During his 40-year filmmaking career, retired director Carroll Ballard choose the great outdoors as the settings for all but one (“Nutcracker: The Movie”) of his eight movies, including two Vietnam War-era documentaries (“Beyond This Winter’s Wheat” and “Harvest”) commissioned and produced by the U.S. Information Agency. “Duma” was Ballard’s final feature effort and, with the…
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Rewind, Review, and Re-rate: ‘Score: A Film Music Documentary’: An Eye and Ear Opening Experience
February 26, 2022
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Often confused with soundtracks, which contain mostly source material (songs with lyrics), a score is instrumental music composed and performed for a specific movie. For some people, the only thing they will listen to are film scores and quite a few in the know think it is overall the most interesting genre in present-day music….
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Oscar-Nominated ‘M*A*S*H’ Star Sally Kellerman Dies From Heart Failure
Sally Kellerman, an actress known for playing U.S. Army Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film “M*A*S*H,” died on Thursday. She was 84. The Oscar and Emmy nominated actor died of heart failure at her home in the Woodlands Hills section of Los Angeles, her manager and publicist Alan Eichler said. In…
Golden Globe ‘M*A*S*H’ Actress Sally Kellerman Dies From Heart Failure
Sally Kellerman, an actress known for playing U.S. Army Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film “M*A*S*H,” died on Thursday. She was 84. The Oscar and Emmy nominated actor died of heart failure at her home in the Woodlands Hills section of Los Angeles, her manager and publicist Alan Eichler said. In…
The 8 Plots All Movies Are Based On
“The eight plots all movies are based on?” You mean stories aren’t limitless? There’s not an endless supply of plots? No. There are only a small collection of plots in all of plot-dom, and everything else is merely permutations and combinations of them. According to Irish playwright Denis Johnston (1901–1984), there are only eight. These…
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The Bible cautions Christians that they cannot serve two masters (see Matthew 6:24), but the state-sponsored Catholic organization Pacem in Terris (PiT) instructed member clergy to do exactly that in Czechoslovakia under communism. Adopting the language of the international peace movement, the ostensibly religious body was really a means for the state to monitor and…
Film Review: ‘Dog’: Two Dogfaces go on a Comedy Roadtrip; One’s a Dog
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Four Great Things About the ‘Yellowstone’ Western Drama Series
The standout new TV series, “Yellowstone,” has been very well received. Here are four things that make it such a fantastic, unique experience. Bucks a Lot of Stereotypes The Paramount Network’s series “Yellowstone” revolves around the Dutton family, a large and complex family with behavior patterns and tastes that don’t fall into the usual stereotypes….
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