Holiday in Spain / Scent of Mystery was initially planned as an alternative evolution of film exhibition by its original benefactor, Mike Todd, one of the partners in the 3-panel, super-widescreen format Cinerama in the early fifties. Widescreen films had existed as early as the twenties and early thirties…
Produced two years after the death of Argentine-born rebel Che Guevara, Richard Fleischer’s film is infamous for being a grand piece of cinematic kitsch, starring Omar Sharif as the eponymous anti-hero whose face became a brand on T-shirts, sheets, posters, and buttons for decades, and Jack Palance as a cigar-chomping Fidel Castro who led his band of rag-tag rebels into Havana after 2 years of guerilla warfare in the rural areas of Cuba…
Between roughly 1961-1968, syndicated jazz columnist Ralph Gleason hosted a half-hour show on San Francisco’s KQED, part of NET, where various jazz notables from the past, present, and emerging powerhouses would perform and chat (if they desired) with Gleason about their art form…
This TV production from France’s Channel 4 manages to integrate selections from a live concert in Canne with the Orchestre National de Lyon in which Lalo Schifrin performs material from his own repertoire and select classical pieces, and is caught in a series of brief interviews reflecting on his career, some of his best-known themes, and how the latter reflect his approach to scoring movies and TV…
Anjanette Comer (The Appaloosa, The Underneath) plays social worker Ann Gentry, a woman with a secret life who gets too close to her client (only named Baby, and nothing else), and ultimately seeks to liberate him from his oppressive family, headed by Mrs. Wadsworth (Strangers on a Train’s Ruth Roman, a friend of Post, sporting a giant balloon of hair)…
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