In Withnail and I, two English chums go “on holiday by mistake” and seek refuge from their horrid lives in a bottle of whatever is nearby. The movie is loaded with writing that is memorized and used by the film’s fans in their daily lives as often as possible. How can anyone resist lines like,…
While casting about for a French wine and movie pairing, it occurred to me how much French stuff we find all around us. That’s no surprise if you are in France, of course. You expect it there. But in the United States we sure have a lot of French stuff on hand. French wine, of…
Sherilyn Connelly, writer for the Village Voice and SF Weekly, alerted us to her interview with fashion designer Ayumi Seto in which Ayumi divulges one of her greatest inspirations, Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) of Rock ‘N’ Roll High School. Sheryilyn’s piece can be found in the latest issue of Topless Robot along with several photos…
Alamo CEO/Founder Tim League and other members of the American Genre Film Archive (including Nicholas Winding Refn and Paul Thomas Anderson) have begun an essential and exciting crowdfunding project on Indiegogo that, in the words of their press release, “(is) dedicated to supporting the mission to complete high resolution digital transfers of movies for which…
The new issue of Interview Magazine features a great interview with the legendary filmmaker, Roger Corman, conducted by one of the most accomplished graduates of the “Corman School”, the brilliant Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense). Demme runs Roger through a quick tour of his decades-long career (not forgetting to include a…
Trailers From Hell welcomes all movies great and small but sometimes a particular trailer may not be up to the visual quality of the rest of our catalog or is simply too oddball to present in our usual format. Nevertheless, there’s such a wealth of exciting, strange and unusual films out there, we’d be remiss…
Three significant early Paramount comedies make an appearance in our Great Global Search, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business starring the Marx Brothers and It’s A Gift with W.C. Fields. Groucho and company are nothing less than essential but in the grand scheme of things, Fields’ dysfunctional family portrait stands apart from its contemporaries as one of the greatest comedies of…
Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From September 27, 2007, it’s Allan Arkush on Bucket of Blood. “Life is an obscure hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.” The wit and wisdom of writer Charles B. Griffith, Roger Corman’s hipper-than-thou alter-ego, is in even fuller flower here than in his classic…
Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments! Soft‑core sex antics, pseudo‑documentary style, with enough nudity to get by in appropriate markets. Rating: Self-imposed X. Surmising that “we all have a need…
1955’s Artists and Models, directed by Frank Tashlin, neatly satirizes the cold-war paranoia of the fifties (and the McCarthy hearings in particular) by focusing on a similar witch hunt, the war against comic books. Tashlin’s film, starring Dean Martin as a failed “fine” artist reduced to drawing for comic books and Jerry Lewis as the fella who reads…
Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From September 21, 2007, it’s Sam Hamm on 20 Million Miles to Earth. The dino-like Ymir is one of Ray Harryhausen’s most personable stop-motion creations and the last to benefit from his brilliant black-and-white lighting. Currently available in a lamentably colorized video version which shows Ray’s work…
Entertainment Weekly compiled a list of the 10 Most Criminally Underrated Movies, five of which can be found on TFH. We’re confident this proves we are only half criminal. Fat City Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Rolling Thunder Near Dark Gremlins 2 Read the full list.