Tag Archives: Richard Burton

FLIX PIX (1205): “BOOM! is the Sound of Tennessee Williams Imploding”

Posted on March 15, 2024 by KPKeelan

BOOM! (directed by Joseph Losey, 1968) ** (out of 5) . > Richard Burton and Liz Taylor in a melodrama penned by Tennessee Williams and directed by Joseph Losey? Okay. I’ll bite. . I found this strange overheated melodrama on YouTube- … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Boom, cinema, criticism, death, drama, Elizabeth Taylor, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Joseph Losey, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Noel Coward, opinion, reviews, Richard Burton, Tennessee Williams | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (143): “The Films of January 2024”

Posted on February 1, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > January is always a busy movie month for me, as I make my annual effort to see as many of the nominated movies as I can before the annual Oscar ceremony rolls ‘round. This year I was far ahead … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged abuse, Adrian Belew, adventure, alcoholism, Alex Sharp, American Fiction, Amy Poehler, Anatomy of a Fall, Andes, animation, anthropophagy, apocalypse, Arthur Hunnicutt, arts, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, bands, Beck Bennett, Bicycle Thieves, Big Sur California, Bill Bruford, black comedy, black holes, blind swordsman, Burt Lancaster, cannibalism, capers, children, Chilean cinema, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chloe Grace Moretz, Chris Pine, Christian Friedel, Christopher George, cinema, Claire Denis, classics, comedies, comedy, coming of age, Cord Jefferson, corruption, courtroom drama, crime, criticism, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Hopper, dignity, disaster, disasters, documentary, drama, dramady, Dub Taylor, dystopia, Earl Holliman, Ed Asner, Ed Helms, El Conde, El Dorado, Elizabeth Taylor, Elle Fanning, empowerment, entertainment, Erika Alexander, erotic drama, ethics, Eva Marie Saint, evil, existentialism, experimental, experimental films, exploitation, faith, families, fantasy, film noir, films, French cinema, Gene Hackman, Good Morning, Hannah Arendt, Harry Belafonte, High Life, High Sierra, history, Holocaust, honor, horror, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Howard Hawks, Hugh Laurie, I Died a Thousand Times, Icelandic cinema, ideas, In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, Jack Palance, James Caan, Japanese cinema, Jean Negulesco, Jeffrey Tambor, Jeffrey Wright, John Cameron Mitchell, John Krasinski, John Wayne, Johnathan Glazer, Juliette Binoche, Justine Triet, Kaneto Shindō, Kevin Keelan, Kiefer Sutherland, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Late Autumn, Lee Marvin, Leslie Uggams, Lilies of the Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Margot Robbie, Marilyn Monroe, marriage, matchmaking, Mia Goth, Monsters Vs. Aliens, Mouchette, movies, music, musicians, mystery, Nadine Nortier, nature, Nazis, Neil Gaiman, Nichole Kidman, Nimona, Onibaba, opinion, Otto Preminger, outer space, Pablo Larraín, partnering, Paul Rudd, Paula Luchsinger, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, performance, personalities, Peru, plane crashes, Polish cinema, political satire, poverty, progressive rock, publishing, race, racism, Rainn Wilson, Ralph Nelson, Reese Witherspoon, relationships, religion, remakes, Renée Zellweger, reviews, Richard Burton, Riz Ahmed, Robert Bresson, Robert Fripp, Robert Mitchum, Robert Pattinson, romance, Rory Calhoun, Rudolf Höss, RuPaul Charles, Ruth Wilson, Sandra Hüller, Sarah Sherman, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, Scott Wilson, Seth Rogan, Shelly Winters, Shintaro Katsu, Shirley MacLaine, skydiving, slow cinema, South America, Spanish cinema, Stanley Adams, Stephen Colbert, stereotypes, Sterling K. Brown, supernatural, survival, television, The Count, The Gypsy Moths, The River of No Return, The Sandpiper, The Society of Snow, The Tale of Zatoichi, The Zone of Interest, thrillers, Toby Amies, tolerance, Tommy Rettig, tragedy, true stories, Two For the Seesaw, vampires, westerns, Will Arnett, William Windom, World War II, Yakuza, Yasujirō Ozu, Z For Zachariah | Leave a comment

QuickPix (8): “Great FANTASIES For You to Savor, Vol. 1”

Posted on January 5, 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 Anthony Quinn, Bible stories, Christianity, Cinemascope, classics, epics, Errol Flynn, fantasy, George Sanders, Henry King, Long John Silver, Maureen O’Sullivan, piracy, pirates, Richard Burton, Robert Newton, romance, sequels, spectacle, swashbucklers, swordplay, The Adventures of Don Juan, The Black Swan, The Robe, Treasure Island, Tyrone Power | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

Posted on November 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > This month: a Noël Coward comedy of manners, a previously unseen Hitchcock thriller, a return to seminal swashbucklers of my youth, the Greatest Concert Film Ever Made, a silly Marx Brothers lark, Tracy and Hepburn meet Elia Kazan, … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged adventure, Africa, African safaris, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, American Indians, Angel on My Shoulder, Angie Dickinson, animation, Ann Margaret, Anne Baxter, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Perkins, appearances, Aramis, Archie Mayo, artists, arts, Athos, Australian outback, Ava Gardner, Barry Corbin, Beauty and the Beast, Bobby Rydell, British cinema, Bye Bye Birdie, celebrities, celebrity, Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Frantz, cinema, Clark Gable, class, classics, Claude Rains, collectives, comedies, comedy, concerts, corruption, crime, criticism, D'Artagnan, Dan Duryea, David Byrne, Dead Ringer, Dean Stockwell, Dick Van Dyke, divorce, documentaries, drama, Dyan Cannon, dysfunctional relationships, Ed Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Elemental, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Elke Sommer, empowerment, England, entertainment, epics, espionage, exploitation, fables, fairy tales, fame, fantasy, farming, feuds, films, France, Frank Finlay, fraud, French cinema, game trafficking, George Sidney, Go West, God, good and evil, Grace Kelly, greed, Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, HBO, Herbert Ross, Hume Cronyn, humor, Ian McShane, ideas, infidelity, injustice, intrigue, Jack White, James Colburn, James Garner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Jean Cocteau, Jerry Harrison, Jesse Plemons, Jessica Tandy, Joan Hackett, John Ford, John Lithgow, John Qualen, Jonathan Demme, Joseph Cotton, justice, Karen Morley, Karl Malden, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, Killers of the Flower Moon, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Last Stop Larrimah, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Lionel Barrymore, love, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, marriage, Martin Scorsese, Marx brothers, Maureen Stapelton, Melvyn Douglas, Michael York, Mogambo, morality, movies, murder, music, musicals, mystery, Noel Coward, Norma Shearer, Norman Jewison, Oliver Reed, opinion, Orson Welles, Osage Nation, Our Daily Bread, Paddy Moriarty, Paul Lynde, Paul Muni, personalities, Pete Yorn, Pixar, Porthos, poverty, Private Lives, privilege, racism, Raquel Welch, redemption, relationships, reviews, rich and famous, Richard Benjamin, Richard Burton, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Robert De Niro, Robert Montgomery, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, Satan, Shadow of a Doubt, slapstick, small towns, socialism, Spencer Tracy, spies, Stephen Sondheim, Stop Making Sense, stunts, supernatural, survival, suspense, swashbuckling, Talking Heads, Tay Garnett, Terrence Rattigan, The Art of Love, the eighties, The Four Musketeers, the great depression, The Last of Sheila, The Sea of Grass, The Three Musketeers, The V.I.P.s, The Valley of Decision, Thornton Wilder, Tina Weymouth, Tom Keene, tragedy, violence, westerns, whodunnit | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1094): “Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood Venture WHERE EAGLES DARE”

Posted on July 21, 2023 by KPKeelan

WHERE EAGLES DARE (directed by Brian G. Hutton, 1968) **** (out of 5) . > I liked this flick a lot when I saw it in the theaters at 11 or 12 years old, but there was plenty of tension to … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged action, arts, Brian G. Hutton, cinema, Clint Eastwood, criticism, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, missions, movies, Nazis, opinion, rescues, reviews, Richard Burton, spies, suspense, thrillers, Where Eagles Dare, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (127): “The Films of September 2022”

Posted on January 16, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > Once more, fellow cinephiles- into the fray! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) > This month I review the following 6 films: AFTER THE FOX … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged After the Fox, Anders Danielsen Lie, Anne Boylen, Anne of the Thousand Days, Anthony Quale, arts, baseball, Britt Eklund, Burt Bacharach, celebrity, cinema, classics, comedy, crime, criticism, Danish cinema people, drama, drugs, English history, entertainment, espionage, families, farce, filmmaking, films, Flix Pix, Genevieve Bujold, Giancarlo Giannini, guilt, Guy Pearce, heists, history, humor, ideas, Irene Papas, Jeff Daniels, Joachim Trier, justice, Kevin Keelan, King Henry VIII, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Mark Strong, Matt Damon, Maxwell Anderson, Michael Hordern, Moe Berg, movies, murder, Neil Patrick Harris, Nicolas Cage, opinion, Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Pedro Pascal, Peter Sellers, relationships, Renate Reinsve, reviews, Richard Burton, romance, satire, stardom, Stillwater, The Catcher Was a Spy, The Hollies, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Worst Person in the World, Tiffany Haddish, Tom McCarthy, Tom Wilkinson, tragedy, Victor Mature, Vittorio de Sica, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (119): “The Films of January 2022”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > We survived 2021?? How the fuck did THAT happen??? (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Adam Driver, adventure, American politics, Americana, Andrew Garfield, animation, anthologies, artists, arts, B. B. King, Barbara Stanwyck, Being the Ricardos, Belfast, Ben Johnson, biographies, biography, black culture, Blackstar, Boom, British Agent, British cinema, carnies, carnival midway, Catholics, celebrity, Cesar Romero, Cherry Jones, childhood, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, civil rights, classics, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, comedy, coming of age, con artists, concerts, conflict, Crete, crime, Cybill Shepherd, cynicism, David Bowie, death, Desi Arnaz, Disney, division, documentaries, documentary, drama, Edward Arnold, Eileen Brennan, Eli Wallach, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen Burstyn, entertainment, Ernst Lubitsch, espionage, evangelism, exploitation, film criticism, film noir, films, Frank Capra, fraud, French cinema, French history, Gary Cooper, George Clooney, German cinema, Gladys Knight & the Pips, grifters, Guillermo Del Toro, Haley Mills, Harlem, Harlem Cultural Festival, heists, historical drama, history, Hollywood couples, honor, House Un-American Activities Commission, HUAC, hubris, ideas, insight, Ireland, Irish playwrights, Irish politics, J.K. Simmons, Jack Cardiff, Jack MacGowran, Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Davies, Jerry Falwell, Jessica Chastain, Jim Baker, Jim Bakker, Joan Blondell, John Ford, Joseph Losey, Jude Hill, Judi Dench, Julie Christie, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lazarus, Lenin, Leslie Howard, Lucille Ball, Maggie Smith, manipulation, marriage, Matt Damon, Max Roach, Meet John Doe, memory, Michael Curtiz, mind control, movies, music, Natascha McElhone, Nicole Kidman, Nightmare Alley, Nina Simone, Noel Coward, Northern Ireland, opinion, patriotism, Peter Bogdanovich, politics, populism, Protestants, Questlove, race, Randy Quaid, rape, red scare, relationships, religion, remakes, reviews, Richard Burton, Ridley Scott, rivalry, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, satire, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Seán O'Casey, silent films, Sly & the Family Stone, small towns, Solaris, soul music, spies, spiritualism, Sterling Holloway, Steven Soderbergh, Stevie Wonder, success, suggestions, Summer of Soul, surrealism, Tammy Faye Bakker, Tennessee Williams, Texas, the 5th Dimension, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The House, The Last Duel, The Last Five Years, The Last Picture Show, The Moon-Spinners, The Next Day, The Oyster Princess, The Plow and the Stars, the Russian revolution, the Staples Singers, the troubles, Timothy Bottoms, tribalism, Tyrone Power, Vincent D’Onofrio, Viola Davis, violence, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised, Young Cassidy | 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 (29): The Films of MAY 2014

Posted on May 14, 2021 by KPKeelan

* MAY 2014: 22 films: from horror classics (CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON) to great modern documentaries (ONLY THE YOUNG). Some great stuff here, but a number of great let-downs too. Can’t say I chose as well as usual this … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Alec Guinness, Australian cinema, Before the Rain, Betty Garrett, Blake Edwards, Bob Fosse, Brendan Gleeson, Cary Grant, childhood, Cicely Tyson, cinema, coming of age, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Dark Passage, Dave Grohl, Defamation, Desi Arnez, Dick York, drama, Elizabeth Mims, Elizabeth Taylor, entertainment, Escape From Fort Bravo, Fear and Trembling, film criticism, films, Four Lions, Humphrey Bogart, Indiscreet, Ingrid Bergman, Is the Man Who is Tall Happy, Jack Lemmon, James Earl Jones, Janet Leigh, Jason Tippet, John Boorman, Kevin Keelan, Kim Mordaunt, Kinyarwanda, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laos, Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, Lucille Ball, Michel Gondry, movies, My Sister Eileen, Noam Chomsky, Only the Young, opinion, Peter Ustinov, Poison Friends, Preston Sturges, Rade Šerbedžija, redemption, refugees, reviews, Richard Attenborough, Richard Burton, Robert Wise, Roscoe Lee Brown, Sound City, Steve McQueen, Stranger By the Lake, superstition, Sylvie Testud, The Comedians, The Long Long Trailer, The Parking Lot Movie, The Rocket, The Salt of Life, The Sand Pebbles, The Tiger's Tail, They Might Be Giants, tragedy, Vincente Minnelli, Yoav Shamir | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Richard Burton

FLIX PIX (1205): “BOOM! is the Sound of Tennessee Williams Imploding”

KPK on the Cinema (143): “The Films of January 2024”

QuickPix (8): “Great FANTASIES For You to Savor, Vol. 1”

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

FLIX PIX (1094): “Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood Venture WHERE EAGLES DARE”

KPK on the CINEMA (127): “The Films of September 2022”

KPK on the CINEMA (119): “The Films of January 2022”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (29): The Films of MAY 2014

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