Eight years in, the Sun Valley Film Festival, running March 13-17, has established itself as a laid-back, picturesque event, where you’re as likely to be struck by the beauty of the setting — in the shadow of Idaho’s Bald Mountain — as by the films on screen.
Per executive director Teddy Grennan, this Idaho resort town, a three-hour drive from Boise, already has a rich cinematic history.
“Averell Harriman, who owned Union Pacific, wanted to start a ski town in the mountains, and he didn’t know how to launch it. So he hired this wunderkind, one of the original Mad Men who launched Miami Beach in the early 1900s. And the guy said, ‘Look, you own a rail line. Invite up all the Marilyn Monroes, all the hangers-on, and put it on the house.’ And they did just that. The only thing they asked for was to own the pictures of them — Hemingway,...
Per executive director Teddy Grennan, this Idaho resort town, a three-hour drive from Boise, already has a rich cinematic history.
“Averell Harriman, who owned Union Pacific, wanted to start a ski town in the mountains, and he didn’t know how to launch it. So he hired this wunderkind, one of the original Mad Men who launched Miami Beach in the early 1900s. And the guy said, ‘Look, you own a rail line. Invite up all the Marilyn Monroes, all the hangers-on, and put it on the house.’ And they did just that. The only thing they asked for was to own the pictures of them — Hemingway,...
- 3/4/2019
- by Akiva Gottlieb
- Variety Film + TV
(Dick Cavett, above.)
(Note: This article is currently appearing in Venice Magazine. Talking with Dick Cavett was one of the true pleasures of my time doing these printed Q&A's, as I was getting to conduct an interview with one of the all-time great interviewers, about doing interviews. Below are the highlights of our talk.)
by Terry Keefe
During the varied runs of his television talk show, Dick Cavett arguably conducted in-depth interviews better than anyone in the media before or since.
From 1968 to 1975 on ABC, and then later from 1977 to 1982 on PBS, “The Dick Cavett Show” hosted a literal who’s who of both America and the world. The guest list included Marlon Brando, Woody Allen, Groucho Marx, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, Mel Brooks, Katherine Hepburn, and Ingmar Bergman, to name just a few.
The show was unique in its time,...
(Note: This article is currently appearing in Venice Magazine. Talking with Dick Cavett was one of the true pleasures of my time doing these printed Q&A's, as I was getting to conduct an interview with one of the all-time great interviewers, about doing interviews. Below are the highlights of our talk.)
by Terry Keefe
During the varied runs of his television talk show, Dick Cavett arguably conducted in-depth interviews better than anyone in the media before or since.
From 1968 to 1975 on ABC, and then later from 1977 to 1982 on PBS, “The Dick Cavett Show” hosted a literal who’s who of both America and the world. The guest list included Marlon Brando, Woody Allen, Groucho Marx, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Noel Coward, Salvador Dali, Mel Brooks, Katherine Hepburn, and Ingmar Bergman, to name just a few.
The show was unique in its time,...
- 2/15/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Acknowledging the missile crises and cold war paranoia of the time would have lit a fuse under this well-researched but rather simpler tale of a lot of men lusting after a young showgirl
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Entertainment grade: B-
History grade: B
In 1963, the British secretary of state for war, John Profumo, lied in Parliament about an affair he had had with Christine Keeler. She had also been having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, an alleged Soviet spy.
People
Scandalmongering osteopath Stephen Ward spots Christine Keeler dancing burlesque at Murray's Cabaret Club in Soho, London (in the film, the Café de Paris). Keeler is played by Joanne Whalley, who looks astonishingly like the real thing. The film's producers have done an excellent job of casting actors who look right – including John Hurt as Ward, Jeroen Krabbé as Ivanov, and a Harold Macmillan lookalike in the House of Commons scenes who...
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Entertainment grade: B-
History grade: B
In 1963, the British secretary of state for war, John Profumo, lied in Parliament about an affair he had had with Christine Keeler. She had also been having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, an alleged Soviet spy.
People
Scandalmongering osteopath Stephen Ward spots Christine Keeler dancing burlesque at Murray's Cabaret Club in Soho, London (in the film, the Café de Paris). Keeler is played by Joanne Whalley, who looks astonishingly like the real thing. The film's producers have done an excellent job of casting actors who look right – including John Hurt as Ward, Jeroen Krabbé as Ivanov, and a Harold Macmillan lookalike in the House of Commons scenes who...
- 7/11/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
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