http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club Scott Eyman blogs about books, movies, TV shows and more. en-us scott_eyman@pbpost.com 2009-05-19T14:23:18-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/05/19/cinevent_in_columbus_and_the_p.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club As I pack my bags for Cinevent in Columbus, I realize with a sinking heart that I’ve been doing this for slightly more than 40 years. With all due respect for my friend John McElwee - whose Greenbriar Picture Shows... Scott Eyman 12892403@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-05-19T14:23:18-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/05/13/souls_for_sale_and_the_two_kin.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club “Souls for Sale” starts out as one kind of movie and shape-shifts to another kind. At first, it seems we’re in for one of those fond moviemakers-are-just-like-you-and-me-only richer movies that Hollywood tosses up from time to time: David O. Selznick’s... Scott Eyman 12782803@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-05-13T14:32:46-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/05/11/slackers_in_the_house_kate_hud.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club There’s not a lot to say about “Bride Wars,” which I watched over the weekend. I used to think I’d watch anything with Anne Hathaway, but I’m now reconsidering. “Bride Wars” did get me thinking about a certain type of... Scott Eyman 12730303@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-05-11T14:17:22-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/05/05/discovering_beatrice_lillie.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club I was in the mood for a silent movie last night - a mood that probably strikes more than is entirely healthy - so I popped in “Exit Smiling,” a lovely little MGM picture from 1926 that Warnerarchive.com has put... Scott Eyman 12611203@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-05-05T13:12:19-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/29/remembering_jack_cardiff.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club The obituaries for Jack Cardiff correctly noted that he was both the kindest of men and the greatest of cameramen, specifically the greatest of Technicolor cameramen. (I only interviewed him once, for my John Ford book, but he was helpful... Scott Eyman 12491103@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-29T15:08:30-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/28/a_song_is_born_tediously_remak.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club I can only assume that in 1948 Howard Hawks was drowning under some particularly dire gambling debts. Nothing else would explain why he would have signed on to direct a remake of a movie he had directed perfectly well only... Scott Eyman 12462203@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-28T14:20:22-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/23/peter_bogdanovich_on_nickelode.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club It’s always good to catch up with Peter Bogdanovich, and the new DVD release of “Nickelodeon” was no exception. At the time the film was released, the slapstick tone of the film’s first half struck me as forced, but I... Scott Eyman 12370603@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-23T14:24:13-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/21/the_red_lily_from_warnerarchiv.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club “The Red Lily” is one of the more obscure titles being offered by warnerarchive.com, but it’s also one of the most surprising. Surprising because it’s a resolute ride down the path of social and personal degradation up until a last... Scott Eyman 12320303@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-21T15:03:09-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/16/telling_the_world_about_tell_n.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club It’s true that “Tell No One,” has a dandy set-up: a doctor’s wife was murdered eight years before. Her body was identified by her father, autopsied, and the husband cleared of the crime for which no one was ever prosecuted.... Scott Eyman 12227003@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-16T15:05:27-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/15/remembering_richard_de_mille.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club Richard deMille liked to hide behind the facade of a slightly chilly academic, but it was a pose. Despite our very different generations and politics, I always found him the most endearing of men, always impeccably turned out in a... Scott Eyman 12200203@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-15T13:54:34-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/13/flicker_alleys_the_yankee_clip.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club In some ways “The Yankee Clipper” is a generic silent action movie - stalwart hero (William Boyd), very bad bad guy (Walter Long) and a beautiful leading lady without a lot to do (Elinor Fair.) But don’t condescend - this... Scott Eyman 12156303@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-13T14:02:52-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/08/a_restoration_of_the_alamo_pai.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club The news that the archivist Robert Harris, whose restorations have ranged from the superb (“Lawrence of Arabia”) to the dubious (“Vertigo”) is soliciting public funds to restore John Wayne’s “The Alamo” is, as Arte Johnson would say, “verrrrrry interesting.” Now,... Scott Eyman 12080103@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-08T14:54:56-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/06/the_future_of_julia_roberts.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club I didn’t have much to think about during “Duplicity,” a caper movie by people who deluded themselves into thinking they were too high-toned to make a caper movie, so I started thinking about what Julia Roberts should do about her... Scott Eyman 12031903@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-06T15:06:45-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/02/remembering_maurice_jarre.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club Here’s why I love my job(s). About five years ago, I was on the phone with Maurice Jarre. We were talking about his career and the subject of David Lean came up, as it was bound to. He talked about... Scott Eyman 11966803@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-02T16:03:29-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/entries/2009/04/01/steven_bach_rip.html?cxntfid=blogs_culture_club I met Steven Bach five years ago, during a seminar in Salzburg. We knew each other because we’d talked on the phone a few times, about one of his books, or one of mine. He was particularly helpful and insightful... Scott Eyman 11934003@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/culture/ 2009-04-01T10:20:26-05:00