Tag Archives: New Orleans

FLIX PIX (1102): “Jane Fonda and Laurence Harvey WALK ON THE WILD SIDE”

Posted on August 8, 2023 by KPKeelan

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (directed by Edward Dmytryk, 1962) **** (out of 5) . > The opening and closing credits Saul Bass created for this Edward Dmytryk film could not have better presaged the sensational melodrama to come. . They … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Anne Baxter, arts, cinema, criticism, drama, Edward Dmytryk, Elmer Bernstein, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Jane Fonda, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laurence Harvey, melodrama, movies, New Orleans, opinion, prostitution, reviews, romance, Saul Bass, Walk on the Wild Side | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (704): “The Glories and Heartbreak of GLEASON”

Posted on August 6, 2022 by KPKeelan

GLEASON (directed by J. Clay Tweel, 2016) ****+ (out of 5) . > I don’t suppose Morgan Spurlock regularly updates his list of “50 Best Documentaries of All Time”, but the arrival of this amazing document of ex-football star and disability … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged ALS, art, biography, cinema, criticism, documentaries, families, films, football, Gleason, history, ice water challenge, ideas, J. Clay Tweel, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, New Orleans, opinion, philanthropy, relationships, reviews, Saints, sports, suffering, Team Gleason, traumatic brain injury | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (655): “A Spellbinding Trip to TCHOUPITOULAS”

Posted on July 12, 2022 by KPKeelan

TCHOUPITOULAS (directed by Turner Ross & Bill Ross IV, 2012) ****+ (out of 5) . > This unpronounceable film is a near-perfect slice-of-life documentary about three poor, black brothers from New Orleans out on the town for a night. . … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Bill Ross IV, cinema, Cinema Verite, criticism, culture, documentaries, films, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, movies, New Orleans, opinion, reviews, Tchoupitoulas, Turner Ross | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (524): “MINE: Pets Left Behind After Hurricane Katrina”

Posted on May 8, 2022 by KPKeelan

MINE (directed by Geralyn Pezanoski, 2009) **** (out of 5) . > This is an appropriately-titled documentary look at the pets left behind unwillingly by their human wards when Hurricane Katrina forced their sudden evacuation from New Orleans. . Naturally, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged animal rescue, art, cinema, criticism, documentaries, films, Geralyn Pezanoski, Hurricane Katrina, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mine, movies, New Orleans, opinion, pets, reviews | 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 (69): The Films of NOVEMBER 2017

Posted on June 23, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Well, that was an enjoyable month’s worth of movies. Look at all the 4-and-a-half star films! Fab. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Hitchcock, American Honey, Amy Adams, animal rescue, animation, anime, art, Billy Bob Thornton, Blackmail, Blade Runner 2049, Bolivia, Charles Laughton, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, Claude Rains, Colin Farrell, comedies, crime, criminals, Cyril Ritchard, Daniel Brühl, Danny Boyle, Daphne De Maurier, Denis Villeneuve, documentaries, drama, Drunken Angel, Edward James Olmos, elections, Elijah Wood, Elle Fanning, epics, Evo Morales, Ewan McGregor, feudalism, films, Frances McDormand, gangsters, grifters, Harrison Ford, Hayao Miyazaki, heroin addiction, history, humor, Humphrey Bogart, Hurricane Katrina, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK, Jamaica Inn, James Carville, Japanese cinema, Jared Leto, Jessica Chastain, Kevin Keelan, Kirsten Dunst, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Louisiana, Martin McDonough, Maureen O’Hara, Melanie Lynskey, melodrama, mental health, metaphor, Michael Curtiz, Mine, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day, movies, Nazis, New Orleans, Nicole Kidman, noir, opinion, Our Brand is Crisis, Park Chan-wook, Passage to Marseille, Peter Lorre, Peter Straughan, pets, Poland, political campaigns, politics, Princess Mononoke, reviews, Ridley Scott, Robert Newton, Ryan Gosling, Sam Rockwell, Sandra Bullock, Santa Sangre, Sasha Lane, science fiction, Sean Young, sequels, Shia LaBeouf, Sofia Coppola, Studio Ghibli, surrealism, Sydney Greenstreet, symbolism, T2 Trainspotting, Takashi Shimura, The Beguiled, the Civil War, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, thrillers, Toshiro Mifune, violence, Woody Harrelson, World War II, Yakuza, youth | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: New Orleans

FLIX PIX (1102): “Jane Fonda and Laurence Harvey WALK ON THE WILD SIDE”

FLIX PIX (704): “The Glories and Heartbreak of GLEASON”

FLIX PIX (655): “A Spellbinding Trip to TCHOUPITOULAS”

FLIX PIX (524): “MINE: Pets Left Behind After Hurricane Katrina”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (69): The Films of NOVEMBER 2017

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