Lauren Bacall Receives Honorary Oscar Nov 16, 2009
She went on to star in more than 30 films, including classics such as "The Big Sleep," "Key Largo," "How to Marry a Millionaire" and "Murder on the Orient Express." She received a single Academy Award nomination (for Best Supporting Actress for "The Mirror Has Two Faces") but had never won. Ever feisty, the 85-year-old actress shooed away an escort who tried to help her to the podium to accept her Oscar. (CBS News)
Bacall, Corman receive early Oscars Nov 15, 2009
She went on to star in more than 30 films, including classics such as "The Big Sleep" and "Key Largo.". Corman has directed more than 50 films and produced more than 300 during his five-decade career, including "It Conquered the World" and 1960's "The Little Shop of Horrors.". (MSNBC -- News)
In ‘This Is It,’ the King of Pop lives on Oct 29, 2009
The crew filmed an inspired sequence in which Jackson inserts himself into classic Hollywood movies such as Gilda and The Big Sleep, alongside Rita Hayworth and Humphrey Bogart. The sequence is for Smooth Criminal, and it now has posthumous logic. (Boston Globe)
Inside 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' From The New York Debut Oct 28, 2009
The green screen is also the place where directors create a film-noir mash-up of scenes from classics like "Gilda" and "The Big Sleep," into which Jackson is inserted, running from machine-gun fire and jumping through a glass window a big introductory number for "Smooth Criminal." Filmed in Culver City as well is a 3-D short for "Thriller" with a huge cemetery, zombies and ghosts. As it is shot, Jackson watches along, sucking on a lollipop and adding his thoughts. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Bitch and Famous Aug 27, 2009
Nope, says legendary actress Lauren Bacall, star of classic film 'The Big Sleep' and a Hollywood veteran of more than 60 years. Now, I haven't seen the hysteria- and swoon-inducing 'Twilight' movie myself, but it looks like a good enough chunk of celluloid. (iAfrica.com)
The Limits Of Control Jul 23, 2009
No one - including its authors - ever managed to tie up the loose ends littering the plot of the Howard Hawks classic The Big Sleep. But it hardly mattered. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The unrivaled year for moviemaking: 1939 Jul 12, 2009
Why not, say, 1946, a year that saw the highest movie attendance on record and films like The Best Years of Our Lives, My Darling Clementine, Hitchcock s Notorious, Capra s It s a Wonderful Life, Bogart in The Big Sleep, a wave of film noirs like The Killers and the arrival on US shores of such post-WWII foreign classics as La Belle et la B. te and Rome, Open City. (Boston Globe)
Encores from the Boston Jewish Film Festival May 31, 2009
Among the films to be screened are "The Big Sleep," "The Maltese Falcon," and "Double Indemnity." 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-267-9300. (Boston Globe)
Runs Out Of Scheme May 15, 2009
I'm puzzled why the talented director of "Brick" -- a little-seen riff on "The Big Sleep" (set in a contemporary high school) that I loved -- would want to subordinate his distinctive voice to slavishly imitate a director whose self-conscious whimsy has turned into an artistic cul-de-sac. "The Brothers Bloom" is actually a tad more entertaining than Anderson's last fiasco, "The Darjeeling Limited," with which it shares a star (Adrien Brody), a self-mythologizing plot, a cross-country train trip... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Canada's comic-book hero May 9, 2009
Seth, however, has them immediately at hand functioning rotary phones like the kind Bogey dialled in The Big Sleep, a Beaver gumball machine, Ookpik dolls, a working Moffat refrigerator from 1956 in the kitchen, a wall covered with cheap Halloween masks from the early sixties, Mountie bobble-head dolls, Reliable plastic coin banks, a barber's chair circa 1945, figurines of Marvel Comics heroes, a complete kid-size RCMP uniform framed behind glass, old high-school trophies refashioned by Seth as... (Globe and Mail)
Rear Window Movie (1954) Apr 12, 2009
The extraordinary in this case is "the big sleep," with the idle Jimmy Stewart catching glimpses of what he perceives to be the untimely elimination of salesman Raymond Burr's wife. Hitchcock, the grand master of suspense, builds the tension gradually, defining the main characters as they make their way to the movie's nerve-wracking conclusion. (Suite101.com)
Into the trenches Mar 28, 2009
Whether as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep or Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Bogie carried it off with hardboiled panache. Since then, the iconic garment has been the go-to coat of secret agents, superheroes and reporters who drank their scotch neat. (Globe and Mail)
Film series revisits Godard's work from the '60s Feb 26, 2009
Shot on sunny French streets standing in for America's seedy Atlantic City, it was inspired by the classic film noir "The Big Sleep," with Nelson as the female Humphrey Bogart. Karina's moody eyes smirk behind her mod bangs and thick black eyeliner as she works the case and the camera. (The Suffolk Journal, MA)
