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Tag Archives: San Francisco
QuickPix (37): “Great FILM NOIR For You to Savor, Vol. 1”
> 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 →
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Tagged anti-Semitism, Bradford Dillman, Call Northside 777, classics, Compulsion, corruption, crime, Crossfire, Dean Stockwell, film noir, Illinois, James Stuart, justice, KPKworld, law enforcement, melodrama, Orson Welles, police procedural, Richard Basehart, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Robert Wise, Robert Young, San Francisco, The House on Telegraph Hill, trauma, true stories, World War II
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KPK on the CINEMA (115): The Films of September 2021
. > THREE 4-and-a-half star movies? That’s a bountiful month! (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 columns. This … Continue reading →
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Tagged 9-11, A Quiet Place Part II, Al-Qaeda, aliens, American politics, arts, Bartosz Bielenia, Benedict Cumberbatch, biography, Body Double, Brian de Palma, buddies, Canada, Canadian cinema, Canadian history, Cillian Murphy, cinema, comedy, coming of age, conspiracies, Corpus Christi, corruption, Craig Wasson, crime, criticism, Cutter’s Way, detective stories, Djimon Hounsou, drama, Emily Blunt, enhanced interrogation, entertainment, extreme rendition, fantasy, films, forgiveness, fraud, genius, gig economy, Gitmo, homeland security, horror, horses, humor, ideas, imposters, inmates, Jane Wyman, Jeff Bridges, Jodie Foster, John Heard, John Krasinski, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kevin Macdonald, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lapsis, Lee J. Cobb, Los Angeles, Love and Monsters, Matthew Rankin, Melanie Griffith, melodrama, military, Millicent Simmonds, Mohamedou Ould Salahi, morality, movies, murder, noir, opinion, policy, Polish cinema, prisoners, punishment, rehabilitation, religion, revenge, reviews, romance, San Francisco, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, Shailene Woodley, spirituality, surrealism, suspence, suspense, technology, terrorism, The Man Who Cheated Himself, The Mauritanian, The Mustang, The Twentieth Century, thrillers, torture, true stories, violence, war crimes, war on terror
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FLIX PIX (155): “Enter This DARK PASSAGE to Thrilling Noir!”
DARK PASSAGE (directed by Delmer Daves, 1947) ***** (out of 5) . > Wow. This film noir is as good as any Hollywood film I have ever seen. . So glad I finally got around to it! DARK PASSAGE is … Continue reading →
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Tagged Agnes Moorehead, art, cinema, classics, crime, Dark Passage, Delmer Daves, drama, entertainment, film criticism, film noir, films, Humphrey Bogart, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lauren Bacall, movies, mysteries, opinion, reviews, San Francisco, suspense, thrillers
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KPK on the CINEMA (113): The Films of July 2021
. This month: Fantasy! Film Noir! Psychological Drama! Comedy! Superheroes! Biblical Silliness! Biography! Animation! Environmental Disaster! Crime and Punishment at the F.B.I.! Another coming-of-age story from Judd Apatow! Social Satire from Jean Renoir! A serial murderer on the loose! The … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1906, action, American history, Angela Lansbury, animation, art, Bible stories, biblical epics, Billy Cook, biography, Black Panthers, Body and Soul, Boudu Saved From Drowning, boxing, California history, Chris Pine, cinema, Clark Gable, class, comedy, comic book characters, corruption, crime, criticism, D.W. Griffith, Daniel Kaluuya, death, Death Takes a Holiday, disaster films, Don Hertzfeldt, drama, earthquakes, entertainment, experimental, F.B.I., fantasy, film noir, films, France, Frederick March, French cinema, Gal Godot, genius, George Sanders, George Tobias, Grim Reaper, Hedy Lamarr, Herbert Anderson, heroes, heroines, Ida Lupino, ideas, illness, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Jean Renoir, Jean Seberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Jesse Plemons, John Garfield, Judas and the Black Messiah, Kevin Keelan, kidnapping, killers, Kirsten Wiig, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, LaKeith Stanfield, Lilith, love, Lynda Carter, Martin Sheen, mental illness, movies, murder, musicals, opinion, Pablo Pascal, Percy Anderson, Peter Fonda, race, redemption, reviews, Robert Rossen, Robert Ryan, Robert Wise, romance, Samson and Delilah, San Francisco, Spenser Tracy, superheroes, supernatural, The Hitch-Hiker, the meaning of life, The Set-Up, Victor Mature. D. W Griffith, W. S. Van Dyke, Walk a Crooked Mile, Warren Beatty, Wonder Woman 1984
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KPK on the CINEMA (97): The Films of March 2020
. 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 →
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KPK on the CINEMA (83): The Films of January 2019
. ALL HAIL A NEW YEAR OF MOVIES, MOVIES, MOVIES! (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 →
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Tagged Abbas Kiarostami, action, adoption, aging, Aiden Gillen, AIDS, allegations, Amanda Seyfried, American history, Angela Lansbury, animation, Anthony Mackie, art, Barry Jenkins, Ben Whishaw, Benecio del Toro, Benedict Cumberbatch, biography, bisexuality, Black Panther, Black Widow, Blake Lively, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bradley Cooper, Brazilian cinema, Brian May, Brue Dern, Bryan Singer, Captain America, Chadwick Boseman, Chappaquiddick, childhood, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, cinema, class, Colin Firth, comic books, conservation, controversy, courtroom dramas, crime, crisis, D.O.A., dancing, Dave Bautista, David Fletcher, David Ives, David Warner, degradation, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Disneynature, Doctor Strange, Don Cheadle, drama, ecology, Ed Helms, Edmund O’Brien, Edward Kennedy, Elizabeth Olsen, Ellen Burstyn, Emily Blunt, Emily Mortimer, Emma Stone, Emmanuelle Seigner, England, environment, Ethan Hawke, ethics, excess, fame, families, fantasy, fertility, film noir, films, First Reformed, Freddy Mercury, French cinema, gender, Ghost in the Mountains, Golden Globes, Guardians of the Galaxy, Gwilym Lee, Gwyneth Paltrow, Harrison Ford, historical drama, HIV, Idris Elba, If Beale Street Could Talk, immortality, inequality, Infinity War, Io, Iranian cinema, Iron Man, Israeli cinema, James Baldwin, James Cromwell, Japanese cinema, Jason Clarke, Jim Gaffigan, Joe Kennedy, Josh Brolin, Josh Gad, Judaism, Julie Waters, justice, Kate Hudson, Kate Mara, Kathryn Hahn, Kevin Keelan, KiKi Layne, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Live Aid, love, Mark Ruffalo, Marshall, Marvel Studios, Mary Jo Kopechene, Mary Poppins Returns, Mathieu Amalric, Meryl Streep, Michiel Huisman, Mike Meyers, morality, movies, murder, music, musicals, musicians, nature, Netflix, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman, opinion, Oscars, P.T. Travers, Paul Bettany, Paul Giamatti, Paul Schrader, period pieces, Peter Dinklage, photography, politics, power, Private Life, Queen, Queen Anne, race, Rachel Weisz, racism, Rami Malek, rape, relationships, religion, reviews, rivalry, Robert Downey Jr., rock 'n' Roll, Roman Polanski, romance, S & M, San Francisco, Scarlett Johansson, science fiction, Senator Ted Kennedy, sequels, sex, sexism, sexuality, Shoplifters, singing, snow leopards, Spider-Man, spirituality, Stan Lee, Stephan James, Sterling K. Brown, success, suicide, superheroes, Tamara Jenkins, Taste of Cherry, terrorism, Thanos, The Age of Adaline, The Avengers, The Favourite, The Hulk, The Second Mother, The Women’s Balcony, Thor, Thurgood Marshall, Tom Holland, tragedy, Venus in Fur, Vin Diesel, Vision, War Machine, wildlife, William Hurt, Yorgos Lanthimos, Zoe Saldana
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