Samuel Fuller

LACMA film series celebrates California noir

2012-05-17 16:38:15

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PASSINGS: Sid Melton, Leonard Stone, Liz Anderson, Thomas McNeeley Jr., George Rountree

2011-11-04 00:00:00

Sid Melton Character actor in dozens of TV, film projects Sid Melton, 94, a character actor perhaps best known for his roles in the hit television shows "Green Acres" and "The Danny Thomas Show," died of pneumonia Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph...

Book Review: 'Warning Shadows' by Gary Giddins

2010-05-23 00:00:00

Warning Shadows Home Alone With Classic Cinema Gary Giddins W.W. Norton: 416 pp., $18.95 Gary Giddins is well known for his writing about music — he was a Village Voice jazz columnist for three decades, and his books, among them the biography...

John H. Lauten dies at 96; Army captain helped plan invasion of Normandy

2010-04-06 00:00:00

John H. Lauten, a lawyer who helped plan the invasion of Normandy as an Army captain during World War II and later became the first non-engineer to oversee the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, has died. He was 96. Lauten died of...

Making sense of Hollywood -- in print

2008-04-16 14:44:15

April 17, 2008 For the last several years, Richard Schickel has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, writing primarily about books on film. His new book, "Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies," is a collection of many of...

The year in home entertainment

2007-12-16 00:00:00

In terms of home entertainment, viewers had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this year. Among 2007's best releases were restored old favorites and newly discovered rarities, television classics past and present, and at the top of the heap, the...

'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' a luxe example of '50s cinema

2012-09-27 13:42:00

The teaming of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" was a combination so potent it can only be described with an inappropriately long wolf whistle, so much so that even a fussbudget such as New York Times film critic Bosley...

No matter how you look at it, it's still the news

2012-08-04 15:32:00

I love the classic movie channel for the personal discoveries that it allows a movie fan. Now and then, I’ll see a film I had only vaguely heard about. That was the case recently, when I watched the 1952 movie “Park Row” about...

Andy Whitfield and Cliff Robertson to receive TV salutes

2011-09-17 16:40:26

When it's no fun to get spoiled

2010-02-26 12:46:14

New on DVD

2007-08-14 00:00:00

PICK OF THE WEEK: THE LOOKOUT Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode in "The Lookout" (Allen Fraser/Miramax) Unquestionably the most successful movie to hit DVD this week is "Wild Hogs," the comedy that proved John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, Tim...

'Pierrot le Fou'

2007-08-10 00:00:00

Jean-Luc Godard's films have always reflected the times in which they were made with their acute, even startling ability to evoke self-recognition, yet so rich and far-ranging are their concerns that it is hardly surprising they seem timeless. Such is the...

Samantha Fuller, right, is making a documentary about her father, independent director Samuel Fuller, left. She's funding the film, "A Fuller Life," via Kickstarter. Fuller found inspiration from the "shack," a cranny in her father's house in the Hollywood Hills, where he worked on writing movies.

2012-09-21 13:25:31

Samuel Fuller's last name is carved into a rifle in his "shack," where he worked on writing his movies.

2012-09-21 13:11:05

"The Samuel Fuller Film Collection" ( Sony , $79.95), an eclectic tribute to American cinema's great tabloid poet, brings together seven Columbia movies that Fuller directed or co-wrote, among them "The Crimson Kimono" (1959), still one of Hollywood's most complex depictions of an interracial

2009-12-17 14:03:30