Joel McCrea News

FOUR FACES WEST is a relatively unsung gem of a Western which deserves to find a wider audience.

Movies about the business of making movies can often be dark, cynical affairs, with Sunset Boulevard as the ultimate classic example.

Dir. Sam Peckinpah . Sam Peckinpah virtually created the autumnal western in 1962 with this fiercely moving account of two aging gunfighters, played by aging Western stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott , fighting the good fight one last time.

A G.I. and a girl who have known each other three days marry in San Francisco on the eve of the new husband's deployment to serve in WWII.

Screwballs Whether or not you think rock critic Greil Marcus is kind of puffed up, it's worth sitting through whatever he is going to say about the film in order to see Sullivan's Travels , Preston Sturges's comedy about a director of comedies who sets out to make a Serious Movie - "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" - is one of the director's best.

Join composer–turned–Broadway performer–turned–porn star–turned-real estate flipper Tom Judson as he travels the country to perform his one man show, Canned Ham.

Turner Classic Movies showed a number of Miriam Hopkins films earlier this week, including WISE GIRL , which I watched last evening.

Join composer–turned–Broadway performer–turned–porn star–turned-real estate flipper Tom Judson as he travels the country to perform his one man show, Canned Ham.

STRANGER ON HORSEBACK is a dandy little 66-minute Western starring Joel McCrea as a gutsy circuit-riding judge who goes up against a town in order to see a murderer brought to trial.

Here is this week's list of the editor's choice of things to do: FRIDAY, AUG. 7, 2009 Eat and be entertained: A variety of appetizers, wine sampling and live entertainment from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Mercato, 9118 Strada Place, Naples.

Here is this week's list of the editor's choice of things to do: FRIDAY, AUG. 7, 2009 Eat and be entertained: A variety of appetizers, wine sampling and live entertainment from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Mercato, 9118 Strada Place, Naples.

Here is a little midweek treat, showing next Monday, and again at the end of the month, at London's BFI Southbank as part of its Passport to Cinema strand.

"Westerns are timeless. The soundtracks rarely are." Lileks tweeted that pithy two-liner a few weeks ago, and I've been thinking about it ever since.

Before MOON OVER MIAMI and THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE , there was the delectable romantic comedy THREE BLIND MICE, starring Joel McCrea, Loretta Young, and David Niven.

FOR KICKS: Indie mainstay band The Shins may have undergone some personnel changes recently, but that won't affect the enthusiasm with which they rock Terminal 5 tonight -- or the audience lovefest that's guaranteed to ensue.