Topic: John Frankenheimer

DVD review: 'The Nickel Ride'/'99 and 44/100% dead'

0 View Larger Image . . . . . . . These 1974 20th Century Fox "neo noir" releases provide visions of the American underworld that move into deep...

TV noir

0 . The fall TV season has begun, and there are retro shows - "Pan Am," "The Playboy Club" - and groundbreaking noirish shows - "Breaking Bad,"...

Classic Racing Dramas Come to Blu-ray

Both "Grand Prix" and "Le Mans" put you in the driver's seat.Classic Racing Dramas Come to Blu-ray By Jim Bray TechnoFile.com If you're into car racing, the two greatest films ever made about the sport are, arguably, Grand ...

Veterans Day in S.F.

0 View Larger Image . Today is Veterans Day, and just a handful of places in San Francisco have military roots as deep as the Legion of Honor. The...

John Frankenheimer

John Frankenheimer, who died in 2002 , was a director who has been described as " John Frankenheimer Biography Frankenheimer was raised in Queens, New York, and at one point thought he wanted to be a professional tennis player. John Frankenheimer Biography Frankenheimer began ...

Movie reviews: 52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up (1986) Starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Kelly Preston , John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III, Vanity, Doug McClure, Lonny Chapman, Tom Byron, Hershel Savage, Phillip Bartko, Amber Lynn, Sharon Mitchell, Debra Satell, Robin Bronfman, Debra Berger, Blackie Dammett, Randy West, Cara ...
Tony Kaye was anxious to get started on the "Director's Draft" of Redliners. Since the script was loosely based on my own experiences, Tony felt I was too close to the material. Who in the hell did Tony Kaye think he ...

Seconds

Seconds, American psychological thriller film, released in 1966, that was directed by John Frankenheimer. He makes the momentous decision to leave behind his friends and family and embark on a new life with a new identity as artist Antiochus ("Tony") Wilson (Rock ...

Legend Witt leads Munich bid for Winter Olympics

No chair of an Olympic bid has probably ever been compared to Hollywood goddess Marilyn Monroe but ice skating legend Katarina Witt justifies that tag.The 44-year-old chair of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics became the first woman ice ...

Playboy star leads Munich bid for Winter Olympics

No chair of an Olympic bid has probably ever been compared to Hollywood goddess Marilyn Monroe but ice skating legend Katarina Witt justifies that tag.The 44-year-old chair of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics became the first woman ice ...