Tag Archives: Walter Brennan

FLIX PIX (203): “Drama on THE BARBARY COAST”

Posted on November 4, 2021 by KPKeelan

THE BARBARY COAST (directed by Howard Hawks & William Wyler, 1935) ***** (out of 5) . > Howard Hawks directed this classic 5-star melodrama. . It tells the tale of a good man (pure as the driven snow Joel McCrea), … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Ben Hecht, cinema, Edward G. Robinson, film criticism, films, Howard Hawks, Joel McCrea, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Miriam Hopkins, movies, opinion, reviews, The Barbary Coast, Walter Brennan, William Wyler | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (117): “William Wyler’s Classic Oater: THE WESTERNER”

Posted on August 10, 2021 by KPKeelan

THE WESTERNER (directed by William Wyler, 1940) ***** (out of 5) . > As with most all great American westerns, this wonderful William Wyler film is the story of a highly moral man who clashes with a sociopath: a megalomaniac egoist … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged cinema, criticism, entertainment, film, Gary Cooper, Judge Roy Bean, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lily Langtry, movies, opinion, reviews, suggestions, The Westerner, Walter Brennan, William Wyler | 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 (40): The Films of APRIL 2015

Posted on May 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. I saw 30 films in April 2015. Best. Month. Ever. Renewing my focus on “classic” cinema, I have never watched so many 5-star gems in one month: 12 of them! I was transfixed by treasures from the likes of John … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 3 Days of Peace and Music, 3 Godfathers, Aaron Aronofsky, Alec Guinness, Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Magnani, arts, Ben Affleck, Brian Keith, Busby Berkeley, Buster Keaton, Carson McCullers, Cary Grant, Celine Dion, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Plummer, cinema, Cinema Verite, Claudette Colbert, Cleopatra, Cloak and Dagger, Dan Steven, Danny Trejo, David Fincher, Diane Baker, Diane Lane, documentaries, Edmund Gwenn, Edward Dmytryk, Elizabeth Taylor, Emma Watson, Fata Morgana, Father Goose, film criticism, films, For Me and My Gal, Frank Capra, Frank Langella, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Genevieve Bujold, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, George Roy Hill, Gone Girl, Gregory Peck, HBO, ideas, IMAX, Jack Weston, James Cromwell, James Gandolfini, James Mason, James McAvoy, Jeff Goldblum, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Broadbent, Joanne Woodward, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, Josh Groban, Julie Harris, Katherine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Gaga, Le Week-End, Leif Erickson, Lindsay Duncan, Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Mann, Mirage, Miranda Richardson, movies, Muppets Most Wanted, musicals, nature, Noah, opinion, Percy Jones, Peter Stone, Preston Sturges, Ray Liotta, Reflections in a Golden Eye, reviews, Ricky Gervais, Rob Corddry, Robert Redford, rock 'n' Roll, Rosamund Pike, Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek, Saoirse Ronan, Sea of Monsters, Sean Combs, She, Sidney Lumet, Sophia Loren, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Boyd, Still Mine, Sylvia Scarlett, Tennessee Williams, Terence Stamp, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Fugitive Kind, The Great McGinty, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Saphead, The Skin Game, The Westerner, Tim Robbins, Tina Fey, Toby Jones, Tom Hiddleston, Tony Bennett, Trevor Howard, Under the Sea, Usher, Wagon Master, Walter Brennan, Walter Matthau, Werner Herzog, William Wyler, Woodstock, Zach Galifianakis | 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: Walter Brennan

FLIX PIX (203): “Drama on THE BARBARY COAST”

FLIX PIX (117): “William Wyler’s Classic Oater: THE WESTERNER”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (40): The Films of APRIL 2015

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

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