Columns By Ray PridePride@moviecitynews.com
Pride’s Friday 5 (July 6, 2012)
Where’s “Margaret”? “The Battle Of Algiers” is re-fought in Los Angeles and New York this week; Yang Chung’s “China Heavyweight” opens in New York City; The Overlook Hotel is constantly under construction; and Godard’s “Contempt” shows via Film Independent at LACMA.
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Carol Channing — Larger Than Life
I never saw Carol Channing perform live, but the new documentary Carol Channing: Larger Than Life convinced me I missed something very, very special — a great talent and a great lady and a great good time.
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: American Dream, Joe + Belle, Barbarella, Chesty Morgan, Kirk Douglas … More
If there’s anything that brings out the high-school sophomore in adult men, it’s a bust that measures 73 FF. That vital statistic, alone, made Chesty Morgan (a.k.a., Lillian Wilczkowsky) a name recognized in frat, fire and grind houses throughout North America from 1972 to 1991. And, yes, her breasts were – and continue to be, at 75 – 100 percent real.
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: American Reunion
AMERICAN REUNION (Two and a Half Stars) U. S.: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2012 (Universal) American Reunion is indubitably the best of all the American Pie series sequels. Don’t think I don‘t know how much that last judgment is a case of damning with faint praise, or praising with faint damns, or whatever. But what…
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Andy Griffith (1926-2012)
Andy Griffith, who died at 86 on Tuesday, would have been celebrating his last Fourth of July today. I’m sad. But that makes me even sadder — the fact that he just missed it — because there are some people you always want to be around somewhere, somehow, and Andy Griffith was one of them: a real American guy on a real American holiday like the Fourth of July, with flags and barbecues and patriotic speeches and families gathered together in the sweltering heat — or together in the cool night air to watch the fireworks go pop-pop-pop-pop-Yaaaayyy!!!
Read the full article »The Gronvall Files: Actress Elizabeth Banks on People Like Us
Looking at the roster of titles this year that star Elizabeth Banks, one of Hollywood’s hardest working actresses, it’s a mystery where she ever finds time to sleep.
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Magic Mike
The Kid’s star rises. Things get darker. There’s a lot of sex and nudity, including an orgy with a pig wandering around. (You suspect something like this once happened somewhere.)
Read the full article »The Gronvall Files: Lorene Scafaria on Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
“know what I would be like. I would go for love, I would go for a relationship, and I’d look for friends. Death is inevitable, and it is the great equalizer, so the idea that [when that moment comes] you could just be looking into the eyes of the person you love, that is a happy ending to me.”
Read the full article »Wilmington on Movies: Grand Illusion
Few films about war and the men who fight them have the resonance, beauty and power of Jean Renoir’s 1937 Grand Illusion — which Renoir based on his own experiences as a fighter pilot and a Prisoner of War in World War I.
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