The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)

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"I’ll never forget the first time I heard the Sinatra standard “My Way”, while sitting in the balcony of an art house in Denver, chain-smoking Benson & Hedges ultra-light menthols, staring nearly hypnotized by the sight of sexy Gary Oldman transforming himself into the swaggering embodiment of punk rock, tearing through both cover song and screen. Sid and Nancy (along with Howard Deutch’s Pretty In Pink which also came out in 1986, and Martha Coolidge’s 1983 Valley Girl) was nothing less than a revelation to this teenager with Aqua-netted hair, Doc Martins and ripped fishnets, because it actually portrayed “my people,” spoke to me in my own musical language. And my feeling of identification probably was not unlike that experienced by a certain segment of the movie-going public 31 years before Alex Cox paid tribute to the junkie romance of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, who witnessed another ta " [More]

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"The Man With the Golden Arm was the beginning of the end for the production code. The code wouldn't allow Preminger to make the film at all, so he made it anyway and United Artists released it with the code approval. It was a box-office sucess, so it proved the code was not neccessary to make money. The first two acts of this film are brillant, showing why people become addicted to drugs and why it's so hard to quit without cheesy speeches. These parts of the film as relevant then as they were today. But Preminger chooses to close the film with a last act that is melodramtic and redicoulus. Every plot element is perfecty resolved. It's his own fault to, as he changed the ending of the novel (which I have not read) to make it more uplifting. He just made it stupid. It stars Frank Sinatra as Frankie, who has just been released from a court-orderd drug rehabiltiation program to kick his herion addiction. While in rehab he discoverd that he had musical talent, and made the go ... " [More]

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"Star Wars may have the most famous opening title sequence in film history, but in terms of influence it’s got nothing on the work of Saul Bass. He’s the brilliant graphic designer who gave us the animated credits for Hitchcock’s Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho and Scorsese’s Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence and Goodfellas and most of Otto Preminger’s work, including Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder and [More]

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