William “Bill” Hickman (25 January 1921 – 24 February 1986) was a stunt driver/actor from the 1950s through to the late 1970s. Hickman played a major role in terms of development and execution in three of the greatest movie car chase sequences of all time.
Saturday, January 22 · 7:30pm Double Feature: 40th Anniversary! THE FRENCH CONNECTION, 1971, 20th Century Fox, 104 min. Arguably the greatest American crime film ever made. Gene Hackman stars as Detective Popeye Doyle, who’s muscling minor hoods in NYC (the "You ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" scene is still a classic) when he catches the ...
Larry Karaszewski Presents: Double Feature: THE LADY IN RED, 1979, New World Pictures, 93 min. The "lady in red" of the title (Pamela Sue Martin) is thrust into a life on the run thanks to her relationship with notorious gangster John Dillinger (Robert Conrad) in this energetic Roger Corman production. A sharp screenplay ...
Robert Culp (1930-2010)
I was always going to do a big article on Robert. Anyone who knows me, knows that. Anyone who’s ever been to the screening room knows that….
Robert wasn’t Criminally Unknown, as an actor, but as a writer and director that’s just what he was. He wrote seven episodes of I SPY, the seven BEST episodes. Any I SPY event i held was always going to start out with “THE LOSER”, hit “MAGIC MIRROR” and end with “HOME TO JUDGEMENT”… in my opinion the best hour of television ever.
Great article by Lou Lumenick in the New York Post today on Tom Schiller’s Nothing Lasts Forever! My REAL Nothing Lasts Forever article is a few days away, this is just a quick note to let everyone know that tickets are finally on sale for the April 1st screening at the Egyptian. Tom is also bringing a bunch of his 70’s SNL shorts! It’s going to be an amazing night. Get your tickets now at Fandango!
Watching the film again this afternoon, it’s just beautiful……..magical….. and totally unique…. it’s no wonder Perry kept running out of money … I’m not even sure it’s a film…. it will sit alongside Playtime, Nashville, Husbands and The Rubber Gun as another impossible movie….another black magic deal with the devil, that simply shouldn’t exist… but thanks to David Garonzik it does, and thanks to the American Cinematheque you can see it on the big screen tomorrow :) It’s been a long strange road leading up to tomorrows west coast premiere, you’d have to be crazy to be anywhere else.
March 12-17 HAUSU!! Exclusive Los Angeles run of a NEW 35mm Print at the New Beverly.
“MUST-SEE-NOW – Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone – no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to House.”, Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Larry Karaszewski Presents: Buck Henry In Person!
Sunday March 14th 2010 at 7:30pm at the Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
TAKING OFF, 1971, Universal, 93 min. Director Milos Forman’s first American film is a warm and hilariously subversive comedy about parents trying to cope with their runaway children. The focus is on bewildered Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin as they try to deal with daughter Linnea Heacock’s flight to Greenwich Village hippie life – and end up expanding their consciousness as much as she does!
CATCH-22, 1970, Paramount Pictures, 122 min. Dir. Mike Nichols. After their triumphant collaboration on THE GRADUATE, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry reunited for this adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical WWII novel. The all-star cast includes Alan Arkin, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight, Orson Welles and Henry himself.
Discussion in between films with Buck Henry!
Curtis Harrington’s rarely seen masterpiece GAMES screens tonight at the Aero in Santa Monica on the back end of a Katherine Ross double feature.
A 15 year labor of love for Sage Stallone, Bob Murawski and Grindhouse Releasing, GONE WITH THE POPE, Duke Mitchell’s long lost follow up to MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE, premieres tonight, March 12th 2010 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Q&A between films with the cast and crew of GONE WITH THE POPE.