Cinema is the most visual of the arts. While images power it, as they do with static photograpy, more goes into and can wrong with the 3D world than 1D. In the 1D world, the artist is the god. Throughout is evolution from concept to realization, they remain in total control over the image and…
Category: Hollywood
The ’70s Films of Pam Grier – ‘The Big Doll House’ (1971) & ‘Women in Cages’ (1971)
Pam Grier’s next two films, The Big House/Women in Cages would acquaint her with a favorite of 1970s exploitation films, WIP (Women in Prison). They would serve as the first productions for Roger Corman’s new production company New World Pictures. As well, both films would see Ms. Grier’s roles expanding, as well as her clothing progressively disappearing. Both…
The 70s Films of Pam Grier – ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ (1970)
It is ironic that Pam Grier’s first film appearance would come in a Russ Meyer film. Meyer carved out a film car in the 1950s & 1960s making rather tame by today’s standards “Nudie-Cuties; softcore films from the 1940s, 50s & 60s that focused more on the actresses in various states of undress. This was…
LBJBR’s Actor Chronicles – Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren has had a long and varied acting career. She has played characters that range from Elizabeth II to a young girl living in the outback in Austrailia with her grandmother, who poses nude for a painter, who awakens her sexuality. She is one of the most versatile actresses in cinema history Born Helen…
LBJBR’s Actor’s Guide: William Powell
If you know who William Powell is, dear readers, then you are among the lucky few. A case could be made that Powell is one of the greatest actors of all time. While neither handsome nor an imposing figure, Powell commands the screen like no other, save maybe Spencer Tracy. Powell’s suave charisma, debonair charm,…
LBJBR’s Acting Profile -Steve McQueen
What can one say about Steve McQueen that the phrase “Steve McQueen: King of Cool” doesn’t already cover? Not much. Granted, much like James Dean and Kurt Cobain, McQueen’s legend has passed into mythology and, more than likely, far surpassed the actual, but so what? He’s Steve – freaking – McQueen. Born in Beech Grove…
This Month in Film and Music History – November 29, 1957: Film Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold Passes Away
Once upon a time, a composer of film music stood before an orchestra of live actual human beings who played real instruments. We got to know their names as well. They did more than enhance the scene playing on the screen. They became characters, sometimes more famous than the people they are called onto enhance….
