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FLIX PIX (1022): “A Deep Listen Into LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE”

Posted on February 17, 2023 by KPKeelan

LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE (directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2019) ***+ (out of 5) . > At one point in my post-pubescent development, I had a poster of Linda Ronstadt above my bed. On it, she … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, criticism, entertainment, films, ideas, Jeffrey Friedman, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Linda Ronstadt, movies, musical biographies, musicians, opinion, Parkinson's disease, pop music, reviews, Rob Epstein, rock 'n' Roll, singers, success, the seventies, The Sound of My Voice | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (187): “The Violent Resistance of THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by KPKeelan

THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX (directed by Uli Edel, 2008) **** (out of 5) . > Terse, tense action-packed dramatization of leftwing extremist group “RAF”, who took to violent means to promote their revolutionary agenda in what was at the time, the West … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Bruno Ganz, drama, German cinema, history, RAF, terrorism, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, the seventies, thrillers, Uli Edel, violence | 2 Comments

KPK on the CINEMA (95): The Films of January 2020

Posted on July 19, 2021 by KPKeelan

. January 2020! A new decade that will no doubt be filled by great movies… If the world can survive tRumpism… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 1917, A Hidden Life, Above Suspicion, abuse, action, Adam Roarke, Alfred Molina, Ari Aster, art, August Diehl, Austria, B-movies, Basil Rathbone, Bell Book and Candle, belonging, bigotry, Billion Dollar Brain, biography, Bong Joon-ho, Bruno Ganz, bullying, California, car chases, Cary Grant, cinema, cinematography, class, classics, Clifford Irving, cold war, comedies, comic books, conscience, credit, crime, criticism, Dean-Charles Chapman, deceit, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, drama, duty, economics, Ed Begley, Edward Everett Horton, Elsa Lanchester, epics, Ernie Kovacs, exploitation films, family, fantasy, films, Florence Pugh, Fort Apache, Fred MacMurray, friendship, gentrification, George Cukor, George MacKay, Ginger Rogers, Gotham City, greed, Gregory Peck, Harry Palmer, Henry Fonda, Henry King, Hermione Gingold, Holiday, horror, House of Wax, Howard Hughes, identity, identity theft, impostors, income inequality, Indians, injustice, Intruder in the Dust, Jack Lemmon, Joan Crawford, Joaquin Phoenix, John Ford, John van Druten, John Wayne, Joker, justice, Karl Malden, Katherine Hepburn, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kim Novak, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Linda Ronstadt, love, lynching, magic, Man With a Million, Mark Twain, metaphor, Michael Caine, Midsommar, money, movies, murder, music, musicians, mysteries, native Americans, Nazis, neighborhoods, origin stories, Parasite, Parkinson's disease, Peter Fonda, Phillip Barry, pop music, poverty, prejudice, racism, Ray Milland, Red Skelton, relationships, reviews, Richard Gere, Richard Thorpe, rituals, Robert De Niro, rock 'n' Roll, romance, Sam Mendes, sex, Shirley Temple, singers, spies, success, Susan George, Sweden, Terrence Malick, The Gunfighter, The Hoax, The King of Comedy, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Major and the Minor, The Million Pound Note, the seventies, The Sound of My Voice, thrillers, Todd Phillips, Valerie Pachner, villains, Vincent Price, violence, Wally Benton, warlocks, wealth, westerns, Whistling in the Dark, William Faulkner, witchcraft, witches, World War I, World War II, zealotry | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (92): The Films of October 2019

Posted on July 16, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Rocktober! My favorite month. Another birthday and great weather in Santa Cruz by the sea. Welcome back, autumn. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 56 Up, A Private War, Aaron Paul, Abbas Kiarostami, action, Ad Astra, adventure, aging, animals, Antonino Banderas, aristocracy, art, Ash is Purist White, betrayal, biography, black culture, blacksploitation, Brad Pitt, Breaking Bad, Brian Wilson, Britain, Bryan Cranston, Bryce Dallas Howard, change, Charlotte Rampling, child abuse, children, China, Chinese cinema, Chris Parnell, Chris Pratt, cinema, classics, comedy, conflict, corruption, crime, crops, David Crosby, dinosaurs, documentaries, Dolemite Is My Name, Donald Sutherland, drama, Echo in the Canyon, Eddie Murphy, El Camino, epics, Eric Clapton, escape, families, fantasy, farmers, farming, fathers, film criticism, films, financial fraud, Fiona Apple, gangsters, Gary Oldman, gender roles, genetics, Geraldine Chaplin, Graham Nash, Hale County This Morning This Evening, HBO, historical fiction, humor, Iranian culture, J.A. Bayona, Jackson Browne, Jakob Dylan, James Cromwell, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Fox, Jia Zhangke, John Sebastian, journalism, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Keira Knightley, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laura Dern, Laurel Canyon, Leo Tolstoy, life, Liv Tyler, Los Angeles, love, Marie Colvin, Matthew Heineman, memory, mental health, Meryl Streep, Michael Apted, Michelle Phillips, movies, music, musicians, nationalism, nature, Netflix, Norah Jones, nostalgia, obsession, opinion, parenting, Paul Conroy, people, performing, period pieces, Polish cinema, politics, privilege, Ralph Fiennes, Ramell Ross, rape, revenge, reviews, Ringo Starr, rock and roll, Roger McGuinn, romance, Rosamund Pike, science fiction, sequels, Sergei Bondarchuk, Seven Up series, shame, Sharon Stone, shell companies, social class, Soviet cinema, space travel, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Stills, Steven Soderbergh, success, survival, suspense, sustainability, the 1960’s, The Biggest Little Farm, The Duchess, the human condition, The Laundromat, the Panama papers, the seventies, The Tale, time, Toby Jones, Tom Petty, Tommy Lee Jones, USSR, values, Vince Gilligan, violence, war, War and Peace, Weather Forecast, Where is the Friends House?, Will Forte | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (79): The Films of September 2018

Posted on July 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. A brand new month, a brand new crop o’ films! A lifetime love of movies. (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and must be over a decade old to get that 5 star designation.) (Titles in … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 12, 12 Angry Men, A Street Cat Named Bob, Adam Driver, addiction, Alec Baldwin, Alexander Payne, Ali Fazal, Anna Kendrick, art, Asim Abbasi, Ben Foster, biography, Blackkklansman, blacksploitation, Born in China, buskers, Cake, China, Christian Bale, cinema, comedy, corruption, criticism, Dave Franco, David Duke, Denis Villeneuve, destruction, disaster films, Disneynature, documentaries, doppelgangers, Downsizing, drama, Eddie Izzard, Enemy, extinction, films, Forest Whitaker, Fred Armisen, genocide, golden monkeys, Harry Belafonte, Hillary Swank, history, Hostiles, How It Ends, ideas, India, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Bowen, Jennifer Aniston, Jesse Plemons, John C. Reilly, John David Washington, John Krakowski, John Maclean, Judi Dench, juries, justice, Kat Graham, Kate Micucci, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Luke Treadaway, Matt Damon, Michael Buscemi, Michael Fassbender, Michael Gambon, Michael Peña, movies, murder, Natural disasters, nature, Nick Offerman, Nikita Mikhalov, Olivia Williams, opinion, overpopulation, pandas, police brutality, psychological thrillers, racism, reviews, Roger Spottiswoode, Ron Stallworth, Rosamund Pike, Russian cinema, Sam Worthington, sci-fi, Scott Cooper, Simon Callow, singers, Slow West, snow leopards, special effects, Spike Lee, success, surrealism, The Decameron, The Homesman, the Indian Wars, the Ku Klux Klan, The Little Hours, the seventies, Theo James, Tommy Lee Jones, Topher Grace, tragedy, Victoria & Abdul, Wes Studi, westerns, wildlife | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: the seventies

FLIX PIX (1022): “A Deep Listen Into LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE”

FLIX PIX (187): “The Violent Resistance of THE BAADER-MEINHOF COMPLEX”

KPK on the CINEMA (95): The Films of January 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (79): The Films of September 2018

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