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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 (327): “LADY IN THE LAKE is a Classic!”

Posted on January 29, 2022 by KPKeelan

LADY IN THE LAKE (directed by Robert Montgomery, 1947) ***** (out of 5) . > Quintessential noir gumshoe Phillip Marlow as you’ve never (barely) seen him! . The great Robert Montgomery directs, and plays the archetypal hardboiled private dick in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged criticism, film noir, films, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady in the Lake, movies, opinion, Phillip Marlow, reviews, Robert Montgomery | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (97): The Films of March 2020

Posted on July 21, 2021 by KPKeelan

. March 2020 came in like a lamb… went out like a lion! This world we have taken for granted may never be the same again. One good thing about this social distancing, shelter in place era… Plenty of time … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged addiction, adventure, Africa, Agnes Moorehead, Amazon Prime, American Film Institute, animal abuse, Anne Wiazemsky, Arthur Laurents, Au Hasard Balthazar, ballooning, Barbary Coast, Bernhard Goetzke, Brian Keith, British cinema, brutality, burlesque, Canadian cinema, Captain Ahab, cattle, Charlotte Rampling, Clara Bow, classics, Come Inside My Mind, comedians, cowboys, crime, Crimean War, Dark Passage, David Hemmings, Delmer Daves, documentaries, Dr. Mabuse The Gambler, drama, Eddie Redmayne, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Morris, experimental film, families, farmers, farming, Felicity Jones, film noir, filmmaking, French cinema, Fritz Lang, Geraldine Chaplin, Guy Maddin, Gypsy, Gypsy Rose Lee, history, Humphrey Bogart, hypnotism, Ida Lupino, Isabella Rossellini, Jack Elam, Jack London, James Stewart, Jean Renoir, John Barrymore, John Garfield, John Gielgud, Jule Styne, Juliet Mills, Karl Malden, Lauren Bacall, Les Blank, Lewy Body Dementia, life, Mathieu Amalric, Maureen O’Hara, Michael Curtiz, military disasters, Moby Dick, murder, musicals, mysteries, Natalie Wood, Night Must Fall, Parkinson's disease, pirates, Poor Little Rich Girl, Robert Bresson, Robert Montgomery, Robin Williams, romance, Rosalind Russell, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, rural America, San Francisco, short films, showbusiness, silent films, Stephen Sondheim, storytelling, strippers, success, suicide, surrealism, survival, Tabu, The Aeronauts, The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Criterion Channel, The Forbidden Room, The Rare Breed, The Sea Wolf, The Southerner, thrillers, Tony Richardson, Trevor Howard, Udo Kier, Vanessa Redgrave, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, westerns | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (35): The Films of NOVEMBER 2014

Posted on May 20, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > NOVEMBER 2014: 28 films this go-round, from all 6 “THIN MAN” films through Charlie Chaplin’s final film. Along the way: modern science fiction, political intrigue, old Mel Brooks, new X-Men, classic horror, fevered romance, high seas adventure, hip … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Most Wanted Man, adventure, After the Thin Man, Alejandro Iñárritu, Another Thin Man, arts, Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Birdman, Casey Affleck, Charlie Chaplin, Christian Bale, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Nolan, cinema, Claire Booth, classics, cliches, Days of Future Past, Dead and Loving It, Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Divorce American Style, Edge of Tomorrow, Edward Norton, Elizabeth Olsen, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Ender's Game, film criticism, films, Forest Whitaker, Fred Zinnemann, Harrison Ford, Harvey Corman, How to Draw a Bunny, Ian McKellen, ideas, Interstellar, It Came From Outer Space, James MacAvoy, Jim Jarmusch, John Hawkes, John Hurt, John le Carre, John Malkovich, John Wayne, Julia Roberts, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leslie Neilson, Limelight, Long John Silver, Marlon Brando, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Mary Reilly, Matthew McConaughey, Maureen O’Sullivan, Meet the Feebles, Mel Brooks, mental illness, Michael Caine, Michael Fassbender, Michael Keaton, Mike Nichols, movies, Myrna Loy, Naomi Watts, Nick and Nora Charles, Norman Lear, Only Lovers Left Alive, opinion, Out of the Furnace, Patrick Stewart, Peter Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, PTSD, Ray Bradbury, Ray Johnson, revenge, reviews, Richard Carlson, Robert Montgomery, Robert Newton, romance, Sam Shepard, Shadow of the Thin Man, soldiers, Song of the Thin Man, Stephen Frears, Steven Weber, The Black Swan, The Fly, The Men, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home, Tilda Swinton, Tom Cruise, Tom Hiddleston, United Artists, Viola Davis, Wake of the Red Witch, William Powell, wit, World War II, X-Men, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: Robert Montgomery

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

FLIX PIX (327): “LADY IN THE LAKE is a Classic!”

KPK on the CINEMA (97): The Films of March 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (35): The Films of NOVEMBER 2014

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