To all My Followers, Those I’m Following, and All Curious Visitors,
HAVE A HAPPY, SAFE, AND FUN EASTER!
And some Bugs Bunny as a treat
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March 21, 2024 • 11:16 pm 1
Gettin’ a Little Noirish on My B Day
Hello to all my Followers, Those I’m Following, and All Curious Visitors,
To cap off my Birthday today, I’m viewing the Blu Ray debut of the Japanese Film Noir I Am Waiting.
Now while Akira Kurosawa did his odes to the Noir genre with Drunken Angel and Stray Dog in the late 1940’s, it was film studio Nikkatsu in 1957 that would recreate the memorable tropes, characters, motifs, mood, and stories of the genre that spawn a decade long film craze in Japan.
The story is simple: an ex boxer turned restaurant owner saves a woman from committing suicide, and later learns the mobster ex-boyfriend she’s running from may be behind the disappearance of his brother. A solid example of the Noir style in a new age, and well worth checking out.
The Blu Ray from Radiance Films is Region B locked, so anyone curious to check the film out will need an All-Region/Multi-Region player to view it, or check out the DVD from the Criterion Collection set Nikkatsu Noir.
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December 25, 2023 • 7:10 pm 1
Tis the Season 2.0
To All My Followers, Those I’m Following, and All Curious Visitors,
Have a:
Merry Christmas
Happy Christmas
Buon Natale
Joyeux Noel
Good Yule
God Jul
Frohe Weihnachten
Vrolijk Kerstfeest
Feliz Navidad
Glaedelig Jul
Gledelig Jul
Meri Kurisumasu
Have fun, be safe, be happy
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December 24, 2023 • 10:42 pm 1
….. And Good Will To Men
To all My Followers, Those I’m Following, and All Curious Visitors
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!!!!
From Tony Nash, Movie Fan Man
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November 23, 2023 • 6:04 pm 3
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF TOM TURKEY
from Tony Nash
To All My Followers, Those I’m Following, and All Curious Vistors,
Have a Happy, Safe, and Fun Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!
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October 31, 2023 • 11:03 am 1
TIS THE TIME FOR SEASON’S SCARINGS
To all My Followers, Those I’m Following, and All Curious Visitors,
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Hope you all have a safe and fun time today.
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July 18, 2023 • 1:35 pm 4
Support the SAG & WGA
by Tony Nash
Hello to my Followers, those I’m Following, and all Curious Visitors,
Experience Film just did an excellent post on the recent strike started by the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/53485019/posts/4810323145
I highly encourage the WordPress Film Community to stand with the SAG and WGA for their right to be creative and expressive in their art form(s), and to not let the Hollywood big shots take anything away from them. Let’s keep the art of acting and writing alive for many generations to come.
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June 30, 2023 • 11:29 am 1
Viva Delon, Belmondo, & Arrow Video!!!
From Tony Nash
Arrow Video just announced its September lineup and the one title that excited me the most was the US home media premiere of the French Gangster Thriller Borsalino starring the titans of Cinema Francais Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, where they play 1920’s era gangsters whose uneasy partnership is put to the test by their dual lust for power and the love of a woman.
I nearly imported the French Blu Ray of this a while back as it was English subtitle friendly, but I’m so glad I held off now as I get to add this glorious release from Arrow in the coming months. Bravo Arrow Video!!
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May 17, 2023 • 1:48 pm 2
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
From Tony Nash,
Hello to all my Followers, those I’m Following, and All Curious Visitors,
My family’s laptop is on its last legs and has limited keyboard functions, so for the next couple of weeks my WordPress time will be sporadic as while I can use my iPhone just fine for it, misspellings are too frequent on the keyboard and I want to give any posts I enjoy and write the best possible feedback/input I can.
We’re looking into a new laptop right now, so just bear with me for a couple weeks. Thanks to everyone for continued support.
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March 21, 2023 • 12:11 pm 7
Celebrities I Share My B Day With
by Tony Nash
(All Opinions are of the Author Alone)
First off, I gotta thank The Classic Movie Muse https://theclassicmoviemuse.com/ for the inspiration for this post. I had mentioned in her announcement for her annual Kim Novak Blog-a-Thon that Miss Novak and my Dad shared February 13th as a birthday and asked me of I shared my D Day with any celebrities. At first I was planning on merely answering her question in a response comment, but then realized a brief post on actors and actressesI share my B Day with would be even better. And with March being my Birthday month, now’s the perfect time.
To start off, my Birthday is March 21st, though I was slated to arrive in April in the late part of 1980’s. Surprisingly, quite a few famous folks share March 21st as their B Day too.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Before I get to the juicy meat of this post, I wanted to mention four non actors/actresses who I share my B Day with. The earliest person I could find who shares March 21st with me is the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music is still enjoyed by lovers of the classics. A nice surprise for me was learning Mr. Broadway himself “Flo” Ziegfeld is a March 21st baby, a name still heralded among musical lovers. Filmmaker Russ Meyer, dubbed the ‘Fellini of Nudes’ was another surprise March 21st birthday boy. And finally, the original independent film producer Mark Hellinger, responsible for Burt Lancaster’s quick rise to fame, rounds out the honorable mentions.
Now for the good stuff
TIMOTHY DALTON
The most underrated James Bond of them all, Mr. Dalton mixes being suave, cool, sometimes devious/sinister and gentlemanly into a fine homogenous concoction.
FRANCOISE DORLEAC
Catherine Deneuve’s equally talented older sister, who was taken from this world too early in a car crash. Best remembered for acting alongside her sister in Jacques Demy’s ode to Hollywood Musicals Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort).
GARY OLDMAN
One of today’s best actors, stellar at a wide variety of parts like Sid Vicious, Sirius Black, and Winston Churchill.
MATTHEW BRODERICK
Bueller, Ferris Bueller. ‘Nuff said.
VIRGINIA WEILDER
Katherine Hepburn’s kid sister from The Philadelphia Story, she was great in every scene she was in.
JAMES COCO
A somewhat forgotten character who was great in both comedy and drama. Best immortalized immortalized in a The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode when a demon said he went made after 15 minutes in the Glutton section of Hell.
SABRINA LE BEAUF
Best remembered as Cliff Huxtable’s oldest daughter Sondra on disgraced icon Bill Cosby’s show.
There’s quite a few other celebrities I share my B Day with, but I wanted to highlight my favorites. Hope you enjoyed the post, and thanks again to The Classic Movie Muse for the inspiration.
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