, England, English cinema, entertainment, ethnicity, experimental films, exploitation, fighters, film noir, filmmaking, films, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Langella, Freud, Fritz Lang, gay couples, genius, George Clooney, German cinema, Good Night and Good Luck, growth, Henry Jaglom, hopes, horror, horses, House Un-American Activities Committee, Howard Duff, HUAC, hypnosis, hysteria, I Walk Alone, ideas, illness, immigrants, imperialism, In the Heights, incarceration, inmates, insanity, Ireland, Jeff Daniels, Jimmy Smits, John Huston, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph McCarthy, journalism, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, life, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lizabeth Scott, love, madness, Marc Anthony, Matthias Schoenaerts, medicine, memory loss, mental illness, metafiction, Michelle Phillips, Miguel de Cervantes, Montgomery Clift, movies, murder, musicals, mystery, neighborhoods, New York, opinion, Patricia Clarkson, Patrick Magee, people, Peru, Peter Fonda, police procedural, politics, prisoners, psychological drama, racism, Ray Wise, reform, rehabilitation, relationships, revenge, reviews, Robert Downey Jr., romance, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Russ Tamblyn, Samuel Fuller, Sancho Panza, Senegal, Senegalese cinema, Sigmund Freud, silent films, singing, slasher films, Spain, spies, Stanley Tucci, Stellan Skarsgård, Supernova, Susannah York, television, Terry Gilliam, the American dream, The American Friend, The Last Movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Mustang, The Naked City, The Secret Passion, therapy, thrillers, Toni Basil, tragedy, villains, violence, Washington Heights, Wim Wenders | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (114): The Films of August 2021

Posted on November 7, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > THIS MONTH: Disney animation, Judy Holliday comedies, sly social satire, stark drama, film noir, experimental cinema, tales of obsession and coming of age, and vacuous British pop romance from the swinging sixties. (Sorry, no gothic horror documentaries this … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged abstract, action, adultery, adventure, aging, Alan Tudyk, Anna Faris, Anthony Hopkins, Asif Mandvi, autocrats, Awkwafina, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Kingsley, Black Jack, British cinema, business, Carroll Baker, childhood, Chris Elliot, Chris Parnell, Clash by Night, classics, comedy, coming of age, corruption, crime, cults, Darling, dementia, depression, Diane Ladd, Dirk Bogarde, Disney animation, Doris Roberts, drama, Edward Norton, experimental film, families, fantasy, farce, female empowerment, film noir, Florian Zeller, fraud, Fred Armisen, Fritz Lang, Full of Life, George Cukor, grief, heroines, His Kind of Woman, humor, Imogen Poots, independent films, infidelity, Jack Carson, Jack Garfein, Jack Lemmon, Jane Russell, Jean Stapleton, Jim Backus, John C. Reilly, John Schlesinger, Judy Holliday, Julie Christie, Kathryn Hahn, Kelly Marie Tran, Ken Loach, Kim Novack, Laurence Harvey, life, London, love, madness, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Robson, marriage, memory loss, Monterey California, myth, Nasim Pedrad, Olivia Coleman, Paul Douglas, period pieces, Phffft, pregnancy, quests, Ralph Meeker, rape, Raya and the Last Dragon, Raymond Burr, relationships, Richard Conte, Richard Quine, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, romance, Rufus Sewell, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sandra Oh, satire, Schizopolis, sex, sexism, shareholders, slapstick, Something Wild, Southeast Asian culture, Steven Soderbergh, surrealism, The Dictator, The Father, The Marrying Kind, the sixties, The Solid Gold Cadillac, tragedy, trauma, trust, Vincent Price | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (91): The Films of September 2019

Posted on July 15, 2021 by KPKeelan

. September! Not a bumper crop, because I devoted myself to the HBO juggernaut CHERNOBYL as well, and then began wading into a 7-hour Soviet version of WAR AND PEACE… More evidence of the insidious influence of Russia? (All ratings … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: madness

FLIX PIX (845): “THE LIGHTHOUSE Sheds a Blinding Light on the Madness of Isolation”

FLIX PIX (780): “Ingmar Bergman Gazes THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY”

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

KPK on the CINEMA (114): The Films of August 2021

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