The Night of the Hunter News

Here are some movies I've watched in recent weeks. "Thunder Road" My friend Hanna has this dream of opening a moonshine bar in Asheville, N.C., and when I asked her whether she'd ever seen "Thunder Road," the 1958 film starring Robert Mitchum as a moonshine runner, she was downright insulted.

What's Your Reaction? First, I suppose I should describe what I mean by "cool", since the word is so broadly defined now Growing up, to me "cool" meant someone that people were instinctively drawn to, but who kept themselves slightly apart.

The Night of the Hunter . I'd say this was unlike any movie you've ever seen, except 1) I haven't seen every movie you've seen, and 2) there are times it reminds us of other films.

THOMASTON : The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library is presenting a series of films in Room 208 of the Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. The Friday night movies for October have the theme of Thrills and Chills.

The Danville Public Library continues its "Great Books to Great Films" series at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct.

In Charles Laughton's 1955 film The Night of the Hunter , the main character of Harry Powell is one of great mystery.

When we conducted our recent phone interview, Kathy Garver was baking a lemon meringue pie.

In 1975, Robert Mitchum was a very lived-in 58 and, let's be honest, a little too old to play hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe on the big screen.

Born Shirley Schrift in St Louis, Missouri, and raised in Brooklyn, she was the daughter of a clothes designer and a singer , a liberal Jewish couple.

Born Shirley Schrift in St Louis, Missouri, and raised in Brooklyn, she was the daughter of a clothes designer and a singer , a liberal Jewish couple.

Born Shirley Schrift in St Louis, Missouri, and raised in Brooklyn, she was the daughter of a clothes designer and a singer , a liberal Jewish couple.

Since the recent announcement that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was returning to 10 best picture nominations - something it hasn't done since 1943 - fans and pundits have been discussing the pros and cons of the decision.

All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance.

BLUES: Ax man Albert Castiglia has been all over the place, geographically speaking.

From what you've read or heard, you probably know by now that Polaris Music Prize long lister , Taylor Kirk a ' a.k.a. Timber Timbre a ' is a pretty creepy guy.

Am I the only person in the western hemisphere who's never been able to sit through the whole of "Gone With the Wind"? Molly Haskell, on the other hand, is a devotee, as she demonstrates in her new book, reviewed in the TLS .

Quail Ridge Books & Music - Eve Kosofsky Sedwick has described James Morrison's writing style as "somewhere between Proust and David Sedaris." In his new collection of short stories, Said and Done , the former NCSU English professor and award-winning Indy film reviewer produces densely textured prose that blurs the line between realism and ...

The son of a Yorkshire hotel keeper, Laughton was expected to go into the family business after graduating from Stonyhurst School at age 16.

Robert Matheny remembers seeing James Childers around town, often as he walked to the post office.

Like many classic film gems, at the time of the film's release, it was not a critical nor a box office success.