Based on a novel by Sloan Wilson and directed by Nunnally Johnson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit follows the lead of The Best Years of Our Lives as it traces the trajectory of a troubled World War II vet while at the same time explicitly addressing the effects of Ptsd (referred to in the 50’s-approved term for uncomfortable mental health issues as “flashbacks”). Star Gregory Peck is surrounded by a powerhouse supporting cast including Jennifer Jones, Fredric March and Lee J. Cobb.
- 5/28/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Gregory Peck movies: Memorable miscasting in David O. Selznick’s Western Gregory Peck is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star today, August 15, 2013. TCM is currently showing Raoul Walsh’s good-looking but not too exciting Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), with Peck in the title role and Virginia Mayo as his leading lady. (See “Gregory Peck in ‘Duel in the Sun’: TCM movie schedule.”) (Photo: Gregory Peck ca. 1950.) Next in line is Zoltan Korda’s crime melodrama The Macomber Affair (1947), based on a story by Ernest Hemingway about a troubled married couple and their safari guide. This is another good-looking film — black-and-white cinematography by veteran Karl Struss, whose credits ranged from the 1920 Gloria Swanson melo Something to Think About to Charles Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. Unfortunately, the psychology, the romance, and some of the acting found in The Macomber Affair is — at best — superficial. Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck look great,...
- 8/16/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
From the quintessential American materialism of Disney to China's burgeoning effort to go green, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week.
1. "You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!" John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times Magazine
Related story on The Daily Beast: Tatum O'Neal on Dating Jacko, Her New Show on Own
A journey to the flip side of Disney.
2. "Can China Go Green?"Bill McKibben, National Geographic
No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy.
3. "Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns" James M. Lundberg, Slate
"Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed-with students raised on your sentimental, romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict."
4. "Darwin's City" Emma Maris, Nature
David Sloan Wilson is using the lens of evolution to understand life in the struggling city of Binghamton, New York.
1. "You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!" John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times Magazine
Related story on The Daily Beast: Tatum O'Neal on Dating Jacko, Her New Show on Own
A journey to the flip side of Disney.
2. "Can China Go Green?"Bill McKibben, National Geographic
No other country is investing so heavily in clean energy. But no other country burns as much coal to fuel its economy.
3. "Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns" James M. Lundberg, Slate
"Because of you, my Civil War lecture is always packed-with students raised on your sentimental, romantic, deeply misleading portrait of the conflict."
4. "Darwin's City" Emma Maris, Nature
David Sloan Wilson is using the lens of evolution to understand life in the struggling city of Binghamton, New York.
- 6/11/2011
- by David Sessions
- The Daily Beast
Mad Men's immaculate re-creation of another way of life reminds us vividly of our own
In a hilariously combative interview in the London Evening Standard last March, the best-selling author Lee Child argued the superiority of thrillers over any other kind of fiction. The problem with the literary novel was that it was too easy. He could run up a Martin Amis in three weeks. The only literary writer for whom he had any respect was Ian McEwan, because McEwan was at least trying to "put a suspense dynamic into an intelligent, intellectual novel". So-called serious writers "don't quite get it" because they're usually too fastidious to accept how simple the formula is. "You ask or imply a question at the beginning of a book and you absolutely self-consciously withhold the answer. It does feel cheap and meretricious but it absolutely works."
"Cheap and meretricious" may seem an unlikely...
In a hilariously combative interview in the London Evening Standard last March, the best-selling author Lee Child argued the superiority of thrillers over any other kind of fiction. The problem with the literary novel was that it was too easy. He could run up a Martin Amis in three weeks. The only literary writer for whom he had any respect was Ian McEwan, because McEwan was at least trying to "put a suspense dynamic into an intelligent, intellectual novel". So-called serious writers "don't quite get it" because they're usually too fastidious to accept how simple the formula is. "You ask or imply a question at the beginning of a book and you absolutely self-consciously withhold the answer. It does feel cheap and meretricious but it absolutely works."
"Cheap and meretricious" may seem an unlikely...
- 9/8/2010
- by David Hare
- The Guardian - Film News
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