Amazing to think about all the changes she saw first hand in Hollywood since her youth. Side note, she was married to director Richard L. Bare who died in 2015 at the age of 101. Bare directed 7 Twilight Zone episodes including To Serve Man
Last year we lost Marsha Hunt at 104 (1917-2022) before that Norman Lloyd at 106 (1919-2021) & Olivia de Havilland at 104 (1916-2020)
Norman Lear is 101, Glynis Johns just turned 100 last Thursday, Mel Brooks is 97.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_centenarians_(actors,_filmmakers_and_entertainers)
Glad to see PTA doing on-screen commentary at TCM. I love it when directors are interviewed there.
I’ve seen 3 of the 5. The 2 I haven’t seen are the British ones, Night Ambush and Victim. Will set my calendar for all.
All this meshugaas has me pining for TCM's halcyon days of Robert Osborne.
French Connection has one of the greatest car chase scenes in film history. Popeye Doyle was a great bad ass cop with serious anger issues.
Starring Steve Brodie, Audrey Long and pre-good-guy Raymond Burr.
Directed by Anthony Mann
Watch Burr chillingly slice a piece of turkey while he roughs up a pair of elderly country folk.
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 American film noir directed by Orson Welles (uncredited) and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King.
Although it initially received mixed reviews, it has grown in stature over the years, and many critics have praised its set designs and camerawork.
"...makes Eraserhead seem like 'Ernest Saves Christmas'."
--Critic's Choice, Time Magazine
If you have cable or satellite TV you can catch Eddie Muller's Noir Alley presentation of the 1949 film Impact tonight at midnight Eastern and again at 10am Sunday.
Eddie provides an Intro/Outro to each of these weekly films. Sometimes Eddie is much more entertaining than the films themselves although the film tonight is a pretty good one.
Worth it just to see location shots of 1949 San Francisco & Sausalito.
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Here are a few links for discovering the best films of the genre (if you're inclined to call it that) Note: some of these also include Neo-Noir
https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/film-noir/the-best-noirs-of-all-time
https://mubi.com/lists/bfi-screen-guides-100-film-noirs
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-100-best-film-noirs-of-all-time/
https://filmnoir.art.blog/essential-films-noir/
