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Charlton Heston was 84
Movie City Indie —
That was a face. [Obit.] Madly wrote Michael Mourlet, then co-editor of Cahiers du Cinema, in May 1960 in one of the finest tatters of hyperbole in the film-crit canon (as recounted in J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's "Midnight Movies"): "Charlton Heston is an axiom. By himself ...
R.I.P. Charlton Heston
Dave's Blog About Movies and Such —
Goddamn. Three in a row. Widmark, then Dassin, and now Heston. Although I am a fan of all of their works, I grew up watching most of Heston's movies, so this one hits a little closer to home. Throughout his career he played Jews in both The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur, a Mexican in Touch of Evil, and a Spaniard in El Cid (apparently, at the time, there weren't enough Jews and Latinos in Southern California to play these parts). Heston started his career playing bigger than life heroes in lavish Hollywood epics including the aforementioned The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur. Always playing the rugged ...
He Was Legend
Popcorn and Sticky Floors —
I enjoyed Heston in the movies too - ahh, those gnashing teeth. Here's the great scene from The Omega Man where he gets in some "me-time" at the local bijou, enjoying a cheap matinee.
Screengrab's Favorite Movies About Music: Non-Fiction Edition (Part One)
The Screengrab —
A few weeks back, I claimed the period from New Year's to Oscar Night was the most wonderful time of the year for movie geeks, what with all the Best-Of Lists and awards season festivities...but for movie AND music geeks (not to mention the small but powerful barbecue geek lobby), there is no better place or time than mid-March in sunny Austin, when the South-By-Southwest Festival unleashes 1,800 bands from around the world on the capital of Texas, along with several zillion filmmakers, wannabes, hucksters, tourists, web designers, Industry sleazeballs and bloggers (including yours truly, my esteemed ...
