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1 day ago · A summation of Deakins’s career smuggled into an unsuspecting director’s movie, the scene showcases the cinematographer’s beloved bleach-bypass treatment from Nineteen Eighty-Four, adding extra texture to midnight blacks. Smoke and chiaroscuro swirl as the train’s stark headlight penetrates the tall trees; sparks fly from brake plates.
1 day ago · Port of Seven Seas is a 1938 drama film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Frank Morgan and Maureen O'Sullivan. The movie was written by Preston Sturges based on the plays of Marcel Pagnol and the films based on them, and was directed by James Whale. The cinematography is by Karl Freund, who filmed Fritz Lang's Metropolis and I Love Lucy.
4 days ago · While Frank was interested in incorporating recurring elements common within the Westerns of John Ford and Preston Sturges, Godless was based on extensive research conducted on the development of ...
- Liam Gaughan
- Senior Writer
4 days ago · PG-13. Comedy. Drama. In the Deep South during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. Release Date. December 22, 2000. Director. Joel ...
2 days ago · Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross when they are unwittingly made the subjects of ...
- June 8, 1983
- Aaron Russo
3 days ago · Preston Sturges was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Oliver Stone achieved the same distinction in 1986, for Platoon and Salvador .
1 day ago · It comes right before Chaplin’s cameo, where he says, of the stormy seas, “Just a little sloppy, nothing serious,” which they should have used as the movie’s slogan. Comparing the cameo with the matching one in A WOMAN OF PARIS, we can note that they both snap the film into sharper focus, but also make us want to abandon the main ...
