In the most shockingly funny moment of Alexander Payne’s “Sideways,” Miles Raymond, the desperate English teacher and wine aficionado played by Paul Giamatti, has just learned that his book was turned down by the publisher he had his hopes pinned on. It’s more than a rejection; it’s the death of his dream. Miles is in the middle a chi-chi Napa Valley wine tasting, and suddenly he’s in dire need of a drink. He asks the bartender for a glass of red, but all the man will pour him is a “taste.” Miles offers to pay for a full glass, but no go: That would be breaking the rules. It’s like the side-order-of-toast scene in “Five Easy Pieces,” only what happens here is three times as explosive. Miles grabs the bottle on the bar and pours himself a drink, and he and the bartender wind up wrestling over it.
- 11/12/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Joachim Trier, writer/director of the multi-Oscar nominated film The Worst Person in the World, discusses his favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
A History of Violence (2005)
Gremlins (1984) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Tfh’s retrospective links
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Worst Person In The World (2021)
Back To The Future (1985)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s review
Mirror (1975)
Stalker (1979) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Soylent Green (1973)
Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Michael Lehmann’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
The Hunt (1959)
Remonstrance (1972)
Don’t Look Now (1973) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Bad Timing (1980) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Walkabout (1971) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Performance (1970) – Mark Goldblatt’s trailer commentary
Drive My Car (2021)
491 (1964)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Persona (1966)
The Wild Strawberries...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
A History of Violence (2005)
Gremlins (1984) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Tfh’s retrospective links
Innerspace (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Worst Person In The World (2021)
Back To The Future (1985)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s review
Mirror (1975)
Stalker (1979) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Soylent Green (1973)
Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Michael Lehmann’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
The Hunt (1959)
Remonstrance (1972)
Don’t Look Now (1973) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Bad Timing (1980) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Walkabout (1971) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Performance (1970) – Mark Goldblatt’s trailer commentary
Drive My Car (2021)
491 (1964)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Persona (1966)
The Wild Strawberries...
- 3/15/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Above: US 30" x 40" poster for The Black Bird. Art by Drew Struzan.As you might be able to tell from the name-above-the-title tagline above, George Segal, who died last month at the age of 87, was a big deal in the 1970s. By the ’90s, when I started getting into the films of both Segal and his one-time co-star and fellow traveler Elliott Gould, both of these New York-born Jewish superstars of the ’70s had been reduced to playing sitcom fathers on TV: Gould in Friends and Segal in Just Shoot Me. (And by the 2010s Segal was best known as a sitcom grandfather on The Goldbergs.) But Segal’s films in particular have not survived well in the public memory, perhaps because he devoted his career mostly to comedy and a kind of dark, sophisticated relationship comedy at that. California Split, the film he made with Gould for Robert Altman...
- 4/2/2021
- MUBI
George Segal with Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn during the filming of "The Bridge at Remagen" in 1968.
By Lee Pfeiffer
Actor George Segal has passed away at age 87. Segal became a rising young star in the 1960s and went on to enjoy success in both feature films and television. He made his big screen debut in "The Young Doctors" in 1961 and within a few years had appeared in "Ship of Fools" and his first starring role in "King Rat". The 1965 adaptation of James Clavell's novel found Segal as an American prisoner in a Japanese P.O.W. camp in WWII. He uses his guile and survival skills to not only stay alive but to thrive, much to disgust of British P.O.W.s who think his actions border on collaboration with the enemy. Segal's biggest break came the following year when he was cast in Mike Nichols' screen...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Actor George Segal has passed away at age 87. Segal became a rising young star in the 1960s and went on to enjoy success in both feature films and television. He made his big screen debut in "The Young Doctors" in 1961 and within a few years had appeared in "Ship of Fools" and his first starring role in "King Rat". The 1965 adaptation of James Clavell's novel found Segal as an American prisoner in a Japanese P.O.W. camp in WWII. He uses his guile and survival skills to not only stay alive but to thrive, much to disgust of British P.O.W.s who think his actions border on collaboration with the enemy. Segal's biggest break came the following year when he was cast in Mike Nichols' screen...
- 3/24/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
George Segal, whose decades-spanning acting career included earning an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to portraying Albert “Pops” Solomon on The Goldbergs, died on Tuesday, Variety reports. He was 87.
His wife, Sonia, confirmed the news. “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” she said in a statement.
Since 2013, Segal had portrayed family patriarch Albert “Pops” Solomon on ABC’s sitcom The Goldbergs. While he is known for his later-career TV roles...
His wife, Sonia, confirmed the news. “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” she said in a statement.
Since 2013, Segal had portrayed family patriarch Albert “Pops” Solomon on ABC’s sitcom The Goldbergs. While he is known for his later-career TV roles...
- 3/24/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Oscar-nominated actor George Segal died today from complications due to bypass surgery. He was 87.
Segal is best known for his TV sitcom roles as the publisher Jack Gallo on NBC’s Just Shoot Me!, a role that earned him two Golden Globe noms, and as family patriarch Albert “Pops” Solomon on The Goldbergs. He also headlined the late-’80s ABC detective drama Murphy’s Law, the 1987 CBS comedy Take Five and TV Land sitcom Retired at 35.
Segal was also an Oscar nominee for Mike Nichols’ 1966 Edward Albee adaptation Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — co-starring with A-listers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — and a leading man in movies. He starred in films by such legends as Stanley Kramer, Roger Corman (The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 1967), Sidney Lumet, Carl Reiner, Herbert Ross, Paul Mazursky and Robert Altman.
Click on the photo above to launch a retrospective gallery of his career.
Launch Gallery: George Segal: A Career In Photos...
Segal is best known for his TV sitcom roles as the publisher Jack Gallo on NBC’s Just Shoot Me!, a role that earned him two Golden Globe noms, and as family patriarch Albert “Pops” Solomon on The Goldbergs. He also headlined the late-’80s ABC detective drama Murphy’s Law, the 1987 CBS comedy Take Five and TV Land sitcom Retired at 35.
Segal was also an Oscar nominee for Mike Nichols’ 1966 Edward Albee adaptation Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — co-starring with A-listers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — and a leading man in movies. He starred in films by such legends as Stanley Kramer, Roger Corman (The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, 1967), Sidney Lumet, Carl Reiner, Herbert Ross, Paul Mazursky and Robert Altman.
Click on the photo above to launch a retrospective gallery of his career.
Launch Gallery: George Segal: A Career In Photos...
- 3/24/2021
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
Beloved actor George Segal died today, his wife, Sonia Segal, revealed.
“The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” she said in a statement, according to Deadline.
Segal was a cast member on ABC's The Goldbergs in a role he's held since the series debuted in 2013. He played Albert "Pops" Solomon.
The actor filmed up to episode 16 of the eighth season before his passing, with the network set to air the episode on April 7.
It is also expected to pay tribute to the star on-air.
While Segal has been a firm fixture on the 1980s-set comedy series, he is also well known for playing Jack Gallo on NBC's hit series, Just Shoot Me.
Segal's popularity soared in the 1960s and 1970s.
Some of his most acclaimed roles are in films such as Ship of Fools (1965), King Rat (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...
“The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” she said in a statement, according to Deadline.
Segal was a cast member on ABC's The Goldbergs in a role he's held since the series debuted in 2013. He played Albert "Pops" Solomon.
The actor filmed up to episode 16 of the eighth season before his passing, with the network set to air the episode on April 7.
It is also expected to pay tribute to the star on-air.
While Segal has been a firm fixture on the 1980s-set comedy series, he is also well known for playing Jack Gallo on NBC's hit series, Just Shoot Me.
Segal's popularity soared in the 1960s and 1970s.
Some of his most acclaimed roles are in films such as Ship of Fools (1965), King Rat (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...
- 3/24/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
George Segal, whose long career included playing Albert “Pops” Solomon on “The Goldbergs,” and garnering an Oscar nom for supporting actor for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” died Tuesday. He was 87.
His wife Sonia announced his death, saying, “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery.”
Segal’s longtime manager Abe Hoch said, “I am saddened by the fact that my close friend and client of many years has passed away. I will miss his warmth, humor, camaraderie and friendship. He was a wonderful human.”
Some of the top directors of the 1960s and ’70s, including Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Paul Mazursky and Sidney Lumet cast Segal for his gently humorous everyman quality, and he often played an unlucky-in-love professional or a writer who gets in over his head.
In Nichols’ 1967 Edward Albee adaptation “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,...
His wife Sonia announced his death, saying, “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery.”
Segal’s longtime manager Abe Hoch said, “I am saddened by the fact that my close friend and client of many years has passed away. I will miss his warmth, humor, camaraderie and friendship. He was a wonderful human.”
Some of the top directors of the 1960s and ’70s, including Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Paul Mazursky and Sidney Lumet cast Segal for his gently humorous everyman quality, and he often played an unlucky-in-love professional or a writer who gets in over his head.
In Nichols’ 1967 Edward Albee adaptation “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,...
- 3/24/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome to this week’s Monday Night Raw review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and this is The Charlie Rose Show, complete with a complimentary shower (don’t bend over). We’ve got more from the Retribution faction, who just hate those hideous curtains you picked out to go over the landing. We’ve also got the big build toward the Clash Of Champions card, so let’s get to it…
Match #1: Andrade & Angel Garza def. Humberto Carrillo & Dominik Mysterio and Seth Rollins & Murphy – Raw Tag Team Championship Match at Clash of Champions The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
In a fast and furious Triple Threat Tag Team Match to determine Raw Tag Team Champions The Street Profits’ challengers this Sunday at WWE Clash of Champions, Dominik Mysterio & Humberto Carrillo looked to be flying high as Dominik sought to chase after his first WWE title.
Match #1: Andrade & Angel Garza def. Humberto Carrillo & Dominik Mysterio and Seth Rollins & Murphy – Raw Tag Team Championship Match at Clash of Champions The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
In a fast and furious Triple Threat Tag Team Match to determine Raw Tag Team Champions The Street Profits’ challengers this Sunday at WWE Clash of Champions, Dominik Mysterio & Humberto Carrillo looked to be flying high as Dominik sought to chase after his first WWE title.
- 9/22/2020
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Joel Schumacher, the director, screenwriter and costume designer with a wide-ranging filmography that includes St. Elmo’s Fire, The Lost Boys, several John Grisham movies and two Nineties Batman films, died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, Variety reports. He was 80.
Schumacher’s publicist confirmed the filmmaker’s death, though did not offer any specifics on Schumacher’s cancer diagnosis. The publicist said he “passed away quietly” and “will be fondly remembered by his friends and collaborators.”
Schumacher spent five decades in Hollywood, an openly gay man who moved...
Schumacher’s publicist confirmed the filmmaker’s death, though did not offer any specifics on Schumacher’s cancer diagnosis. The publicist said he “passed away quietly” and “will be fondly remembered by his friends and collaborators.”
Schumacher spent five decades in Hollywood, an openly gay man who moved...
- 6/22/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Talk about a film whose time has come … Paul Mazursky’s ode to womanly liberation takes a sensible, gentle approach. Yes, the husband was a total jerk, and so is the first man Jill Clayburgh’s Erica turns to in need. What’s more important is the feeling of empowerment on the personal intimate level: it’s okay for a woman to have personal priorities; it’s okay to decline commitment to the whims and wishes of a male companion. Forty-two years later, the premise holds — especially the film’s emphasis on social support from one’s friends.
An Unmarried Woman
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1032
1978 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 124 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 9, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn, Kelly Bishop, Lisa Lucas, Linda Miller.
Cinematography: Arthur J. Ornitz
Film Editor: Stuart H. Pappé
Original Music: Bill Conti
Produced by Paul Mazursky,...
An Unmarried Woman
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1032
1978 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 124 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date June 9, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn, Kelly Bishop, Lisa Lucas, Linda Miller.
Cinematography: Arthur J. Ornitz
Film Editor: Stuart H. Pappé
Original Music: Bill Conti
Produced by Paul Mazursky,...
- 6/9/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Prop master Barry Bedig was literally born into the biz. Yet despite being the son of storied special effects man Sass Bedig, Barry’s youth was largely unaffected by Tinseltown’s glare. Infrequent studio visits with Dad produced understated memories. “I got to ride [Roy Rogers’ horse] Trigger once,” he deadpans.
Obtaining union status at 25 in 1964 at 20th Century Fox after a stint in the U.S. Navy, Bedig was one of the youngest prop masters in the history of Iatse Local 44, having gained the prerequisite 2,000 hours for membership, then passed the daunting written exam.
He hit the big time in 1972 when he was called for Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask.” Bedig’s contributions to the seven-segment film would become his career trademark: detail. He was tasked with creating the Jester’s wand for the “Do Aphrodisiacs Work?” sequence — a...
Obtaining union status at 25 in 1964 at 20th Century Fox after a stint in the U.S. Navy, Bedig was one of the youngest prop masters in the history of Iatse Local 44, having gained the prerequisite 2,000 hours for membership, then passed the daunting written exam.
He hit the big time in 1972 when he was called for Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask.” Bedig’s contributions to the seven-segment film would become his career trademark: detail. He was tasked with creating the Jester’s wand for the “Do Aphrodisiacs Work?” sequence — a...
- 2/1/2019
- by James C. Udel
- Variety Film + TV
Every year, the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys must choose which notable performers and creators to memorialize in their In Memoriam segments, and the three organizations will have many talented entertainers to remember at 2019’s ceremonies.
The past year saw the loss of celebrated stars of the big screen, such “Smokey and the Bandit” star Burt Reynolds, who died Sept. 6. Reynolds, who was 82, earned an Oscar nom for “Boogie Nights” and also appeared on television in “Evening Shade.”
Among the other notable movie performers lost this year were “Superman” and “Smallville” actress Margot Kidder, who died May 13; “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” star Sondra Locke, who was also a film director and died Nov. 3; and Susan Anspach, who starred in “Five Easy Pieces” and “Blume in Love” and died April 2.
Several stars known for their work in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s passed away in 2018, including Dorothy Malone, who starred...
The past year saw the loss of celebrated stars of the big screen, such “Smokey and the Bandit” star Burt Reynolds, who died Sept. 6. Reynolds, who was 82, earned an Oscar nom for “Boogie Nights” and also appeared on television in “Evening Shade.”
Among the other notable movie performers lost this year were “Superman” and “Smallville” actress Margot Kidder, who died May 13; “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” star Sondra Locke, who was also a film director and died Nov. 3; and Susan Anspach, who starred in “Five Easy Pieces” and “Blume in Love” and died April 2.
Several stars known for their work in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s passed away in 2018, including Dorothy Malone, who starred...
- 12/24/2018
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Susan Anspach died on April 2 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75.
Anspach's son, Caleb Goddard, announced her death to the New York Times and said the cause was coronary failure.
Anspach was best known for her roles in 1970s films including Bob Rafaelson's Five Easy Pieces, Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love, and Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam.
Later in her career, Anspach landed recurring roles on television series. She starred in the NBC primetime soap oepra The Yellow Rose as Grace McKenzie. She also appeared in the 13-hour mini-series Space and the comedy The Slap Maxwell Story.
Raised in Queens, New York, Anspach graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School before becoming involved with musical theater. She starred in multiple Broadway and off-Broadway shows, such as “Hair” and “A View from the Bridge” with Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. Her first feature...
Anspach's son, Caleb Goddard, announced her death to the New York Times and said the cause was coronary failure.
Anspach was best known for her roles in 1970s films including Bob Rafaelson's Five Easy Pieces, Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love, and Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam.
Later in her career, Anspach landed recurring roles on television series. She starred in the NBC primetime soap oepra The Yellow Rose as Grace McKenzie. She also appeared in the 13-hour mini-series Space and the comedy The Slap Maxwell Story.
Raised in Queens, New York, Anspach graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School before becoming involved with musical theater. She starred in multiple Broadway and off-Broadway shows, such as “Hair” and “A View from the Bridge” with Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. Her first feature...
- 4/17/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Actor who starred in Five Easy Pieces and Play It Again, Sam
With her vibrant appearance in Bob Rafelson’s landmark road movie Five Easy Pieces (1970), Susan Anspach, who has died aged 75, emerged at the same time as her co-star Jack Nicholson as a significant figure in the new Hollywood of the 1970s. However, Anspach, unlike Nicholson, saw her film career dwindle after a decade that has been called Hollywood’s last golden age.
“I was getting reviews that compared me to Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis,” Anspach said in 1978. “But there were no Hepburn or Davis parts.” Nevertheless, she made the most of the strong female roles she was given in the Rafelson movie, and in Play It Again, Sam (1972), as the ex-wife of a film critic (Woody Allen), and Blume in Love (1973), as the ex-wife of a divorce lawyer (George Segal) – both former husbands are still in love with her.
With her vibrant appearance in Bob Rafelson’s landmark road movie Five Easy Pieces (1970), Susan Anspach, who has died aged 75, emerged at the same time as her co-star Jack Nicholson as a significant figure in the new Hollywood of the 1970s. However, Anspach, unlike Nicholson, saw her film career dwindle after a decade that has been called Hollywood’s last golden age.
“I was getting reviews that compared me to Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis,” Anspach said in 1978. “But there were no Hepburn or Davis parts.” Nevertheless, she made the most of the strong female roles she was given in the Rafelson movie, and in Play It Again, Sam (1972), as the ex-wife of a film critic (Woody Allen), and Blume in Love (1973), as the ex-wife of a divorce lawyer (George Segal) – both former husbands are still in love with her.
- 4/11/2018
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Actress Susan Anspach, best known for roles in landmark 1970s films like “Five Easy Pieces” and “Play It Again, Sam,” has died in Los Angeles. She was 75.
Her son, Caleb Goddard, announced the news on Thursday, telling the New York Times she died from coronary failure Monday.
Born in New York City in 1942,...
Her son, Caleb Goddard, announced the news on Thursday, telling the New York Times she died from coronary failure Monday.
Born in New York City in 1942,...
- 4/6/2018
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Actress Susan Anspach, whose style came to epitomize the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s in such films as Five Easy Pieces, has died. She passed away Monday at her home in Los Angeles from coronary problems, according to her son, Caleb Goddard.
Anspach was on the cutting edge of acting in the 1960s. She appeared in the off-Broadway version of Hair early in her career, then moved on to such films as The Landlord, Blume in Love and opposite Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces.
Anspach (pronounced Ons-bok) began her film career in 1972 in Hal Ashby’s The Landlord (1970), following that same year with her definitive role, the classic Five Easy Pieces directed by Bob Rafelson. Anspach portrayed a New Age intellectual who sleeps with Nicholson even though she is engaged to his character’s brother.
She continued along with a busy schedule, appearing as writer-director-star Woody Allen...
Anspach was on the cutting edge of acting in the 1960s. She appeared in the off-Broadway version of Hair early in her career, then moved on to such films as The Landlord, Blume in Love and opposite Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces.
Anspach (pronounced Ons-bok) began her film career in 1972 in Hal Ashby’s The Landlord (1970), following that same year with her definitive role, the classic Five Easy Pieces directed by Bob Rafelson. Anspach portrayed a New Age intellectual who sleeps with Nicholson even though she is engaged to his character’s brother.
She continued along with a busy schedule, appearing as writer-director-star Woody Allen...
- 4/6/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Susan Anspach, the blonde actress known for her roles in ‘70s films including Bob Rafaelson’s “Five Easy Pieces,” Paul Mazursky’s “Blume in Love,” and Woody Allen’s “Play It Again, Sam,” died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75.
Anspach’s son, Caleb Goddard, announced her death to the New York Times and said the cause was coronary failure.
In “Five Easy Pieces,” Anspach played a serious pianist who had a steamy sex scene with Jack Nicholson despite being engaged to his brother; in “Play It Again, Sam,” she played Allen’s critical ex-wife. In Dusan Makavayev’s 1981 “Montenegro,” she played a disturbed housewife, and in “Blume in Love” she portrayed the ex-wife of George Segal’s character who he tries to win back.
Later in her career, Anspach landed recurring roles on television series. She appeared in the family drama “The Yellow Rose,” the 13-hour...
Anspach’s son, Caleb Goddard, announced her death to the New York Times and said the cause was coronary failure.
In “Five Easy Pieces,” Anspach played a serious pianist who had a steamy sex scene with Jack Nicholson despite being engaged to his brother; in “Play It Again, Sam,” she played Allen’s critical ex-wife. In Dusan Makavayev’s 1981 “Montenegro,” she played a disturbed housewife, and in “Blume in Love” she portrayed the ex-wife of George Segal’s character who he tries to win back.
Later in her career, Anspach landed recurring roles on television series. She appeared in the family drama “The Yellow Rose,” the 13-hour...
- 4/6/2018
- by Ariana Brockington
- Variety Film + TV
Lawrence Turman’s film stands alongside Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love and other films of the late 60’s/early 70’s that found middle class Americans fed up and frustrated in their search for marital bliss. Carrying on in that tradition, Stockbroker zeroes in on one man’s attempt to patch up his empty union through the fine art of voyeurism. Richard Benjamin plays the nebbish with the wandering eye and Joanna Shimkus is his beleaguered wife.
- 2/20/2017
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
By Todd Garbarini
The Royale Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles will be presenting a 50th anniversary screening of Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? based upon Edward Albee’s play. The 131-minute film, which stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal and Sandy Dennis, will be screened on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 7:00 pm.
Actor George Segal, who appears in the film as Nick (Honey’s Husband), is scheduled to appear at a Q&A session after the film to discuss his role and career.
From the press release:
Who’S Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 50th Anniversary Screening
Tribute to Oscar-winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler
Oscar Nominee George Segal In Person for post-screening Q&A with Lafca President Stephen Farber
Tuesday, February 23, at 7:00 Pm at the Royal Theatre
Skeptics said Edward Albee’s scathing dissection of marriage could never be turned into a movie. But when the Production...
The Royale Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles will be presenting a 50th anniversary screening of Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? based upon Edward Albee’s play. The 131-minute film, which stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal and Sandy Dennis, will be screened on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 7:00 pm.
Actor George Segal, who appears in the film as Nick (Honey’s Husband), is scheduled to appear at a Q&A session after the film to discuss his role and career.
From the press release:
Who’S Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 50th Anniversary Screening
Tribute to Oscar-winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler
Oscar Nominee George Segal In Person for post-screening Q&A with Lafca President Stephen Farber
Tuesday, February 23, at 7:00 Pm at the Royal Theatre
Skeptics said Edward Albee’s scathing dissection of marriage could never be turned into a movie. But when the Production...
- 2/18/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Lenny Bruce: Dustin Hoffman in the 1974 Bob Fosse movie. Lenny Bruce movie review: Polemical stand-up comedian merited less timid biopic (Oscar Movie Series) Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic Lenny has two chief assets: the ever relevant free speech issues it raises and the riveting presence of Valerie Perrine. The film itself, however, is only sporadically thought-provoking or emotionally gripping; in fact, Lenny is a major artistic letdown, considering all the talent involved and the fertile material at hand. After all, much more should have come out of a joint effort between director Fosse, fresh off his Academy Award win for Cabaret; playwright-screenwriter Julian Barry, whose stage version of Lenny earned Cliff Gorman a Tony Award; two-time Best Actor Oscar nominee Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy); and cinematographer Bruce Surtees (Play Misty for Me, Blume in Love). Their larger-than-life subject? Lenny Bruce, the stand-up comedian who became one of the...
- 6/5/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Quentin Tarantino is now in control at the New Beverly Cinema. After having been closed for a month, the venerable L.A. theater reopened Wednesday with Tarantino in charge of programming. Tarantino, who has owned the theater for seven years but had only intermittently made suggestions to the schedule, confirmed last month in La Weekly that he has now taken over for previous manager Michael Torgan. The theater, known for doubleheaders of older films, marked its rebirth by showing the late Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Blume in Love. Read more Quentin Tarantino to Film 'Hateful Eight'
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- 10/2/2014
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Quentin Tarantino officially begins his tenure as film programmer of the New Beverly Cinema tonight when he re-opens the La institution after a monthlong remodeling. On the docket is a Paul Mazursky double feature of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Blume In Love, which kicks off three months of Tarantino-programmed films, as Deadline reported last month. Many of those films, screened on film either on 16mm or 35mm, will come from Tarantino’s personal vaults. Tonight’s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice print is the best known print out there, according to Tarantino, who was gifted with the newly struck print after his Django Unchained opening.
After floating the beloved New Beverly business for years, Tarantino took over as manager and programmer last month from owner Michael Torgan with a renewed commitment to screening movies only on film. New features and upgrades inside the historic theater include the addition of mechanical masking,...
After floating the beloved New Beverly business for years, Tarantino took over as manager and programmer last month from owner Michael Torgan with a renewed commitment to screening movies only on film. New features and upgrades inside the historic theater include the addition of mechanical masking,...
- 10/1/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Quentin Tarantino’s passion for the New Beverly Cinema began when he was just another kid showing up for the nightly double feature. It grew when he found success as a filmmaker and began to subsidize owner Sherman Torgan to the tune of $5,000 per month to keep the place open. Ultimately Tarantino bought the building and now he’s taking over the whole theater from Torgan’s son Michael. Tarantino has grand plans to curate a program of films he is confident will please fellow cinefiles and give him an excuse to showcase his voluminous collection of film prints and trailers.
His first move: Jettisoning the digital projector that Michael installed. When the L.A. institution reopens in October after three months of renovations and a thorough cleaning of the onetime porno palace, the New Beverly will have a unique mission: All 35mm prints, all the time. “The big thing...
His first move: Jettisoning the digital projector that Michael installed. When the L.A. institution reopens in October after three months of renovations and a thorough cleaning of the onetime porno palace, the New Beverly will have a unique mission: All 35mm prints, all the time. “The big thing...
- 9/7/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The Supporting Actress Smackdown of '73 arrives on July 31st, just over two weeks from now. You need to get your votes in too if you want to participate (instructions at the bottom of this post). If you've wandered in from elsewhere and are like, "What's a Smackdown?," here's how it started.
The Smackdown Panel for July
Without further ado let's meet our panel who will be discussing popular classics Paper Moon, The Exorcist, and American Graffiti as well as the more obscure title Summer Wishes Winter Dreams. All of the Supporting Actress nominees this Oscar vintage were first timers and so are our Smackdown panelists.
Special Guest
Dana Delany
Dana Delany is an actress working on stage, screen, television and now internet. She was last seen starring in "Body of Proof" on ABC. In August you can rate and review the pilot "Hand of God" in which she co-stars with Ron Perlman on Amazon.
The Smackdown Panel for July
Without further ado let's meet our panel who will be discussing popular classics Paper Moon, The Exorcist, and American Graffiti as well as the more obscure title Summer Wishes Winter Dreams. All of the Supporting Actress nominees this Oscar vintage were first timers and so are our Smackdown panelists.
Special Guest
Dana Delany
Dana Delany is an actress working on stage, screen, television and now internet. She was last seen starring in "Body of Proof" on ABC. In August you can rate and review the pilot "Hand of God" in which she co-stars with Ron Perlman on Amazon.
- 7/14/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Mazursky and Jill Clayburgh on the set of An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Paul Mazursky, one of the most acclaimed and prolific filmmakers to come of age in the 1960s, has died from cardiac arrest. He was 84 years old. Mazursky originally worked as an actor in films, appearing in such movies as "The Blackboard Jungle". However, with the revolutionary freedoms that came into movie-making in the mid-1960s, Mazursky turned to screenwriting and directing. His first screenplay was for the Peter Sellers hippie comedy "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!". He made his directorial debut with "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" in 1969. The film starred Natalie Wood and Robert Culp as a hip, privileged couple who contemplate wife swapping with their best friends, played by Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon, both of whom rose to stardom because of the film. Like most of Mazursky's films, the movie viewed social significant issues- in this case,...
Paul Mazursky, one of the most acclaimed and prolific filmmakers to come of age in the 1960s, has died from cardiac arrest. He was 84 years old. Mazursky originally worked as an actor in films, appearing in such movies as "The Blackboard Jungle". However, with the revolutionary freedoms that came into movie-making in the mid-1960s, Mazursky turned to screenwriting and directing. His first screenplay was for the Peter Sellers hippie comedy "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!". He made his directorial debut with "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" in 1969. The film starred Natalie Wood and Robert Culp as a hip, privileged couple who contemplate wife swapping with their best friends, played by Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon, both of whom rose to stardom because of the film. Like most of Mazursky's films, the movie viewed social significant issues- in this case,...
- 7/2/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
He was a visionary in terms of independent filmmaking with a series of pioneering works beginning in the late ’60s. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Woody Allen of the West Coast’, Paul Mazursky was nominated for five Oscars, mostly for his writing. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Harry And Tonto (which won an Oscar for star Art Carny in 1974), Moscow On The Hudson, An Unmarried Woman, Down And Out In Beverly Hills were among his many accomplishments. His last significant work was Enemies A Love Story in 1989, the story of a Holocaust survivor who finds himself involved with three women – his current wife, a passionate married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war. Mazursky has spent the last couple of decades acting in small roles, but there was a time when he was considered one of the most important filmmakers working, and for good reason.
- 7/2/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Paul Mazursky died yesterday of pulmonary cardiac arrest. Born Irwin Mazursky in 1930, he'd go on to be nominated for five Oscars. After getting his start as an actor, Mazursky eventually became known best for writing and directing films that deftly captured contemporary life at the end of the 1960s and 1970s, with movies like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and An Unmarried Woman. His work was hugely influential, especially on those making similarly honest dramedies. 2006's Yippee, an autobiographical documentary about his trip to a Ukrainian Hasidic Jew festival, was his last feature. Most recently, he appeared as Norm on Curb Your Enthusiasm and has served as a film critic for Vanity Fair. He was 84.
- 7/1/2014
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
He may not have been as well known as his contemporaries of the American golden age of cinema—Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Bob Rafelson etc.—but Paul Mazursky was just as influential. A writer, director and actor, Mazursky cemented his reputation with relationship films like "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "An Unmarried Woman," "Blume in Love," and "Enemies: A Love Story" and yet, despite five Oscar nominations, was somewhat underappreciated. He passed away today at the age of 84, and it's probably time to dip into his oeuvre if you haven't. And rather than provide a life overview that you can get from anywhere else with a quick click (Thompson On Hollywood has a pretty good one), instead, below you'll find about two and a half hours of Mazursky and Dave Poland, chatting extensively about the filmmaker's career. And certainly, if you want all you can get straight from the man himself,...
- 7/1/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Writer, director and actor Paul Mazursky is set to receive the Writers Guild West's Screen Laurel Award at the upcoming 2014 ceremony on February 1. The honor recognizes Mazursky's lifetime of work in the film industry. His accomplishments (which include five Oscar nominations and two WGA wins) are elaborated upon by Wgaw vice president Howard A. Rodman:“Paul Mazursky’s talents as an actor (he was in Stanley Kubrick’s first film) and filmmaker (one of the signature directors of the 1970s) should not be allowed to obscure a central fact: he is among our greatest living screenwriters. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, An Unmarried Woman – five films in six years, any of which can make you laugh and cry, break and mend your heart. His voice is strong, unique, hilarious, wise, unmistakable. He is fearless about his characters’ flaws, but always...
- 1/7/2014
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
The summer movie season tends to be thought of as a big, vast, noisy, expensive parade — a monolith of fun. The movies, before they come out, have an aura of invincibility. Most of them have been designed to be rockets to the other side of the box-office rainbow, and each week, when another rocket or two (or three) gets launched, the grosses cast their own aura: “Look, up in the air! It’s a smash! It’s a winner! It’s Superhit!” The breathless ritual reporting of those weekend tallies reflects something much deeper than the fact that people are obsessed with Hollywood accounting.
- 8/22/2011
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Maybe you've been wondering what some of your favorite 70's directors have been up to ever since they stopped making movies. It turns out that in the case of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Blume in Love director Paul Mazursky, he's just been laying low, waiting for someone to give him money to shoot an orgy scene in 3-D. Mazursky recently told The Wall Street Journal: "They want to remake Bob and Carol, and I said, 'If you give me a lot of money upfront and you do the orgy in 3D, I'd be interested.'" Okay, this needs to happen. Here's why.
- 1/13/2011
- Movieline
Filmmaker/actor/writer Paul Mazursky has been selected as this year's recipient for the Career Achievement Award on behalf of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca). The director of "Harry and Tonto," "Blume in Love," and "An Unmarried Woman," will collect his prize at the 36th Lafca awards ceremony on Saturday, January 15, 2011. "It’s impossible to imagine American independent cinema in its current form without Paul Mazursky, in all his ...
- 10/25/2010
- Indiewire
The Caiman (Il Caimano)
An overly-ambitious mix of movie satire, political polemic and personal drama, The Caiman is strongest when it is least on its political soap box. Stripped of its thematic excesses, it's a bracing comedy about one desperate producer's attempt to revive his family life. Bolstered by an endearingly vulnerable performance by Silvio Orlando as the beleagured producer, the Competition film should be a strong contender for the Palme d'Or, and Orlando's endearing performance could notch a Best Actor award.
For the true movie buffs at this festival, Caiman recalls Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love, about a husband's tender and nutty struggles to reconcile his separation with the fact that he still loves his wife.
In this heady mix, Berlusconi is the MacGuffin: Namely, making a film about Berlusconi is the Quixotic grand quest which Bruno, our comical, capsizing producer latches on to. A producer of the sort one runs into at the Riviera -- he's churned out a lifetime's worth of schlock. Nevertheless, they are the sort of movies that his two boys, 9 and 7, think are terrific.
Remarkably, a project falls into his lap from a new writer, a severe young woman who wishes to distill and expose the entire media and political career of Berlusconi into a feature film. It's not a project for the faint-hearted, and Bruno is no social crusader; in fact, he considers Berlusconi's opponents on the Left to be hopeless sad-sacks. And action-adventure is his genre, not political films. Not surprisingly, a film about Berlusconi is not an idea that his countrymen latch onto readily: Some fear repercussions, while others dismiss making a film "about someone you already know everything about."
Swirling his story through a film-in-a-film orbit, filmmaker Nanni Moretti mixes political satire with the crazy movement of the film world: An actor wants to make Berlusconi more dashing and powerful; a set designer wants to make his world more noble and tasteful -- in essence, the focus is quickly shifted from the sour screenplay to a high-speech soap.
Unfortunately, the Berlusconi sections are a contradictory tonal swirl, movie satire meshed with equally superficial political editorializing. Yet, amid this high storyline, a much more powerful personal story emerges below the buzz-line radar: Bruno is magnificent with his young boys, a wise and doting father who nourishes them and inspires them with his storytelling antics. All the while, he is trying to win back the love of his life, his wife, a former actress who has moved on to other things. You truly root for Bruno, and care about his family. It's in these transitional family scenes between the Berlusconi yap that The Caiman is most touching and eloquent.
In essence, this movie could use some trimming and the courage to drop its self-delusional pose as a high-minded political tract, and embrace the fact that it is best as a small family drama.
Under Moretti's deft hand, the performances are consistently lively and credible. In addition to Silvio Orlando's heady performance, Margherita Buy is winningly sympathetic as his change-of-heart wife.
Technical contributions are distinguished by production designer Giancarlo Basili's keen eye for the telling character stitches in both Bruno's loving home and his ragtag office.
THE CAIMAN
Sacher Film, Bac Films, Stephan Films, France 3 Cinema with the collaboration of Wild Bunch, Canal +, Cinecinema in association with Sofica unietoile 3, Sofica comfimage 17.
Director: Nanni Moretti; Story: Nanni Moretti, Heidrun Schleef; Screenwriters: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli; Producers: Angelo Barbagallo, Nanni Moretti; Director of photography: Arnaldo Catinari; Production designer: Giancarlo Basili; Costume designer: Lina Nerli Taviani; Editor: Esmeralda Calabria; Music: Franco Piersanti.
Cast. Bruno: Silvio Orlando; Paola: Margherita Buy; Andrea: Daniele Rampello; Giacomo: Giacomo Passarelli; Teresa: Jasmine Trinca; Luisa: Cecilia Dazzi; Margherita: Martina Lero.
No MPAA Rating, running time 112 minutes.
For the true movie buffs at this festival, Caiman recalls Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love, about a husband's tender and nutty struggles to reconcile his separation with the fact that he still loves his wife.
In this heady mix, Berlusconi is the MacGuffin: Namely, making a film about Berlusconi is the Quixotic grand quest which Bruno, our comical, capsizing producer latches on to. A producer of the sort one runs into at the Riviera -- he's churned out a lifetime's worth of schlock. Nevertheless, they are the sort of movies that his two boys, 9 and 7, think are terrific.
Remarkably, a project falls into his lap from a new writer, a severe young woman who wishes to distill and expose the entire media and political career of Berlusconi into a feature film. It's not a project for the faint-hearted, and Bruno is no social crusader; in fact, he considers Berlusconi's opponents on the Left to be hopeless sad-sacks. And action-adventure is his genre, not political films. Not surprisingly, a film about Berlusconi is not an idea that his countrymen latch onto readily: Some fear repercussions, while others dismiss making a film "about someone you already know everything about."
Swirling his story through a film-in-a-film orbit, filmmaker Nanni Moretti mixes political satire with the crazy movement of the film world: An actor wants to make Berlusconi more dashing and powerful; a set designer wants to make his world more noble and tasteful -- in essence, the focus is quickly shifted from the sour screenplay to a high-speech soap.
Unfortunately, the Berlusconi sections are a contradictory tonal swirl, movie satire meshed with equally superficial political editorializing. Yet, amid this high storyline, a much more powerful personal story emerges below the buzz-line radar: Bruno is magnificent with his young boys, a wise and doting father who nourishes them and inspires them with his storytelling antics. All the while, he is trying to win back the love of his life, his wife, a former actress who has moved on to other things. You truly root for Bruno, and care about his family. It's in these transitional family scenes between the Berlusconi yap that The Caiman is most touching and eloquent.
In essence, this movie could use some trimming and the courage to drop its self-delusional pose as a high-minded political tract, and embrace the fact that it is best as a small family drama.
Under Moretti's deft hand, the performances are consistently lively and credible. In addition to Silvio Orlando's heady performance, Margherita Buy is winningly sympathetic as his change-of-heart wife.
Technical contributions are distinguished by production designer Giancarlo Basili's keen eye for the telling character stitches in both Bruno's loving home and his ragtag office.
THE CAIMAN
Sacher Film, Bac Films, Stephan Films, France 3 Cinema with the collaboration of Wild Bunch, Canal +, Cinecinema in association with Sofica unietoile 3, Sofica comfimage 17.
Director: Nanni Moretti; Story: Nanni Moretti, Heidrun Schleef; Screenwriters: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli; Producers: Angelo Barbagallo, Nanni Moretti; Director of photography: Arnaldo Catinari; Production designer: Giancarlo Basili; Costume designer: Lina Nerli Taviani; Editor: Esmeralda Calabria; Music: Franco Piersanti.
Cast. Bruno: Silvio Orlando; Paola: Margherita Buy; Andrea: Daniele Rampello; Giacomo: Giacomo Passarelli; Teresa: Jasmine Trinca; Luisa: Cecilia Dazzi; Margherita: Martina Lero.
No MPAA Rating, running time 112 minutes.
- 5/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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