By Alan Hurst Turner Classic Movies was recently showing Key Largo (1948) and I sat down and started watching. Again. It’s one of my favorite stage to screen adaptations of the era – a great cast, suspenseful direction by John Huston, steamy locale, a strong script based on Maxwell Anderson’s play and Johnny Rocco is one…
By Alan Hurst From a first viewing in the late 70s and then multiple viewings since, no other film of the horror/suspense genre has ever had the impact on me that Rosemary’s Baby (1968) has. It was a big hit when it came out in 1968 and it sill holds up today. It’s the perfect…
By Alan Hurst The Best Actress Oscar race for the films of 1962 was a year of grand dame comebacks, high profile stage adaptations with very little room for new faces. The final five making the list in a pretty competitive year were: Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker (1962) Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to…
A few years ago Robert Redford gave a great, near silent performance in All is Lost (2013) as a man left near dead in the middle of the ocean after a violent storm destroys his vessel. The New York Film Critics awarded their actor Best Actor for his superb physical performance in what was one…