Category Archives: Lost in the Temple: Movies

A YEAR IN THE SILVER: MY TOP TEN MOVIE MOMENTS

The end of every year sends movie critics scrambling to play the list game. You know, where we comb through that year’s titles for the privilege of allowing a select few a spot on on our “Top Ten” list. Those … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on January 2, 2012

Posted in Lost in the Temple: Movies | Tagged Broadway Melody of 1940, Heights Theater, Night of the Hunter, On the Bowery, Scarecrow, The Adventures of Tintin, The Bad News Bears, The Bad News Bears in Breaking TrainingSkid Row, The Ballad of Mott the Hoople, The Black Pirate, The Defenders, Trylon microcinema | Comments Off

NOTHING BUT A SHAME

Shame, 2011. Directed by Steve McQueen, written by McQueen and Abi Morgan. Starring Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, and Nicole Beharie. Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) walks around his stylish, nearly empty, blindingly-white Manhattan apartment with no clothes on. … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on December 16, 2011

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THEY WERE BORN TO DANCE!

Broadway Melody of 1940, directed by Norman Taurog, written (if you can call it that) by Leon Gordon and George Oppenheimer, with help from nine other writers (including Preston Sturges). Starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, weird George Murphy, and the … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on November 30, 2011

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WORLD WITH AN END, AMEN

Melancholia, 2011. Directed and written by Lars von Trier. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, Keifer Sutherland, and Udo Keir as a wedding planner from Hell. Aren’t they all? Lars von Trier’s new film, Melancholia, concerns … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on November 23, 2011

Posted in Lost in the Temple: Movies | Tagged lars von trier, melancholia | 2 Comments

THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAY: ROBERT RYAN

There he is, in Act of Violence, Joe Parkson, limping, gat in hand, desperate and obsessed with blowing away clean-living Frank Enley, maybe even taking Enley’s wife out in the process. You can’t get that one out of your head, … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on November 10, 2011

Posted in Lost in the Temple: Movies | Tagged Act of Violence, Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Ryan, This Week's Birthday | Comments Off

ONLY THE TRUTH IS FUNNY*

Hail the Conquering Hero, 1944. Directed and written by Preston Sturges. Starring Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, Ella Raines, Franklin Pangborn, Georgia Caine, Raymond Walburn, and the “Tacoma Assassin”, boxer Freddie Steele, playing the mother-obsessed Marine… Was there ever a comedy … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on October 25, 2011

Posted in Lost in the Temple: Movies | Tagged Eddie Bracken, Hail the Conquering Hero, Preston Sturges | 1 Comment

DOWN AND OUT (IN NEW YORK AND MINNEAPOLIS)

In a summer of endless clashes between spandex covered men and alien invaders, of comedies involving endless sex jokes and great buckets of shit, of children’s films in which the whiny echoes of spoiled brats reverberate off the walls of … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on August 1, 2011

Posted in Lost in the Temple: Movies | Tagged On the Bowery, Skid Row, Trylon | Comments Off

REMEMBERING THE MOVIEGOER

For the Twin Cities film community, Terry Blue was a fixture at theaters around town. You couldn’t miss him: red haired, moving at clip that suggested he had important places to go (he would probably say that your theater was … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on February 17, 2011

Posted in A Raging Gallimaufry: Everything Else, Conversations Real & Imagined, Lost in the Temple: Movies | Tagged Terry Blue, Trylon | Comments Off

CONVERSATIONS REAL & IMAGINED: THE WRECK OF ALVIN FITZSIMMONS

Marty, 1953 (an episode of the Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse). Directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky. Starring Rod Steiger, Joe Mantell, Nancy Marchand, and Esther Minciotti From the files of “street” critic Guy Fresno. Did I ever tell you … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on November 17, 2010

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WHO’S CRAZY HERE?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975. Directed by Milos Forman, written by Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben. Starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Scatman Crothers, Vincent Schiavelli, Dean R. Brooks, Sydney Lassick, … Continue reading →

by Peter Schilling Jr. Posted on August 31, 2010

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