Welcome to the West, long after the frontier has closed. Allison Anders’ marvelous drama of a three-girl family is a big step for indie cinema, a highly entertaining examination of women’s aspirations and frustrations out on the non-glamorous working class fringe. Writer-director Anders wastes no time with a terrific cast — Brooke Adams, Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk’s family lacks a father, and ‘men who walk’ becomes the central issue in their lives. Filmed in a gloriously believable New Mexico desert.
Gas, Food Lodging
Blu-ray
Arrow Academy USA
1992 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date November 13, 2018 / Available from Arrow Academy 34.95
Starring: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury, Jacob Varga, Donovan Leitch, Chris Mulkey, Laurie O’Brien, Julie Condra, Adam Biesk, Leigh Hamilton, J. Mascis, Tiffany Anders, Sissy Boyd, Jeffrey McDonald, Nina Belanger, Carlos Rivas.
Cinematography: Dean Lent
Film Editor: Tracy Granger
Original Music: J.
Gas, Food Lodging
Blu-ray
Arrow Academy USA
1992 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 101 min. / Street Date November 13, 2018 / Available from Arrow Academy 34.95
Starring: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper, David Lansbury, Jacob Varga, Donovan Leitch, Chris Mulkey, Laurie O’Brien, Julie Condra, Adam Biesk, Leigh Hamilton, J. Mascis, Tiffany Anders, Sissy Boyd, Jeffrey McDonald, Nina Belanger, Carlos Rivas.
Cinematography: Dean Lent
Film Editor: Tracy Granger
Original Music: J.
- 11/13/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Art imitates life “Ray & Liz,” the autobiographical debut feature by Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham; that’s nothing new. But it’s the way art imitates, reflects and recomposes other art — specifically, Billingham’s much-discussed photography — that lends complex layers of memoir and mimesis to this singular spin on the British kitchen-sink drama, preserving both the director’s childhood and his creative evolution in gorgeous, grainy amber. Collating multiple visual and thematic preoccupations from the director’s fine-art oeuvre (notably his bleakly intimate portraiture of his working-class parents) and filtering them through the ingenious compositional eye of d.p. Daniel Landin, “Ray & Liz” is formally arresting and rigorous, though not at the expense of its direct emotional force. Commercially, this Locarno competition entry is an uncompromisingly hard sell, though festival bookings will come thick and fast.
Familiarity with Billingham’s photographic output is by no means vital to an appreciation of “Ray & Liz,...
Familiarity with Billingham’s photographic output is by no means vital to an appreciation of “Ray & Liz,...
- 8/7/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Jean Simmons, the English actress known primarily for her role alongside Marlon Brando in the 1955 musical Guys and Dolls, has recently passed away. She was 80 years old, and her death has been attributed to lung cancer. Simmons made her film debut when she was 14 years old, with the British production of Give Us the Moon. Two years later, she landed the role of Estella in 1946's Great Expectations. A number of films led her to her next big role in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet in 1948, for which she won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. The actress then moved from Britain to Hollywood in 1950, where she garnered another Oscar nomination for best actress for The Happy Ending in 1969, and ended up winning an Emmy Award for The Thorn Birds, a 1980s miniseries. "Simmons is one of the most quietly commanding actresses Hollywood has ever trashed," film critic Pauline Kael...
- 1/27/2010
- by Crews
- FilmJunk
Philip French pays tribute to the Rank Organisation starlet who went on to become one of Hollywood's most luminous actresses
Jean Simmons, who has died at the age of 80 of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, was among the finest, most beautiful British movie actresses of the postwar years. She was one of only two from that great 1940s flourishing of our native industry under J Arthur Rank to become a major star in Hollywood; the other was Deborah Kerr, with whom she twice appeared.
Born in 1929, the daughter of a gym teacher who had represented Britain in the 1912 Olympics, she grew up in Cricklewood, north London, of which she once disloyally remarked: "No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there." She got a deal of work as a child actress, without becoming a child star (her most memorable early appearance is singing at a forces concert...
Jean Simmons, who has died at the age of 80 of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, was among the finest, most beautiful British movie actresses of the postwar years. She was one of only two from that great 1940s flourishing of our native industry under J Arthur Rank to become a major star in Hollywood; the other was Deborah Kerr, with whom she twice appeared.
Born in 1929, the daughter of a gym teacher who had represented Britain in the 1912 Olympics, she grew up in Cricklewood, north London, of which she once disloyally remarked: "No Cricklewood girl would ever admit to being from there." She got a deal of work as a child actress, without becoming a child star (her most memorable early appearance is singing at a forces concert...
- 1/23/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
British Actress Jean Simmons passed away on Friday evening at her home in Santa Monica, CA from lung cancer. She was 80 (Jan. 31, 1929- Jan. 22, 2010). While her definitive acting roles are in Hamlet (Ophelia), Elmer Gantry (Sister Sharon Falconer), and Guys And Dolls (Sister Sarah Brown), my personal favorites were her parts in Hollywood’s Swords and Sandals epics of old.
As Varinia in Spartacus:
and Diana in The Robe:
Forever the working actress, Miss Simmons provided the voices in such animated films as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Council Member), Hayao Miyazakis’ Howl’S Moving Castle (Grandma Sophie), and 2005’s Thru The Moebius Strip (Shepway). She saw two Academy Award nominations in Lead and Supporting, awarded 2 Golden Globes, and won an Emmy for her portrayal of stoic matriarch Fiona ‘Fee’ Cleary, in The Thorn Birds. In 2003, Miss Simmons received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her services to drama.
As Varinia in Spartacus:
and Diana in The Robe:
Forever the working actress, Miss Simmons provided the voices in such animated films as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Council Member), Hayao Miyazakis’ Howl’S Moving Castle (Grandma Sophie), and 2005’s Thru The Moebius Strip (Shepway). She saw two Academy Award nominations in Lead and Supporting, awarded 2 Golden Globes, and won an Emmy for her portrayal of stoic matriarch Fiona ‘Fee’ Cleary, in The Thorn Birds. In 2003, Miss Simmons received the OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her services to drama.
- 1/23/2010
- by Michelle
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jean Simmons, the British-born beauty who won an Emmy for The Thorn Birds and was nominated for two Oscars (The Happy Ending and Hamlet) has died of lung cancer at her Santa Monica home at the age of 80. An actress of range with diverse talents, she appeared in dozens of films, including cult fave Black Narcissus, musicals like Guys and Dolls (with Marlon Brando in the clip above) and dramas such as Elmer Gantry, The Robe and Spartacus. She was married twice, first to actor Stewart Granger and later to director Richard Brooks, and is survived by daughters Tracy Granger and Kate Brooks. ________ Tell us what you're looking for in entertainment and celebrity news. Complete this survey and you ...
- 1/23/2010
- E! Online
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