Episode 271 - Chinatown (1974) 09/28/2018 Hi everyone! Welcome back to Film Buff Fridays! We’re going with a more recent and widely celebrated noir film, which has also had some social problems since its release. For a few other film noir classics, check out “Sunset Boulevard” (Episode #077), “The Stranger” (Episode #215), and “Touch of Evil” (Episode #229), which also had some social issues with casting. And if you have any favorite film noir classics, let me know at onemoviepunch.com. And now... Today’s movie is “Chinatown” (1974),
Hi everyone! Welcome back to Film Buff Fridays! We’re going with a more recent and widely celebrated noir film, which has also had some social problems since its release. For a few other film noir classics, check out “Sunset Boulevard” (Episode #077), “The Stranger” (Episode #215), and “Touch of Evil” (Episode #229), which also had some social issues with casting. And if you have any favorite film noir classics, let me know at onemoviepunch.com. And now... Today’s movie is “Chinatown” (1974),
Episode 229 - Touch of Evil (1958) 08/17/2018 Welcome back to Film Buff Fridays! Yup, it’s another Orson Welles film this week, as I’m gearing up on the forthcoming “The Other Side of the Wind” on Netflix, the restored and completed version of his last film in September. If you dig Orson Welles, check out “The Stranger” (Episode #215) from a couple weeks back, or any of his films, really. If you have a favorite and would like to see it reviewed, let me know at the form at onemoviepunch.com. And now... Today’s movie is “Touch of Evil”
Welcome back to Film Buff Fridays! Yup, it’s another Orson Welles film this week, as I’m gearing up on the forthcoming “The Other Side of the Wind” on Netflix, the restored and completed version of his last film in September. If you dig Orson Welles, check out “The Stranger” (Episode #215) from a couple weeks back, or any of his films, really. If you have a favorite and would like to see it reviewed, let me know at the form at onemoviepunch.com. And now... Today’s movie is “Touch of Evil”
Episode 215 - The Stranger (1946) 08/03/2018 Welcome back to Film Buff Fridays! All right, enough with the 1970s and 1980s films, no matter how groovy or action-packed or clown-packed they might have been. We’re talking it all the way back to 1946 for a film-noir picture by a little-known director named Orson Welles. And for another film-noir picture, check out “Sunset Boulevard” (1950), which contains one of the most famous lines in movie history. Got any film-noir suggestions? Let us know at onemoviepunch.com. And now... Today’s movie
Welcome back to Film Buff Fridays! All right, enough with the 1970s and 1980s films, no matter how groovy or action-packed or clown-packed they might have been. We’re talking it all the way back to 1946 for a film-noir picture by a little-known director named Orson Welles. And for another film-noir picture, check out “Sunset Boulevard” (1950), which contains one of the most famous lines in movie history. Got any film-noir suggestions? Let us know at onemoviepunch.com. And now... Today’s movie
Episode 077 - Sunset Boulevard (1950) 03/18/2018 Today’s movie is “Sunset Boulevard” (1950), the genre-defying classic directed by Billy Wilder and written in collaboration with Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman, Jr. The film follows the life of Joe Gillis (William Holden), a struggling screenwriter who stumbles into a live-in writing gig with famous silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) to edit her epic “Salome”. Meanwhile, Joe is trying to write a screenplay on the side with Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olsen), and having conflicting
Today’s movie is “Sunset Boulevard” (1950), the genre-defying classic directed by Billy Wilder and written in collaboration with Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman, Jr. The film follows the life of Joe Gillis (William Holden), a struggling screenwriter who stumbles into a live-in writing gig with famous silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) to edit her epic “Salome”. Meanwhile, Joe is trying to write a screenplay on the side with Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olsen), and having conflicting
