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FLIX PIX (1000): “THE PAWNBROKER is Searing Drama From Yesteryear”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE PAWNBROKER (directed by Sidney Lumet, 1964) ***** (out of 5) . > I remember watching this on broadcast television when I was just a kid, really. I’m guessing the year was 1969 or ’70, and it was among the very … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged alienation, anti-Semitism, arts, Brock Peters, cinema, concentration camps, crime, criticism, drama, entertainment, films, Holocaust, ideas, isolation, Jaime Sánchez, Juano Hernandez, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Marketa Kimbrell, movies, Nazism, opinion, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, racism, Raymond St. Jacques, reviews, Rod Steiger, Sidney Lumet, Sol Nazerman, stereotypes, survivor’s guilt, The Pawnbroker, tragedy, trauma, 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 (85): The Films of March 2019

Posted on July 9, 2021 by KPKeelan

. March!! (I take neither blame nor credit.) Go forward, Time! (Not like we can do much about it anyway…) (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Arctic, Ari Aster, art, Arthur Penn, Beautiful Boy, Beethoven, Ben Affleck, biography, Bonnie and Clyde, Brian de Palma, capers, cartooning, Charlie Human, China, Chris Pine, cinema, Clifford Odets, cold war, crime, death, disability, Don’t Worry, drama, England, espionage, exploitation, families, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, Florence Pugh, Friedrich Shiller, Funeral in Berlin, Gabriel Byrne, Garrett Hedlund, Gladys Aylward, grief, Gus Van Sant, Harry Palmer, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, heists, Hereditary, history, hitmen, Hollywood, horror, Iceland, Ida Lupino, ideas, infidelity, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Black, Jack Palance, Joaquin Phoenix, John Callahan, Jonah Hill, Kathy Bates, Kevin Costner, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, law enforcement, loss, love, Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Bello, melodrama, Michael Caine, Michael Sheen, Miss Macbeth, movies, music, Netflix, opinion, Oscar Isaac, Outlaw King, Pedro Pascal, period pieces, Polar, power, relationships, reviews, Robert Donat, Robert the Bruce, Rod Steiger, romance, royalty, Scotland, secret agents, sex, Shelley Winters, spies, Stig Olin, studio moguls, success, suicide, supernatural, survival, The Big Knife, The Highwaymen, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, thrillers, To Joy, Toni Collette, tragedy, Triple Frontier, violence, webcomics, wilderness, William Sadler, Woody | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (30): The Films of JUNE 2014

Posted on May 15, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > JUNE 2014: 35 films reviewed here: from a desperate and compelling Romanian drama about the fierceness of a mother’s love, to a live-action comic book about a brooding mutant confronting his private grief while kicking ass. That’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 3 Idiots, A Field in England, Akira Kurosawa, Angela Davis, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Mann, Atiq Rahini, Ben Wheatley, Bono, books, Burn, Cahill U.S. Marshall, Child's Pose, Chris Rock, Christina Ricci, cinema, criticism, David Thewlis, Dersu Uzala, Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun, Emily Watson, Enough Said, entertainment, Ernest & Celestine, Farley brothers, film criticism, films, Forest Whitaker, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, Gary Cooper, Geoffrey Rush, George Kennedy, Good Hair, Gus Van Sant, Guy Maddin, Her, Holocaust, Hugh Jackman, James Gandolfini, Jason Biggs, Jeremy Davies, Jimmy Stewart, Joaquin Phoenix, John Huston, John Wayne, Johnny Depp, Jose Ferrer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Keelan, Kingpin, KPK, KPKeelan, Kurt Cobain, Last Days, Lauren Bacall, Lena Olin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Like Someone in Love, Luminita Gheorghiu, Mackenzie Foy, Malificent, Michael Curtiz, Michael Pitt, Milla Jovovich, Million Dollar Hotel, Moulin Rouge, movies, Nazis, Noises Off, opinion, Otto Preminger, Paul Giamatti, persecution, Peter Bogdanovich, Randy Quaid, reading, reviews, Rod Steiger, Roman Polanski, Scarlett Johansson, Sissy Spacek, Spike Jonze, Stuyvesant High School, Susannah York, The Book Thief, The Comancheros, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Far Country, The Killing of Sister George, The Ninth Gate, The Patience Stone, The Wolverine, Tim's Vermeer, tragedy, Waiting For Armageddon, Walter Brennan, Whoopi Goldberg, William H. Macy, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen, Woody Harrelson, World War II, X-Men 2 United, Zsa Zsa Gabor | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Rod Steiger

FLIX PIX (1000): “THE PAWNBROKER is Searing Drama From Yesteryear”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (85): The Films of March 2019

KPK on the CINEMA (30): The Films of JUNE 2014

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