Category: Crime

Actors, Actresses, Crime, Gene Tierney, Horror, Movie Reviews, Romance, TCM, Thrillers, Vincent Price

VINCENT PRICE & GENE TIERNEY: A DOOMED ROMANCE

This post was part of my month-long celebration of Vincent Price–TCM’s October Star of the Month in 2013. Throughout the course of Vincent Price’s long career, he worked with some of my favorite actresses such as Barbara Steele, Diana Rigg, Jennifer Jones and Linda Hayden. But if I had to single out Price’s most important costar I would point to the incomparable Gene Tierney. Tierney appeared … Continue reading VINCENT PRICE & GENE TIERNEY: A DOOMED ROMANCE

Kimberly Lindbergs
American Cinema, Crime, Criterion, Japanese Cinema, Japanese New Wave, Masahiro Shinoda, Movie Reviews, Robert Wise, TCM

Plucking the Petals of Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower (1964)

  “Tokyo… After three long years. It makes my head spin. Just look at it. Why so many people crammed into tiny cage-like boxes? People… Such strange animals. What keeps them all going? They look like they’re half dead. Making a frantic pretense of being alive. What was so wrong about killing one of these stupid animals? I served three years… This is my territory… … Continue reading Plucking the Petals of Masahiro Shinoda’s Pale Flower (1964)

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Actors, Alain Delon, Crime, FilmStruck, French Cinema, Movie Reviews

CRIME & PUNISHMENT: LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970)

August 10, 2017: FilmStruck is currently streaming 11 films featuring Alain Delon as part of their “Icons: Alain Delon” theme and for the next 4 weeks I’ll be spotlighting a few of my favorite titles in this collection. To learn more about the French actor please see a previous post I wrote in 2010 to celebrate Delon’s 75th birthday titled, “The Ice-Cold Angel turns 75.” You might also … Continue reading CRIME & PUNISHMENT: LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970)

Kimberly Lindbergs
Actors, Alain Delon, Crime, FilmStruck, French Cinema, Movie Reviews

HONOR AMONG THIEVES: FAREWELL, FRIEND (1968)

In the tradition of classic French heist films such as Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), Rififi (1955) and Bob le flambeur (1956), Farewell, Friend (aka Honor Among Thieves, 1968) takes viewers on a treacherous adventure where femme fatales lurk around every shadowy corner and crime rarely pays. But that doesn’t stop some fortune hunters from risking everything to make a quick buck or in this case, repay a debt to a dead man. In Farewell, … Continue reading HONOR AMONG THIEVES: FAREWELL, FRIEND (1968)

Kimberly Lindbergs
Crime, FilmStruck, Hong Kong Cinema, Movie Reviews

Triad Theater: THE MISSION (1999)

Shakespearean in its scope and operatic in its execution, THE MISSION (‘99) remains one of the most taut, compelling and superbly composed films made in Hong Kong during the 1990s. This sinewy thriller helped cement Johnnie To’s reputation as one of today’s most accomplished action directors and you can currently catch it streaming on FilmStruck as part of a double feature with To’s VENGEANCE (2009). … Continue reading Triad Theater: THE MISSION (1999)

Kimberly Lindbergs
Basil Dearden, British Cinema, Crime, FilmStruck, Movie Reviews

CRIME & PASSION: POOL OF LONDON (1951)

I, along with some of my fellow FilmStruck colleagues, have been modestly building a case for the reassessment of Basil Dearden’s career during the past year by spotlighting many of his films including Sapphire (1959), The League of Gentlemen (1960), Victim (1961), All Night Long (1963), Frieda(1947), The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) and The Captive Heart (1946). Despite the fact that the British director has been the subject of a Criterion DVD box set, Dearden … Continue reading CRIME & PASSION: POOL OF LONDON (1951)

Kimberly Lindbergs
Actors, Actresses, Albert Finney, Animation, Boris Karloff, British Cinema, British New Wave, Crime, Horror, Italian Cinema, Japanese Cinema, Joseph Losey, Mia Farrow, Monica Vitti, Movie Reviews, Roman Polanski, Thrillers, Vincent Price

Film Writing Nov. 2016 – April 2017

It’s been awhile. Work obligations, as well as personal projects and other responsibilities, have taken precedence over updating my blogs. Of course, you can always find me on my Tumblr as well as Twitter & Facebook. Before I let another month get away, I thought I’d finally share an update to the film writing I’ve done for the last 6 months. I’ve broken topics up … Continue reading Film Writing Nov. 2016 – April 2017

Kimberly Lindbergs
Actors, Actresses, American Cinema, Blaxploitation, British Cinema, Crime, Favorite Films 2015, Horror, Movie Reviews, Spies & Secret Agents, Westerns

Jan. & Feb. 2016 at TCM’s Movie Morlocks

Links to some of the writing I did for TCM’s Movie Morlocks blog in Jan. & Feb. Jan. 7: William Cameron Menzies: Chandu the Magician (1932) Excerpt: “In recent weeks, you might have heard about the upcoming Doctor Strange film currently scheduled for release in November of 2016. The news caught my attention because I’ve always liked the comic book character and the cast, which … Continue reading Jan. & Feb. 2016 at TCM’s Movie Morlocks

Kimberly Lindbergs
Alfred Hitchcock, American Cinema, Ann-Margret, Books, British Cinema, Comic Books, Crime, Frankenstein, Hammer Horror, Horror, Klaus Kinski, Michael Caine, Orson Welles, Science Fiction, Soundtracks, TCM, Westerns

6 Months of Film Writing

I’m afraid I’ve been neglecting Cinebeats again but I’ve been busy with various personal projects and obligations. I’ve also recently started writing for Publishers Weekly but I thought I’d finally update with some highlights from TCM’s Movie Morlocks. Here’s some of the more interesting (in my estimation) film related writing & entertaining babble I’ve produced in the last 6 months. You might notice that the … Continue reading 6 Months of Film Writing

Kimberly Lindbergs
Crime, Criterion, Japanese Cinema, Japanese New Wave, Movie Reviews, Roger Corman, Seijun Suzuki

SEIJUN SUZUKI’S EVERYTHING GOES WRONG (1960)

I recently signed up for a temporary “Plus” account with Hulu.com so I could sample some of the hard-to-see Japanese films Criterion has made available there. According to Criterion their partnership with Hulu “gives viewers a chance to explore our library, sample films they might want to buy, discover films they never knew they would want, and see films so rare that they would never see the … Continue reading SEIJUN SUZUKI’S EVERYTHING GOES WRONG (1960)

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