Dennis Hopper could bring any movie to life. He simply throbbed energy. I remember when I first watched Apocalypse Now, I was getting bored as the story lumbered towards the final act — then Hopper appeared. He seemed like such an alien presence — totally out-of-place in this movie — but his energy and humour [...]
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Arthur Miller, The New York Times and “The Bicycle Thief”
This year I’ve had the privilege to do a lot of work for Corinth Films in aid of their 60th anniversary release of The Bicycle Thief. (NOTE: “Bicycle Thieves” is the title most often used in Canada and elsewhere these days because it’s a more accurate translation of the Italian title “Ladri di biciclette” but [...]
The Goodies and the “Baby Army”
PBS scored themselves a big hit when they started broadcasting Monty Python’s Flying Circus in the 1970s and, to help keep the ball rolling, they also briefly aired another popular Brit series called The Goodies. While Monty Python was more adult in nature (occasional coarse language and nudity), and had a heavy reliance on verbal [...]