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FLIX PIX (1207): “King Vidor Brings STREET SCENE to the Screen”

Posted on March 17, 2024 by KPKeelan

STREET SCENE (directed by King Vidor, 1931) ***+ (out of 5) . > King Vidor adapted this Pulitzer Prize-winning Elmer Rice play for the screen, and it is a busy film. . Rice’s play focuses on one day-in-the-life of ordinary poor … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, class, criticism, drama, Elmer Rice, entertainment, families, films, Flix Pix, ideas, immigrants, infidelity, Kevin Keelan, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, New York, opinion, people, reviews, Street Scene, Sylvia Sidney | Leave a comment

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 (1043): “24 Hours of Shore Leave ON THE TOWN”

Posted on April 4, 2023 by KPKeelan

ON THE TOWN (directed by Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1949) ****+ (out of 5) . > With fun tunes from lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green and additional score by Leonard Bernstein, this is a near classic Hollywood musical that … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Adolph Green, Aldolph Green, Alice Pearce, Ann Miller, arts, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, cinema, comedies, criticism, films, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, ideas, Jim McBride, Jules Munshin, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonard Bernstein, movies, musicals, New York, On the Town, opinion, reviews, sailors, Stanley Donen, Vera-Ellen | 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

FLIX PIX (939): “David Byrne’s Blissful AMERICAN UTOPIA Will Knock Your Socks Off”

Posted on December 1, 2022 by KPKeelan

AMERICAN UTOPIA (directed by Spike Lee, 2020) ****+ (out of 5) . > Oh! Emmys or Oscars, either way or both: I foresee David Byrne and Spike Lee grinning widely and holding shiny awards for this blissful concoction of heady delights. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged American Utopia, arts, Broadway, cinema, concert films, criticism, David Byrne, fantasy, films, genius, HBO, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, music, musicals, New York, opinion, performance, reviews, Spike Lee, Talking Heads | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (118): The Films of December 2021

Posted on February 20, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > Another December- another year-end rush of great movies! (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) > This month I have some fun reviewing the following … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 007, A Rainy Day in New York, Aardman Studios, absurdism, abuse, action, Adam McKay, addiction, Adrien Brody, Alejandro Jodorowsky, animation, Anjelica Huston, Anthony Bourdain, Ariana Grande, Arthur Hiller, Ashleigh Banfield, Australian cinema, B-movies, Ben Whishaw, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benicio Del Toro, Bill Murray, biography, Bob Balaban, Bob Cummings, brainwashing, British secret service, California, Cartoon Salon, Cate Blanchett, Charlton Heston, Cherry Jones, childhood, children, children of deaf adults, Chris Evans, Christoph Waltz, cinema, Coda, comedies, comedy, coming of age, conflict, conformity, cooking, corporate influence, criticism, culture, Dakota Johnson, Daniel Craig, death, Demián Bichir, depression, Diego Luna, Diego Maradona, Dirk Bogarde, disaster films, documentaries, Don Pedro Colley, Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Up, Down’s Syndrome, drama, economics, Edward Norton, Elisabeth Moss, Elle Fanning, Emilia Jones, English cinema, entertainment, Ernst Lubitsch, espionage, estrangement, Eugenio Derbez, experimentation, exploitation, families, family, family drama, Fando y Lis, fantasy, fate, Filippo Scotti, film criticism, filmmaking, films, folktales, football, forgiveness, Frances McDormand, friendship, German cinema, global warming, grief, Henry Winkler, Hermione Gingold, Himesh Patel, humor, Ian Fleming, ideas, improvisation, independent films, individuality, Irish cinema, Irish folklore, isolation, Italian cinema, Italy, James Bond, James Franciscus, Jane Campion, Jason Schwartzman, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Plemons, John Cassavetes, John Hawkes, Jonah Hill, Jude Law, Julieta, Karl Malden, Keenan Wynn, Keith Carradine, Kevin Keelan, Kiersten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, land, Lashana Lynch, Léa Seydoux, legends, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leslie Caron, Liev Schreiber, life, Liiev Schreiber, Linda Harrison, Locksmith Animation, Lois Smith, manipulation, Mark Rylance, marketing, Marlee Matlin, Marlon Brando, Mathieu Amalric, Meryl Streep, metaphor, Mexican cinema, mind control, Monterey, mothers and daughters, movies, Naomie Harris, Naples, New York, New York City, No Time to Die, One Eyed Jacks, opinion, Owen Wilson, Paolo Sorrentino, Pedro Almodovar, peer pressure, people, personalities, pro wrestling, Promise Her Anything, psychological drama, race, Ralph Finnes, Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, relationships, research, revenge, reviews, road trips, Roadrunner, Robin Wright, robots, romance, Ron Perlman, Ron’s Gone Wrong, Rory Kinnear, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Silverman, sci-fi, science, science fiction, Selena Gomez, self esteem, sequels, Shadows, Shia LaBeouf, silent films, soccer, social criticism, social media, social satire, Spanish cinema, spies, suicide, supernatural, superstition, surrealism, survival, symbolism, technology, The Doll, The French Dispatch, The Hand of God, The Mind Benders, The Peanut Butter Falcon, The Power of the Dog, Thomas Haden Church, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, tragedy, travel, Troy Kotsur, Tyler Perry, values, Victor Buono, Warren Beatty, Wes Anderson, westerns, Willem Dafoe, William Peter Blatty, Wolfwalkers, Woody Allen, Zach Galifianakis, Zack Gottsagen | 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 (104): The Films of October 2020

Posted on July 28, 2021 by KPKeelan

. OCTOBER 2020: Some wonderful stuff here! Bon Appétit. (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 Pix columns.) > … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Call to Spy, A Woman’s Face, Aardman Studios, abortion, abuse, action, adventure, aliens, ambition, American Utopia, Amos Nachoum, Andrei Tarkovsky, animals, animation, anti-Semitism, apocalypse, art, astronauts, Aulcie, Aulcie Perry, basketball, Beau Travail, Bill Paxton, Billy Budd, biography, Birdboy, British cinema, Broadway, brothers, capitalism, Cary Grant, celebrity, Channing Tatum, childhood, children, choices, cinema, Claire Denis, class, classics, Claymation, Clint Eastwood, Columbia, comedies, coming of age, complicity, concert films, Coney Island, conservation, corruption, Countdown, courage, crime, criticism, cruelty, David Attenborough, David Byrne, David McKenzie, discipline, documentaries, drama, dreams, drug abuse, earth, economics, Edgar Buchanan, elegy, Elmer Rice, emeralds, environment, equality, Erland Josephson, espionage, Ewan McGregor, exploitation, exposés, families, family films, fantasy, farm animals, Farmageddon, films, Foreign Legion, Frederick Wiseman, French cinema, French resistance, George Stevens, government, Grace Kelly, Green Fire, hardship, Hate Among Us, hatred, Haywire, HBO, healthcare, heroes, historical drama, human rights, humor, ideas, immigrants, incarceration, infidelity, Ingrid Bergman, injustice, insanity, institutions, James Caan, jealousy, Jean Arthur, justice, Ken Loach, Kevin Keelan, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, Life On Our Planet, Little Fugitive, machismo, medicine, mental health, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, mining, missions, movies, musicals, NASA, nature, Nazis, neglect, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, New York, oceans, opinion, people, personalities, photographers, photography, polar bears, poverty, puns, redemption, rescues, revenge, reviews, Rex Ingram, Richard Burton, Richie Andrusco, Robert Altman, Robert Duvall, romance, Ronald Coleman, Sarah Megan Thomas, sci-fi, science fiction, Shaun the Sheep, Sorry We Missed You, space program, Spanish cinema, spies, Spike Lee, sports, Steven Soderbergh, Stewart Granger, Street Scene, surrealism, survival, suspense, sustainability, Swedish cinema, Sylvia Sidney, Talking Heads, The Forgotten Children, the moon, The Picture of His Life, The Sacrifice, The Talk of the Town, thrillers, Titicut Follies, tragedy, trauma, treatment, violence, warnings, Where Eagles Dare, wildlife, women, working, 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

“Patti Smith Remembers Robert Mapplethorpe in JUST KIDS” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on March 6, 2020 by KPKeelan

. > I brought this autobiography of Patti Smith’s life with artistic soulmate Robert Mapplethorpe with me to Ireland for some vacation reading and enjoyed it very much- though I did find it a bit of a mixed bag. . … Continue reading →

Posted in WHAT- ME BLOVIATE? | Tagged Andy Warhol, art, Billy Name, books, fashion, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, memoirs, memory, New York, opinion, Patti Smith, photography, poetry, Robert Mapplethorpe, rock and roll, stories, Tom Verlaine, William Burrows | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: New York

FLIX PIX (1207): “King Vidor Brings STREET SCENE to the Screen”

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

FLIX PIX (1043): “24 Hours of Shore Leave ON THE TOWN”

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

FLIX PIX (939): “David Byrne’s Blissful AMERICAN UTOPIA Will Knock Your Socks Off”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (104): The Films of October 2020

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

“Patti Smith Remembers Robert Mapplethorpe in JUST KIDS” (by KPKeelan)

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