Thursday, March 30, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: just a bit overdue...(many more new links, enough for this week)

5 April 2017 will be the 100th anniversary if the birth of Robert Bloch; we hope to see remembrance around the web, and provide access to as much as we can!


















The (once!) weekly assembly of links to blogposts, reviews, essays, podcasts and other items of interest about audio/visual work, usually first-rate and deserving of one's attention but sometimes less so and sometimes deserving of obscurity, up to and including opera, stage drama, conventions, museum exhibits, videogames (and boardgames), and more. Many thanks to those who have continued to post, when they were inspired to one degree or another by the weekly roundelay...

A. J. Wright: Alabama Jones

Alice Chang: Horizon Zero Dawn

Alison Nastasi: 10 British New Wave films

Andrew Porter: 1976 MidAmericon Q&A: Mark Hamill and Gary Kurtz on Star Wars


Anne Billson: Eva Green; Gwyneth Paltrow; everyman action heroes

Arik Devens: underrated 1987 films

Bhob Stewart: The Voices of Marvel; Popeye from a number of angles; Candid Camera; Daniel Clowes on Wilson; and more

The Big Broadcast archive

Bill Crider: Pretty Maids All in a Row [trailer]; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film) [trailer]; Man in the Shadow; Horror Express [trailer]; Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze [trailer]; At War with the Army [trailer]; Swing Vote [trailer]; 20 Million Miles to Earth [trailer]; Song of Old Wyoming [badly colorized, for some reason, print]; Murder, My Sweet [trailer]; Jane Got a Gun [trailer]; Blindman [trailer]; And Then There Were None (1945 film) [trailer]; Scared Stiff [trailer]; Cheyenne Roundup [trailer]; The Spanish Main [clip]; Night Moves [trailer]; Scaramouche (1952 film) [trailer]; 100 Rifles [trailer]; The Terror of the Tongs [trailer]; Law of the Pampas


Brian Arnold: Herman & Katnip: "Mice Meeting You" [current link to animation]; Underdog: "Simon Says No Thanksgiving"; The Thanksgiving Promise

Brian Lindenmuth: Slow West

B. V. Lawson: Media Murder

Classic Movie Salon

Colin McGulgan: Bullet for a Badman

Comedy Film Nerds: Laura House; Nate Gowtham

Cult TV: Lily Savage parodies; The Laughing Prisoner

Cynthia Fuchs: I Called Him Morgan; Personal Shopper

Dan Stumpf: A Killer Walks; Murder at the Vanities

David Cramner: Films for Pi Day; Doctor Who; The Proposition (2005 film)

David Vineyard: Enter Arsene LupinThe Man Behind the Mask

Elgin Bleecker: Seven Keys; A United Kingdom; The Rising of the Moon; I See a Dark Stranger; Town on Trial

Elizabeth Foxwell: Postmark for Danger; In Their Own Words; "Leaves of an Hour"; The Argyle Secrets; Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (BBC Radio 4 Extra); The Star and the Story: "The Blue Landscape"

Ellen Girardeau Kempler: Dogs Haunting Edith Wharton's Home

Eric Hillis: The Eyes of My Mother

The Faculty of Horror: I Spit on Your Grave (1978); Elle (2016)

Gary Deane: The Lawbreakers

George Kelley: City Lights; Justice League Dark; Kind Hearts and Coronets; 3rd Rock from the Sun

"Gilligan Newton-John": Escape from Galaxy 3; Space Princesses [NSFW]

How Did This Get Made?: Body Parts (with Gillian Jacobs and Claudia O'Doherty)

Iba Dawson: Umberto D;  Carnival of Souls

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Thank You All Very Much; Roaring City; The Perfect Clown Behind the Door (1919 film); Won Ton Ton, the Dog That Saved Hollywood; The Delinquents; Treasure of Monte Cristo; The Eagle; Black Tuesday; Tales of Wells Fargo; Here Come the Nelsons; Col. Humphrey Flack (DuMont Network); Highway 13; Open All Night (1924 film); Panther Girl of the Kongo

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents:/The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "Banquo's Chair"; 'The Cadaver"; "Run for Doom"; "The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater"; "I Killed the Count"

Jackie Kashian: John Scalzi on digital photography; Henry Phillips on amateur instructional video;  Alycia Cooper on Trump's tweets;  Chris Mancini on board games

Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show  

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Another Man's Poison; My Wild Irish Rose; the Mt. Tom Playhouse (Holyoke, MA); Robert Osborne;  Happy Land 10 years

Jake Hinkson: The Crooked Web; the pernicious Oscars; Friendly Persuasion

James Clark: The Only Lovers Left Alive

James Reasoner: Skiptrace Below the Border; The War Wagon; Lucy; Rio Concho; The Shallows; True Memoirs of an International Assassin

Janet Varney: The JV Club

J. D. Lafrance: Le Mans

Jedidiah Ayres: Coastlines; favorite crime drama films of 2016

Jerry House: Burn 'Em Up BarnesThe Flying Serpent; Purple Death from Outer Space; Hawk Durango/Hawk Larabee; Suspense: "Murder at the Mardi Gras" (CBS -TV)


Jess Nevins: Made a discovery today of a science fiction short by Jean Renoir from 1926, in which an African explorer (played by an African-American) visits a Europe descended into savagery by an apocalyptic war. The film isn't listed in any of the major reference works on science fiction.


John Grant: Moontide; Phantom of ChinatownThe Last Job; Dick Barton Strikes BackDick Barton at Bay; Dick Barton, Special Agent; Robert Osborne; La Bande à Bonnot; John recommends Movies from the Silent Era.

John Scoleri: Dark Shadows Before I Die: the episodes reviewed

John Varley: Spy in the Wild; The Hunt for the WilderpeopleThe Ruling Class

Jonathan Lewis: The Last Train from Madrid; The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight;  The Monster of Piedras Blancas

Juri Nummelin: "Shellarama"; Suburbia; The French ConnectionToo Late; LBJ: The Early Years; Knife in the Water

Karen Hannsberry: The Cheat; Rain (1932 film); Night Nurse42nd Street (1933 film); 2016 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival

Kate Laity: Hunted; Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn!)

Kelly Robinson: The Immortal Alamo

Ken Levine: Hollywood & Levine 12: Pissing Off NBC, Thrown Off The Dating Game; television production schedules

Kim Newman: Atomica

Kliph Nesteroff: Camp Runamuck; The Joey Bishop Show (1968 episode)

Kristina Dijan: O Canada! blogathon; March Film Diary; Bureau of Missing Persons; The Merry Widow; The Canadians

Laura G: BackLash; Our Dancing Daughters; Behind Green Lights; Escape in the Fog; September Storm; Address Unknown; Lola Albright; 19th Annual Noir City Film Festival

Lesley Gaspar: Children of Divorce (1927 film)

Lindsay D.: Muriel Box; The Bride Wore RedThis is My Affair

Louis Fowler: Salsa

Lucy Brown: The Dark Mirror

Maltin on Movies: Melanie Lynskey; Best Classic Films

Martin Edwards: Final Appointment; Death Goes to School; Love from a Stranger; No Trace (aka Murder by the Book); Life in Danger; Emirates Literature Festival; Guilty? (aka By Whose Hand?)

Marty McKee: Storm Trooper; Girl on the Run; The Klansman; Pink Cadillac  

Michael Shonk: Bright StarThe Adventures of  Lariat Sam; Jane

Mildred Perkins: Predator II: A Bill Paxton Tribute; The Wailing

Mitchell Hadley: Minneapolis TV listings, 24 March 1971; TV Guide, 20 March 1971; Chuck Barris

Movie Sign with the Mads: This is Spinal Tap; Super; Rules Don't Apply; The Warriors 

Noel Vera: Birth of a Nation (2016 film); Tokyo Drifter

Patricia Nolan-Hall: Merrily We Go to Hell; Wagon Train: "Little Girl Lost"; Charlie Chan in Paris; City in Darkness

Patti Abbott: The Player; Midsomer Murders: "Written in Blood"; ThirtySomething: "Couples"; Gilmore GirlsThe Ice Storm; Hitchcock/Truffaut; Village of the Damned; Three Women; Holiday Affair; The Verdict; Shampoo

Paul D. Brazill: A Film for Friday: Husbands, et seq.

Pop My Culture: Kristen Vangsness; series finale: Live at San Francisco SketchFest

Prashant Trikannad: The Intern; Daredevil (Netflix telelvision)

The Projection Booth: Doctor Detroit

Raquel Stecher: Bells are Ringing; Robert Osborne; Mary Astor

Rick: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Green for Danger; Vincent Price

Rod Lott: Night Trap; Cannonball!; Frankenstein's Hungry Dead

"Rupert Pupkin": Bunny Lake is Missing; Fat City

Ruth Kerr: Leni Riefenstahl; Phone Call from a Stranger; Destination Tokyo

Salome Wilde: Walk Softly, Stranger; Feline Noir; Children in Film Noir

Sam Juliano: The Magic Flute (Bergman's film)

Sergio Angelini: Smile, Jenny, You're Dead; The Columbo Podcast; Justified; Johnny Staccato; No Way Out (1987 film); Jonathan Creek

Stacia Kissick Jones: Finian's Rainbow; Phaedra (1962 film); A Game of Death

Stacie Ponder: Sadako vs. Hayako

Stephen Bowie : Don M. Mankiewicz

Stephen Gallagher: The Future Boys

Steve Lewis: The Time Tunnel (2006 tv pilot); Murder by Death;  Three Days of the Condor;  2017 Vintage Paperback Collectors Show; The Sombrero Kid

Television Obscurities: Coronet Blue; Men into Space: "Is There Another Civilization?"

Theresa Brown: The Ox-Bow Incident; Robert Osborne

Todd Mason: Popcorn and Sexual Politics: Movie Reviews by Kathi Maio; jazz documentaries featuring Bob Brookmeyer

TV Guidance Counselor: Ileana Douglas

Tynan: La Ronde; The Bicycle Thief Trafic (1971 film)

Vienna: Cover Up (1949 film); Johnny Reno; Private Hell 36

Yvette Banek: The Three Musketeers (1948 film)

10 comments:

jurinummelin said...

I have one at Pulpetti.

Todd Mason said...

Thanks, Juri...I'll have more than one of yours to catch up with...

As too often, other tasks have delayed today's work.

Elgin Bleecker said...

Todd – Thanks for doing the list and for including my posts.

Todd Mason said...

Not at all, Elgin! Thanks for writing them.

Jack Seabrook said...

Thanks for the links!

Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...

Holy mackerel!

Todd Mason said...

And I'n not done yet...*tugs forelock*.

Todd Mason said...

Thank you, Jack. Good to know the answer as to where the Robert Arthur story came from.

Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...

You missed a few of mine, but given the gargantuan post, I forgive you :) Thanks for doing this for us chum!

Todd Mason said...

Oh, I intend to double back in future weeks. There are few who have been "exhausted' after such an interregnum. Thank you.