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 ...
Bud Cort and Sally Kellerman are coming to the Aero tonight for a Q&A between two CU Altman movies… Brewster McCloud and O.C. and Stiggs….never thought i’d get the chance to see the Gila Monster Car on the big screen….
BREWSTER MCCLOUD, 1970, Warner Bros., 105 min. Director Robert Altman’s achingly funny fantasy/satire on contemporary life features Bud Cort as budding man-child Brewster McCloud, living in a forgotten corner of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream to fly and is constantly making efforts to that end, all under the protective tutelage of guardian angel Sally Kellerman. However, life has a habit of intruding on Brewster’s dreams, both in pleasant (becoming smitten with Shelley Duvall) and not so pleasant ways (the influx of lawmen and bureaucrats who want to bring him down).
O.C. AND STIGGS, 1985, MGM, 109 min. Dir. Robert Altman. Two bored, mischievous teenagers (Daniel Jenkins and Neill Barry) torment a wealthy family headed by insurance mogul Paul Dooley in Robert Altman’s riff on the teen comedy genre. Ray Walston costars.
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.
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.