Tag Archives: Mel Ferrer

FLIX PIX (1212): “Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins Are Lovers in GREEN MANSIONS”

Posted on March 22, 2024 by KPKeelan

GREEN MANSIONS (directed by Mel Ferrer, 1959) *** (out of 5) . > This romantic-adventure is drenched in the cinematic kitsch of 1959. It’s as corny as they come. . A miscast Anthony Perkins plays a man fleeing the political violence … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged adventure, Anthony Perkins, arts, Audrey Hepburn, cinema, criticism, drama, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, Green Mansions, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Henry Silva, ideas, identity, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee J. Cobb, Mel Ferrer, movies, mystery, native tribes, opinion, reviews, romance, Sessue Hayakawa, Venezuela | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1090): “Fritz Lang Goes West in: RANCHO NOTORIOUS”

Posted on July 13, 2023 by KPKeelan

RANCHO NOTORIOUS (directed by Fritz Lang, 1952) ****+ (out of 5) . > Fritz Lang makes a western! Huzzah! I love westerns and I love the films of Fritz Lang. . Despite an unbelievably horrible opening song that just made me … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Arthur Kennedy, arts, cinema, crime, criticism, drama, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, Frank Ferguson, Fritz Lang, George Reeves, ideas, Jack Elam, justice, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Ferrer, movies, murder, opinion, outlaws, Rancho Notorious, revenge, reviews, Russell Johnson, westerns, William Frawley | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (947): “A Simplistic Look at Race Relations and Human Sexuality in THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL”

Posted on December 5, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL (directed by Ranald MacDougall, 1959) **** (out of 5) . > Harry Belafonte had a production company for a brief time in the late ‘50’s. “HarBel” Productions (Get it?), only made two features, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, bigotry, cinema, competition, criticism, drama, entertainment, films, Harry Belafonte, ideas, Inger Stevens, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mel Ferrer, movies, nuclear apocalypse, opinion, power, racism, Ranald MacDougall, reviews, sex, The World the Flesh and the Devil | 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 (98): The Films of April 2020

Posted on July 22, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > April 2020 saw me focusing on films by two of the most durable, respected icons of the cinema- black actors whose intrinsic dignity and integrity made them role models for millions of African Americans and other ethnicities who … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged actors, addiction, Adolfo Celi, Al Gore, Alain Delon, alcoholism, angels, anti-Semitism, Bibi Anderson, bigotry, Bill Wise, Bobby Darin, Boris Karloff, Brigitte Bardot, Britannia Hospital, British cinema, Britt Ekland, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, Carl Theodor Dryer, Chuck Connors, cinema, classics, climate, comedy, corruption, crime, criminals, Dennis Weaver, Diahann Carroll, directors, documentaries, drama, Duel at Diablo, Duke Ellington, dysfunction, ecology, Edgar Allen Poe, Edge of the City, Edward G. Robinson, environmentalism, expressionism, faith, families, fantasy, Federico Fellini, films, French cinema, Fritz Lang, gangsters, Gary A. Patton, German cinema, God, gun violence, Harry Belafonte, hatred, history, horror, Hubert Cornfield, ideas, immigrants, Inger Stevens, Israel, Jack Warden, James Garner, Jane Fonda, jazz, Jeff Gibbs, Jews, Joanne Woodward, John Cassavetes, John Ford, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jules Verne, Kevin Keelan, killers, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Krisha Fairchild, labor, László Kovács, life, Lindsay Anderson, Live and Become, loss, Louis Armstrong, Louis Malle, love, Malcolm McDowell, Martin Ritt, Mel Ferrer, Metzengerstein, Michael Moore, Mick Travis trilogy, migrants, misogyny, mistaken identity, movies, murder, musicians, mystery, Nazism, Neil Hefti, No Way Out, nuclear apocalypse, oceans, Operation Moses, opinion, Otto Wernicke, Paris Blues, Paul Newman, people, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Falk, Peter Fonda, Peter Sellers, Planet of the Humans, politics, power, Pressure Point, racism, Ralph Nelson, Reseda Drive-In Theater, reviews, Richard Widmark, Robert Ryan, Robert Wiene, Roger Vadim, Rudolf Klein, satire, sexism, showbusiness, Sidney Poitier, silent films, snipers, Spirits of the Dead, suspense, Targets, Terence Stamp, The Angel Levine, The Bobo, The Hands of Orlac, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Whole Town’s Talking, the world, The World the Flesh and the Devil, thrillers, Tim O’Kelly, Toby Dammit, Trey Edward Shults, vampires, Vampyr, violence, westerns, white supremacy, William Wilson, xenophobia, Zero Mostel | 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

Tag Archives: Mel Ferrer

FLIX PIX (1212): “Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins Are Lovers in GREEN MANSIONS”

FLIX PIX (1090): “Fritz Lang Goes West in: RANCHO NOTORIOUS”

FLIX PIX (947): “A Simplistic Look at Race Relations and Human Sexuality in THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL”

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

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