The movie is a remake, of course, of Al Jolson’s 1927 “The Jazz Singer,” which was the first commercially successful talking picture. The remake has played with time in an interesting way: It sets the story in the present, but it places the characters in some kind of time warp. ...
The Jazz Singer (1927) Willard Louis Matthew Garner Babbitt (1924) Louise Fazenda Madame Mathilde The Bat (1926) Gardner James Philip Garth Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1926) Jane Winton The Leading Lady Sunrise (1927) Holmes Herbert Erwen (as Holmes E. Herbert) Dr. Jekyll and Mr...
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) (Image credit: Ben Rothstein / Netflix) Breaking Bad fans have had it good. First, they got a prequel in the series Better Call Saul. Then, they got a sequel in this one-off movie, which follows Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after the events of...
The Jazz Age(1968) Ronald Fraser Curator The Flight of the Phoenix(1965) Geoffrey Wearing General Lackett BBC Sunday-Night Theatre(1950) Norman Beaton Joe Tennison The Mighty Quinn(1989) David Battley Collins Krull(1983) Keith Smith Barret ...
16. The Jazz Singer (1980) EMI 16. The Jazz Singer (1980) No one disputes Neil Diamond’s prodigious musical talent. His acting talent, uh, that some people would dispute. In this update of the famous landmark of early sound cinema, the Jewish Elvis plays a 40 year old man who remai...
Hindsight’s a bitch: Wings was a fine choice to represent the very first Academy Awards. Interestingly, the Academy sidestepped one of the most influential films ever made, The Jazz Singer. The first “talkie” did receive an honorary award for its pioneering, but – as depicted in S...
Director:Tilman Singer Cast:Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens Genre:Horror Rating:R Metacritic score:62 Yet another uncomfortable horror banger from Neon,Cuckoowill satisfy a certain subset of cinephiles who aren't too interested in a comprehensible plot and are more into a terrifying abstract mood.Euphori...
Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the movie chronicles the lopsided friendship that develops between a gay singer Mario (Manuel Bandera), his straight crush (Angel de Andres Lopez), and the beautiful folk singer who holds them all together (Angela Molina) through the morass of ...
The Jazz Singer (1927) Nigel Barrie John Keogh Bab's Diary (1917) Stuart Holmes Prince The Man Who Laughs (1928) Claude Gillingwater Uncle Sam A Tale of Two Cities (1935) Margaret Loomis Bride Money, Money, Money (1923) Tom Guise Bride's Father 23 1/2 Hours' Leave ...
He hitchhiked a ride, in the back of a station wagon, into New York City in 1961—as a complete unknown—with dreams of becoming a successful singer/songwriter. That’s how this vibrant biopic of Bob Dylan begins, setting up its intoxicating whirl through the turbulent first half of the ...