Showing posts with label a place in the sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a place in the sun. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor and Film #139: Cleopatra

(Herbert Ritt's stark capture of Taylor after she had undergone surgery for a brain tumor.)

The recent passing of that movie icon known as Elizabeth Taylor got me musing on her place in my love of film. I never thought of her of one my favorite actresses per se but I definitely regarded her as one of my favorite cinematic faces. This chiefly arrives as such: throughout my life I think I've

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Side Orders #11

Just to break up The 9 Years a bit, here's another edition of my film clip series SIDE ORDERS. We start with the first film ever made -- and no, it's not Women Leaving A Factory by the Lumiere Brothers. That was the first film over 30 seconds, and was made in 1895. This is Thomas Edison's Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, filmed on Jan. 7, 1894. So that means we just passed the 115th