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Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2018
‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Comedy, Film, Humor, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Opera, Ernst Lubitsch, FilmStruck, Lubitsch touch, The Oyster Princess, Ossi Owalda, Harry Liedtke, Victor Janson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sumurun, Pola Negri, Hollywood, Max Reinhardt, Dave Kehr, The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar, operetta, Lorenz Hart, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, MGM, Paramount, Cedric Gibbons, The Lady Dances, The Shop Around the Corner, Budapest, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, Heaven Can Wait, Technicolor, Don Ameche, Laird Cregar, Samson Raphaelson, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Eugene Pallette, Spring Byington

Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2018
Lana Turner shines as FilmStruck's Star of the Week

FilmStruck's "star of the week" Lana Turner shines in these five films.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Books, Crime, Film, History, On Video, Small Screen, Lana Turner, melodrama, Hollywood, film noir, FilmStruck, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sigmund Freud, MGM, Robert Louis Stevenson, Spencer Tracy, Victor Fleming, Ingrid Bergman, Donald Crisp, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Dave Kehr, The Postman Always Rings Twice, John Garfield, James M. Cain, Tay Garnett, Green Dolphin Street, Donna Reed, Academy Award, Victor Saville, Samson Raphelson, Elizabeth Goudge, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, The Three Musketeers, Gene Kelly, d'Artagnan, Lady DeWinter, George Sidney, Gig Young, June Allyson, Vincent Price, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, The Bad and the Beautiful, Vincente Minnelli Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon, Kirk Douglas, Val Lewton, Dick Powell, Charles Schnee, Walter Pidgeon, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2018
The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck's director of the week

Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Moviegoing, On Video, Small Screen, The Internet, William A. Wellman, Oscar, Wings, James Cagney, gangster, The Public Enemy, FilmStruck, Pre-Code, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Dave KehrNight Nurse, Warners, Manny Farber, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Safe in Hell, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Reece Pendleton, Heroes for Sale, Richard Barthelmess, Ben Sachs, Wild Boys of the Road, Frankie Darro

Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2018
Jean-Pierre Melville's brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck

FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, Jean-Pierre Melville, FilmStruck, film noir, French New Wave, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, . The Silence of the Sea, Vercors, Howard Vernon, Nicole Stephane, Jean-Marie Robain, Robert Bresson, Orson Welles, Dave Kehr, Bob le Flambeur, Pigalle, The Asphalt Jungle, Two Men in Manhattan, Pierre Grasset, Nicolas Hayer, J.R. Jones, Le Samourai, Alain Delon, John Woo, Le Deuxieme Souffle, Henri Decae, The Book of Bushido, Joan McLeod, The Ronin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Le Cercle Rouge, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, André Bourvil, François Périer, Bill Stamets

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2018
FilmStruck spotlights the sophisticated cinema of George Cukor

George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the "director of the week" treatment form FilmStruck.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Comedy, Crime, Dance, Film, On Video, Small Screen, Television, George Cukor, Hollywood, auteur, FilmStruck, The Women, The Philadelphia Story, A Star Is Born, What Price Hollywood?, Lowell Sherman, Constance Bennett, Academy Award, Katharine Hepburn, Morning Glory, Dave Kehr, Camille, Alexandre Dumas, Greta Garbo, Clarence Brown, MGM, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, William Daniels, Gaslight, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury, Joseph Cotton, Dame May Whitty, Adam's Rib, Spencer Tracy, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, Les Girls, Andrew Sarris, John Patrick, Vera Caspary, Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor, Taina Elg, Gene Kelly, Bhowani Junction, Cole Porter, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2018
James Cagney is more than just a tough-guy as FilmStruck's Star of the Week

James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck's "Star of the Week" selections.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Dance, Film, On Video, Small Screen, gangster, James Cagney, FilmStruck, The Public Enemy, White Heat, Footlight Parade, Warner Brothers, musical, Busby Berkeley, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Don Druker, The Fighting 69th, World War I, Joyce Kilmer, Francis P. Duffy, "Wild Bill" Donovan, William Keighley, Pat O'Brien, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Dennis Morgan, J.R. Jones, The Strawberry Blonde, Raoul Walsh, Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Jack Carson, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, George M. Cohan, Broadway, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie, Rosemary DeCamp, Frances Langford, James Wong Howe, Dave Kehr, Mister Roberts, John Ford, Joshua Logan, Leyland Hayward, Mervyn LeRoy, Oscar, Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2018
Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Arts, Film, History, LGBTQ+, On Video, Television, Derek Jarman, FilmStruck, Pride Month, Caravaggio, Jean-Luc Godard, Passion, homoerotic, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough, Pat Graham, The Last of England, Margaret Thatcher, Spencer Leigh, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Edward II, Christopher Marlowe, Ronald Reagan, Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books, Stephen McBride, Ken Butler, Steve Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Jerome Flynn, Elektra Quartet, Annie Lennox, Eurythmics, Cole Porter, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Cornell, Karl Johnson, Blue, AIDS, Simon Fisher Turner

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2018
John Huston, FilmStruck's Director of the Week, had a way with actors

FilmStruck "Director of the Week" John Huston always got great performances, from Humphrey Bogart in the 1940s to his daughter Anjelica Huston in the '80s,
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Books, Crime, Film, Moviegoing, On Video, Television, John Huston, Walter Huston, Anjelica Huston, FilmStruck, Key Largo, Maxwell Anderson, To Have and Have Not, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Florida, Edward G. Robinson, Thomas Gomez, Marc Lawrence, Claire Trevor, Oscar, Richard Brooks, Karl Freund, Dave Kehr, The Asphalt Jungle, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Badlanders, Cairo, Cool Breeze, Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Marilyn Monroe, The Night of the Iguana, Richard Burton, Mexico, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon, Tennessee Williams, Kinsey Report, Grayson Hall, Cyril Delevanti, Gabriel Figueroa, The Man Who Would Be King, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Afghanistan, Rudyard Kipling, Oswald Morris, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Wise Blood, The Dead, Flannery O'Connor, Brad Dourif, No Exit, Sartre, Freud, Harry Dean Stanton, Amy Wright, Daniel Shor, Ned Beatty, Michael Fitzgerald, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2018
David Lean, FilmStruck’s Director of the Week, has more to offer than just Lawrence of Arabia

FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, On Video, Small Screen, The Internet, David Lean, FilmStruck, Charles Dickens, Madeleine, Madeleine Smith, Ann Todd, J.R. Jones, The Sound Barrier, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Nigel Patrick, Prometheus, Terence Rattigan, Hobson's Choice, Charles Laughton, Captain Bligh, Brenda de Banzie, John Mills, Dave Kehr, Summertime, Katharine Hepburn, Venice, Rossano Brazzi, The Bridge on the River Kwai, World War II, POWs, Burma, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2018
FilmStruck’s ‘Early Hitchcock’ shows the master of suspense mastering suspense

The streaming-video channel FilmStruck collects early films by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, The Internet, FilmStruck, Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger, Frenzy, Dave Kehr, Rich and Strange, Marnie, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Joan Barry, Henry Kendall, Number 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sabotage, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Homolka, Sylvia Sidney, John Loder, Young and Innocent, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Derrick de Marney, Nova Pilbeam, The Birds, Basil Radford

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2018
Undercover cops infiltrate FilmStruck this week

FilmStruck showcases undercover cop films this week, with movies by Anthony Mann and Quentin Tarantino.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, FilmStruck, crime films, thrillers, undercover cops, Anthony Mann, T-Men, Louis de Rochemont, Treasury Department, Dennis O'Keefe, June Lockhart, Charles McGraw, Alfred Ryder, John Alton, Dave Kehr, Border Incident, The Narrow Margin, film noir, Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Richard Fleischer, Earl Fenton, George E. Diskant, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, The Killing, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, CinemaScope, Infernal Affairs, Hong Kong, Christopher Doyle, Tony Leung, In the Mood for Love, Andy Lau, Days of Being Wild, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Wai-Keung Lau, Alan Mak, J.R. Jones

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2018
Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, Crime, mystery, thriller, film, boats, FilmStruck, Macao, Josef von Sternerg, Paramount, RKO, Howard Hughes, Nicholas Ray, Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Dave Kehr, L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lea Massari, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Roberto Rossellini, La Notte, Eclipse, L’Eclisse, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Purple Noon, Alain Delon, Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Rene Clement, Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Henri Decae, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet, Playtime, Bill Kearns, Knife in the Water, Jerzy Skolimowski, Moonlighting, Roman Polanski, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Don Druker, Night Moves, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Watergate, Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Florida Keys, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Alan Sharp, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, James Woods

Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2018
This week on FilmStruck: Deep in the heart of Texas

FilmStruck finds more than western films deep in the heart of Texas.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, Texas, FilmStruck, Lone Star, Stetsons, Longhorn cattle, John Wayne, Giant, Edna Ferber, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Boris Levin, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Dave Kehr, The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, New Wave, Howard Hawks, Red River, Cahiers du Cinema, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Oscar, Robert Surtees, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Paris Texas, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Robby Müller, Hammett, John Ford, Michelangelo Antonioni, Hunter Carson, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Ry Cooder, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Blood Simple, M. Emmet Walsh, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, James M. Cain, Slacker, Richard Linklater, Austin Texas, Waking Life, The Phantom of Liberty, Playtime

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2018
This Week on FilmStruck: Bette Davis

FilmStruck celebrates the great Bette Davis.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, History, On Video, Film, Hollywood, Bette Davis, Filmstruck, Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Little Foxes, Now, Voyager, Joan Crawford, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Three on a Match, The Public Enemy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, Mervyn LeRoy, Humphrey Bogart, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Edward Arnold, J.R. Jones, Marked Woman, Thomas Dewey, Lucky Luciano, Robert Rossen, Abem Finkel, Lloyd Bacon, Red Hollywood, Jane Bryan, Eduardo Cianneli, Isabel Jewell, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Maxwell Anderson, Queen Elizabeth, Lord Essex, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson, Alan Hale, Michael Curtiz, Dave Kehr, The Man Who Came to Dinner, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Broadway Warner Brothers, Monty Woolley, Alexander Woolcott, Gore Vidal, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Reginald Gardner, Billie Burke, Mary Wickes, William Keighley, Grand Guignol, Robert Aldrich, The Dirty Dozen, Ulzana's Raid, Emperor of the North, Kiss Me Deadly, Don Druker

Blogs, Bleader Feb 16, 2018
This Week on Filmstruck: Jacques Demy

Filmstruck presents the musical films of French master Jacques Demy.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Art House, Dance, Film, Foreign, Music, On Video, Television, Jacques Demy, French New Wave, Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Oscar, Filmstruck, Lola, Raoul Coutard, Anouk Aimee, The Blue Angel, Breathless, Max Ophuls, Michel Legrand, Robert Bresson, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bay of Angels, Jeanne Moreau, Pickpocket, Jean Rabier, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Catherine Deneuve, Dave Kehr, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Une Chambre en Ville, Gene Kelly, Donkey Skin, Peau d'Ane, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig

Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2018
This Week on Filmstruck: Films about Hard Times

Filmstruck presents a series of films dealing with Hard Times.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Television, Small Screen, Filmstruck, Greed, Erich von Stroheim, MGM, Frank Norris, McTeague, Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Death Valley, Citizen Kane, Jean Renoir, Jean Hersholt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Oliver Twist, Alec Guinness, Fagin, David Lean, Charles Dickens, Oliver!, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Artful Dodger, Don Druker, Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, Cannes, Francois Truffaut, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, Pixote, Hector Babenco, Marilia Pera, Jorge Juliano, Dave Kehr, A Time for Drunken Horses, Bahman Ghobadi Camera d'Or, Djomeh, Alissa Simon

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2018
This week on Filmstruck: Anna Magnani

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Television, Filmstruck, Turner Classic Movies, Criterion Collection, L'Amore, Roberto Rossellini, The Human Voice, The Miracle, Anna Magnani, Jean Cocteau, Federico Fellini, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Fugitive Kind, Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams, Meade Roberts, Sidney Lumet, Joanne Woodward, Victor Jory, Maureen Stapleton, The Golden Coach, Paul Campbell, Ricardo Rioli, Duncan Lamont, Jean Renoir, Prosper Merimee Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Jean Debucourt, Mamma Roma, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Aldo Fabrizi, Maria Michi, Don Druker, Open City, Luchino Visconti

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Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."

FilmStruck's "star of the week" Lana Turner shines in these five films.

Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.

FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.

George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the "director of the week" treatment form FilmStruck.

James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck's "Star of the Week" selections.

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.

FilmStruck "Director of the Week" John Huston always got great performances, from Humphrey Bogart in the 1940s to his daughter Anjelica Huston in the '80s,

FilmStruck spotlights director David Lean, whose early Dickens adaptations and later epics shouldn't obscure his more intimate dramas from the 1950s.

The streaming-video channel FilmStruck collects early films by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.

FilmStruck showcases undercover cop films this week, with movies by Anthony Mann and Quentin Tarantino.

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.

FilmStruck finds more than western films deep in the heart of Texas.

FilmStruck celebrates the great Bette Davis.

Filmstruck presents the musical films of French master Jacques Demy.

Filmstruck presents a series of films dealing with Hard Times.

Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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