July 2009 Archives

Review: Revanche

By Eleanor Ringel Cater on July 23, 2009 10:34 AM | No Comments

A nominee for best foreign language film at last winter's Academy Awards, the strangely eloquent Austrian film Revanche (translation: Revenge) is a tale of two couples whose paths cross in a tragically unexpected way.

Alex (Johannes Krisch), a security guard of sorts at a Viennese brothel, falls for one of the working girls, a Ukrainian prostitute named Tamara (Irina Potapenko). She falls back. The problem: the power-brokers who run the operation don't like the, er, staff to date.

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A trip to the moon

By Eleanor Ringel Cater on July 19, 2009 11:02 AM | No Comments
icon_trip_to_the_moon.jpgCharlie Chaplin died Christmas Day.

So it makes an odd kind of sense that Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," would die during the 40th Anniversary weekend of the moon landing in 1969. After all, his was the voice that guided us through that epic-- though now, almost quaint -- adventure.

One of the earliest films ever made was the Melies brothers, "A Trip to the Moon," in which a rocket socked a pie-like Man in the Moon right in the eye.
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Karl Malden

By Eleanor Ringel Cater on July 2, 2009 6:24 PM | 4 Comments
icon_malden.jpgThe death of Karl Malden may not amount to a hill of beans....

Wait. wrong classic movie.

THE classic movie, with which Malden would forever be associated with throughout his long career was "A Streetcar named Desire," for which he won an Academy Award (for best supporting actor) for recreating the role of Mitch, Blanche's unsuitable gentleman suitor in the original Broadway production.
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Gene Wilder

By Eleanor Ringel Cater on July 1, 2009 10:14 AM | 2 Comments
icon_wilder.jpgI recently had the great honor to interview Gene Wilder. He was in Atlanta to visit his wife, Karen Webb's, grown up children who had moved South to work for Turner. 

Wilder is an original---quite possibly the most unique comic actor of his time. He was pummeled by Zero Mostel in "The Producers," kidnapped by Warren Beatty in "Bonnie and Clyde," rode West (in Rabbinical whiskers) with Harrison For in "The Frisco Kid," played Donald Sutherland's mismatched twin in "Start the Revolution Without Me" (a great 4th of July choice even if it is about the French Revolution) and brought Peter Boyle to life in "Young Frankenstein.
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