First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings and first Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor on TCM (photo: Emil Jannings in 'The Last Command') First Best Actor Academy Award winner Emil Jannings in The Last Command, first Best Actress Academy Award winner Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, and sisters Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are a few of the silent era performers featured this evening on Turner Classic Movies, as TCM continues with its Silent Monday presentations. Starting at 5 p.m. Pt / 8 p.m. Et on November 17, 2014, get ready to check out several of the biggest movie stars of the 1920s. Following the Jean Negulesco-directed 1943 musical short Hit Parade of the Gay Nineties -- believe me, even the most rabid anti-gay bigot will be able to enjoy this one -- TCM will be showing Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928) one of the two movies that earned...
- 11/18/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: David Nordstrom
Starring: David Nordstrom, Carl McLaughlin, Lee Lynch and Becca Barr
For his feature-film debut, writer-director-star David Nordstrom returned to his hometown of Eau Claire, Wis., shooting in local bars among local barflies. It’s set in wintertime, and there’s nothing particularly innovative or remarkable about the camerawork by James Laxton, so the picture takes on a dreary cast. But Nordstrom adeptly paces his straightforward story with just enough mystery to keep viewers interested and ambiguity to imbue it with melancholic gravitas.
On Thanksgiving morning, instead of spending the day at home with his pregnant wife, Bob (Nordstrom) meets up with his younger brother Pete (Carl McLaughlin), whom he hasn’t seen in years, at a nearby dive bar. Pete’s just out of basic training with the Navy, on leave for the day before...
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: David Nordstrom
Starring: David Nordstrom, Carl McLaughlin, Lee Lynch and Becca Barr
For his feature-film debut, writer-director-star David Nordstrom returned to his hometown of Eau Claire, Wis., shooting in local bars among local barflies. It’s set in wintertime, and there’s nothing particularly innovative or remarkable about the camerawork by James Laxton, so the picture takes on a dreary cast. But Nordstrom adeptly paces his straightforward story with just enough mystery to keep viewers interested and ambiguity to imbue it with melancholic gravitas.
On Thanksgiving morning, instead of spending the day at home with his pregnant wife, Bob (Nordstrom) meets up with his younger brother Pete (Carl McLaughlin), whom he hasn’t seen in years, at a nearby dive bar. Pete’s just out of basic training with the Navy, on leave for the day before...
- 6/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: David Nordstrom
Starring: David Nordstrom, Carl McLaughlin, Lee Lynch and Becca Barr
For his feature-film debut, writer-director-star David Nordstrom returned to his hometown of Eau Claire, Wis., shooting in local bars among local barflies. It’s set in wintertime, and there’s nothing particularly innovative or remarkable about the camerawork by James Laxton, so the picture takes on a dreary cast. But Nordstrom adeptly paces his straightforward story with just enough mystery to keep viewers interested and ambiguity to imbue it with melancholic gravitas.
On Thanksgiving morning, instead of spending the day at home with his pregnant wife, Bob (Nordstrom) meets up with his younger brother Pete (Carl McLaughlin), whom he hasn’t seen in years, at a nearby dive bar. Pete’s just out of basic training with the Navy, on leave for the day before...
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: David Nordstrom
Starring: David Nordstrom, Carl McLaughlin, Lee Lynch and Becca Barr
For his feature-film debut, writer-director-star David Nordstrom returned to his hometown of Eau Claire, Wis., shooting in local bars among local barflies. It’s set in wintertime, and there’s nothing particularly innovative or remarkable about the camerawork by James Laxton, so the picture takes on a dreary cast. But Nordstrom adeptly paces his straightforward story with just enough mystery to keep viewers interested and ambiguity to imbue it with melancholic gravitas.
On Thanksgiving morning, instead of spending the day at home with his pregnant wife, Bob (Nordstrom) meets up with his younger brother Pete (Carl McLaughlin), whom he hasn’t seen in years, at a nearby dive bar. Pete’s just out of basic training with the Navy, on leave for the day before...
- 6/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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