Turner Classic Movies Brings Holiday Cheer to Movie Fans With Digitally Remastered Gem Remember the Night Nov 20, 2009
The critically acclaimed 1940 classic -- starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and scripted by the great Preston Sturges -- will air several times throughout the month, most notably on Christmas Eve at 8 p.m. (ET) ... The screenplay by Preston Sturges demonstrates the writer's unparalleled skill for blending heart-tugging drama with uproarious comedy. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Barbara Stanwyck Among Finest Film ... Nov 12, 2009
The Lady Eve, from director Preston Sturges. Here, she's a smooth con-woman who falls for lovably rich sucker Henry Fonda. (Suite101.com)
Turner Classic Movies & Universal Studios Home Entertainment Team Up to Offer Made-to-Order DVDs of Rare Films Oct 29, 2009
The first titles made available include five chilling horror films, three early Cary Grant pictures and the unsung 1940 holiday classic Remember the Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray and scripted by the great Preston Sturges ... This heart-warming holiday romance - penned by Preston Sturges - marked the first of four on-screen pairings of Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck and came four years before their iconic work in Double Indemnity. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The fall’s Boston-area film festivals Sep 13, 2009
Two events on the HFA calendar stand out: a Sept. 25 screening of Preston Sturges s classic Sullivan s Travels, followed by a discussion of the film with cultural critic Greil Marcus and Harvard literature professor Werner Sollors; and a monthlong retrospective of the films of director Stanley Donen in October. Donen will be present on Oct. 9 and 10. (Boston Globe)
Fears of a clown Aug 9, 2009
The great 1940s writer-director Preston Sturges, on the other hand, channeled the urge into Sullivan s Travels (1941), a serious comedy about a comedy director who wants to be taken seriously ... Judd Apatow is a writer and director, so he s more in the Preston Sturges vein than a performer like Adam Sandler. (Boston Globe)
Odd baby name linked to later bad behavior Jul 18, 2009
Along with Baldwin and Hemingway, theres pop singer-songwriter Garland Jeffries, film director Ivan Reitman, basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actors Luke Wilson and Luke Perry, black leader Malcolm X, legendary filmmaker Preston Sturges, Olympic gold medal boxer Tyrell Biggs, and a host of Walters from Walter Cronkite to Walt Disney to Sir Walter Scott. Video. (MSNBC -- Health)
A Nation of Drivers Jun 16, 2009
In American movies, in Preston Sturges, in Frank Capra, the crowds whizz past in their comfortable clothes, and each person might be thinking their own thoughts, before one of them, Claudette Colbert or Jimmy Stewart, steps out. And if they seem wildly capable of being themselves, that capability is crowned by the ease with which they move themselves around, sovereign in their cars. (The American Conservative)
"The Hangover" Jun 5, 2009
I have a sister who has watched Preston Sturges' brilliant "Miracle at Morgan's Creek" exactly once, and although she likes it, she has vowed never to watch it again -- it makes her feel completely and utterly crazy. "The Hangover" doesn't have Sturges' genius, featherweight-knockout touch, but it does work on a principle that Sturges loved: It builds in us an increasingly squirrelly sense of anxiety, a mounting certainty that none of this is going to turn out OK. (The fact that there's an... (Salon)
'Thousands of Broadways,' 'Perforated Heart,' 'Blue Hour' reviewed May 31, 2009
Interspersed with his recollections are deft analyses of fictional small-town portrayals that expose the smug alongside the snug, from William Faulkner and Mark Twain (who applies "a soft, hand-rubbed sheen of misgiving" to the stereotypical setting) to Preston Sturges and Alfred Hitchcock. Despite some redundancy, Pinsky's eloquent reflections on collective memory and hypocrisy are well worth absorbing. (Boston Globe)
Two dudes and a whole lotta ‘bromance' Mar 21, 2009
One wonders how long it will take some enterprising magazine editor to round up the cast of the short-lived but beloved high-school television drama Freaks and Geeks a show starring James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini and Lizzy Caplan, among many, many others, and co-created by this generation's Preston Sturges, Judd Apatow. I give it five years, maximum. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Isla Fisher shines in dressed-up screwball comedy ''Confessions of a Shopaholic' Feb 13, 2009
Since the movie seems like such an extra-chaotic episode of "Ugly Betty," I'm reluctant to mention George Cukor, Preston Sturges, or even Frank Capra, but at the very least Hogan, whose movies are girlier and gayer, has snacked on the pace of their work as well any number of Technicolor romantic musicals from the 1950s. That's the one thing not in this movie: a production number - although some of Patricia Field's tackier costumes certainly sing. (Boston Globe)
