Today’s scene that I love comes from 1959’s Ben-Hur. The chariot race was one of the great action sequences of its era and its influence is still felt to this day. Rumor has it that Mario Bava was among the crew that helped to shoot the chariot race. Personally, I choose to believe that even if I can’t prove it!
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking.
Today is not just Christmas! It is also Humphrey Bogart’s birthday! Bogart was born 126 years ago, today! And that means that it’s time for….
4 Shots From 4 Films
Dead End (1937, dir by William Wyler)
Casablanca (1943, dir by Michael Curtiz)
The Big Sleep (1946, dir by Howard Hawks)
The African Queen (1951, dir by John Huston)
4 Shots from 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots from 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
4 Shots From 4 Biblical Epics
David and Bathsheba (1951, dir by Henry King. DP: Leon Shamroy)
The Ten Commandments (1956, dir by Cecil B. DeMille, DP: Lloyd Griggs)
Ben-Hur (1959, dir by William Wyler, DP: Robert Surtees)
The Bible (1966, dir by John Huston, DP: Giuseppe Rotunno)
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, let’s celebrate the year 1959! It’s time for….
4 Shots From 4 1959 films
The 400 Blows (1959, dir by François Truffaut, DP: Henri Decae)
Ben-Hur (1959, dir by William Wyler, DP: Robert Surtees)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957, dir by Edward D. Wood, Jr., DP: William C. Thompson)
North by Northwest (1959, dir by Alfred Hitchcock, DP: Robert Burks)
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films. To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 1950s! Here are….
4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1950s
All About Eve (1950, dir by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, DP: Milton R. Krassner)
The Greatest Show On Earth (1952, dir by Cecil B. Demille, DP: George Barnes)
On The Waterfront (1954, dir by Elia Kazan, DP: Boris Kaufman)
Ben-Hur (1959, dir by William Wyler, DP: Robert Surtees)
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films. To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 1940s! Here are….
4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1940s
Rebecca (1940, dir by Alfred Hitchcock, DP: George Barnes)
Casablanca (1942, dir by Michael Curtiz, DP: Arthur Edeson)
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946, dir by William Wyler, DP: Gregg Toland)
Hamlet (1948, dir by Laurence Olivier, DP: Desmond Dickinson)
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today would have been the 93rd birthday of one of my favorite actresses, the wonderful Audrey Hepburn!
We’re all Audrey Hepburn fans here at the Shattered Lens. How could we not be? Long before she made her film debut, Audrey Hepburn literally risked her life as a part of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. After she retired for regularly appearing in the movies, she devoted herself to humanitarian causes and served as a UNICEF ambassador. She was one of the greats and, for that reason, we honor Audrey Hepburn today with….
4 Shots From 4 Audrey Hepburn Films
Roman Holiday (1953, dir by William Wyler, DP: Henri Alaken and Franz Planer)
Sabrina (1954, dir by Billy Wilder, DP: Charles Lang)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, dir by Blake Edwards, DP: Franz Planer)
Two For The Road (1967, dir by Stanley Donen, DP: Christopher Challis)
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking.
Today is not just Christmas! It is also Humphrey Bogart’s birthday! Bogart was born 121 years ago, today! And that means that it’s time for….
4 Shots From 4 Films
Dead End (1937, dir by William Wyler)
Casablanca (1943, dir by Michael Curtiz)
The Big Sleep (1946, dir by Howard Hawks)
The African Queen (1951, dir by John Huston)
Film noir buffs usually point to 1940’s STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR as the first of the genre. Others cite 1941’s THE MALTESE FALCON as the film that launched the movement. But a case could certainly be made for William Wyler’s THE LETTER, released three months after STRANGER, but containing all the elements of what would be come to called film noir by future movie buffs. THE LETTER also features a bravura performance by Miss Bette Davis , who was born on this date in 1905, as one hell of a femme fatale.
The movie starts off with a bang (literally) as Bette’s character Leslie Crosbie emerges from her Malaysian plantation home pumping six slugs into Geoff Hammond under a moonlit night sky. The native workers are sent to fetch Leslie’s husband, rubber plantation supervisor Robert, from the fields. He brings along their attorney Howard Joyce, and it’s a…
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It’s hard to believe that, except for two films in which he cameoed, I haven’t covered any movies starring my namesake, Gary Cooper . Nor have I written anything about any of major Hollywood director William Wyler’s works. So let’s kill two birds with one stone and take a look at 1940’s THE WESTERNER, one of the best Westerns ever. It’s a highly fictionalized account of the life and times of Judge Roy Bean (1825-1903), played by Walter Brennan in his third and final Oscar-winning role, with Cooper as a drifter at odds with “The Law West of the Pecos”.
That “law” is Bean, who sides with the open range cattlemen against the homesteaders who’ve moved into the area. Into the town of Vinagaroon rides Coop as Cole Harden on his way to California. Unfortunately for Cole, he rides in on a horse stolen from one of Bean’s cronies, and…
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