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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 →

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FLIX PIX (1131): “It’s Time to Get Older and STOP MAKING SENSE!”

Posted on October 9, 2023 by KPKeelan

. STOP MAKING SENSE (directed by Jonathan Demme, 1984) ***** (out of 5) . > Okay Sherman! Strap yourself in to the Wayback Machine and set the date for 1983. . Revisit with me, a golden time when we still had … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Chris Frantz, cinema, classics, concerts, criticism, David Byrne, documentaries, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Jerry Harrison, Jonathan Demme, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, music, opinion, reviews, rock and roll, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, the eighties, Tina Weymouth | Leave a comment

PITHY PIFFLE 2023: (37) (David Byrne)

Posted on February 5, 2023 by KPKeelan

* “I’m afraid that God has no master plan. He only takes what he can use.” (David Byrne/TALKING HEADS: “The Facts of Life”) * * *

Posted in PITHY PIFFLE | Tagged David Byrne, humor, ideas, insight, KPKworld, philosophy, quotes, Talking Heads, wisdom, wit | 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 (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

Tag Archives: Talking Heads

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

FLIX PIX (1131): “It’s Time to Get Older and STOP MAKING SENSE!”

PITHY PIFFLE 2023: (37) (David Byrne)

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

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

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