Manny Farber, at 91; influential film critic who decried pretentiousness Aug 22, 2008
He was the first critic to champion the work of Hawks ("The Big Sleep"), Don Siegel ("Dirty Harry"), and Samuel Fuller ("Fixed Bayonets!"), as well as "Looney Toons" animator Tex Avery, among others. His advocacy was not reserved for films whose accessibility disqualified them from the highbrow canon. (Boston Globe)
Roger Cohen: France on amphetamines Jul 16, 2008
Through the big sleep of the Mitterrand and Chirac years, Joni could have come back and written the same lines. France changed, because everything and everyone does, but a remote, monarchical president continued to preside over a country more alarmed than charmed by modernity. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Actresses Who Never Won an Oscar Jul 14, 2008
Bacall began her acting career playing sultry young women in movies such as To Have and To Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946) both of which co-starred her future first husband, Humphrey Bogart. She later went on to act in such notable comedies as How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Designing Woman (1957) and in dramas such as Written on the Wind (1956) and Harper (1966). (Suite101.com)
Listen Up: Live from Bonnaroo Jun 13, 2008
Thursday: The Big Sleep ... Last time I saw Brooklyn trio The Big Sleep, they dealt up dreamy instrumental songs, guitarist Danny Barria spooling out winding swirls while bassist Sonya Balchandani thumped simple thumps, shifting her weight back and forth between legs, demurely, behind a glowing prop that beamed the band's name via Christmas lights ... If you smashed shoegaze's heady atmospheres and the head-nod-inducing, gut-grabbing stomp of stoner-rock, you'd be on The Big Sleep's current... (USA Today -- Life)
Hey, babe, take a walk on the old side Jun 9, 2008
And quite possibly the only one in London where the cast credits can juxtapose Maralin Belchere ('worked for the Red Cross for many years, lives in Dulwich and attended a Singing for Pleasure class in 2007') and the one 'star', Dudley Sutton (Tinker in Lovejoy), whose film credits include The Big Sleep. Maralin was magnificent, by the way. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Gary Wolf vs Walt Disney Studios May 24, 2008
a surrealist spoof of crime noir thrillers like Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. In 1983, Wolf signed a then-standard writer's agreement that he would receive 5% of the gross profits from any movie based on his book. (Suite101.com)
Harvard Film Archive series shines light on noir May 18, 2008
Dick Powell, who played Philip Marlowe in 1944's "The Big Sleep," is John Forbes, a veteran who never saw action and is now bored with everything he should be thankful for - secure job, beautiful home, loving wife. That Jane Wyatt gets third billing as his spouse tells the story: In second position is Lizabeth Scott, who plays Mona Stevens, more girl gone wrong than femme fatale. (Boston Globe)
The big sleep Dec 28, 2007
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Anthology of golden age wakens pulp mags from big sleep Dec 24, 2007
The gods of this mean little universe were Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, who wrote stories like "The Big Sleep" and "The Maltese Falcon." Erle Stanley Gardner created Perry Mason and sold more than 300 million books. James Cain wrote staples like "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "Double Indemnity.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Hit List: Ang Lee Sep 29, 2007
The Big Sleep' (1946). Howard Hawks's legendary detective story stars Humphrey Bogart as the tough Raymond Chandler private eye Philip Marlowe, who is hired by a rich family under false pretenses, and Lauren Bacall as the heiress he can't resist. (Wall Street Journal)
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk Sep 4, 2007
The Bogart character in Sierra Madre does not significantly differ from the Bogart character in The Big Sleep. Nor, in The Big Sleep, is Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe anywhere represented. (Suite101.com)
When will we eliminate prejudice against gays? Aug 15, 2007
Dr Guitar wrote on Aug 14, 2007 9:49 PM:" George, don't worry for me. Worry for yourself. I don't know if you're deceived or if I am, but it really doesn't matter to me at all. I'm comfortable with the big sleep, and not concerned about a punishing God. if he's there, and if he really cares, he'll do the sorting. And who knows, you may find a surprise for yourself on the other side... ". To: To "Not Comfortable" wrote on Aug 14, 2007 6:23 PM:" Your points you made are spot on and I agree fully..... (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Frank Miller in Trouble Jun 23, 2007
Chandler's cynical private dick first appeared in his 1939 novel, The Big Sleep. The adaptation will bring the Marlowe character back to the big screen for the first time since 1978's movie version of The Big Sleep, which starred Robert Mitchum and Joan Collins. (IGN FilmForce)
Miller to direct Owen as Philip Marlowe Jun 21, 2007
The announcement that Owen will play the Raymond Chandler character immortalised by Humphrey Bogart in 1946's The Big Sleep confirms the British actor's ascension to the top of the Hollywood tree. Trouble Is My Business, an adaptation of a short story by the celebrated crime writer, has been described as a star vehicle for him by Variety. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Larry Miller to Share Four of His Favorite Films on Turner Classic Movies' GUEST PROGRAMMER Jun 8, 2007
ATLANTA, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Classic Movies welcomes Larry Miller as he discusses with TCM host Robert Osborne his passion for classic film and introduces such selections as The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and The Big Sleep (1946) on GUEST PROGRAMMER Thursday, June 14 ... He picks Ride the High Country (1962), a Western about the friendship between two aging cowboys, because despite its director's reputation for violence, "No one understands love better than Sam Peckinpah." Miller... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Hold Steady, Neville Bros. Set For Celebrate Brooklyn... May 16, 2007
Other highlights include Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys (June 22), the Stills with Sam Roberts Band and Malajube (June 30), the Hold Steady with the Big Sleep and the Teenage Prayers (Aug. 9) and an African Festival with Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, Sekouba Bambino and others (Aug. (Billboard.com)
Rugby World Cup: Cardiff Hotels May 14, 2007
The Big Sleep, Bute Terrace. Owned by movie star John Malkovich, the opening of the Big Sleep showed that you can have high-style hotels without high prices. (Suite101.com)
Hollywood Hemingway: Apr 14, 2007
(To Have and Have Not has shades of film noir as well, and Hawks followed it with a noir classic, The Big Sleep. . (Slate)
The Thermals to play Black Cat Friday night Mar 1, 2007
Media Credit: Courtesy of Sub PopKathy Foster, Hutch Harris , Lorin Coleman and Joel Burrows of The Thermals gear up to play at the Black Cat, 1811 14th St N.W. with The Big Sleep and Statehood on Friday. Though "An Inconvenient Truth" won both Most Thoroughly Depressing Movie (best documentary) and Least Terrible Song From a Movie (best original song) during this year's Academy Awards, anti-Bushites still seek a unifying rallying cry. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Lauren Bacall: I don't believe in retirement Feb 15, 2007
Her screen credits also include The Big Sleep and Key Largo. She argues that television has dragged down the standard of films. (KHOU.com, TX)
Photos Lauren Bacall: I'm 82 and I'm not retiring Feb 14, 2007
Bacall, who began her acting career in the mid-1940s, was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1996's "The Mirror Has Two Faces." Her screen credits also include "The Big Sleep" and "Key Largo.". She argues that television has dragged down the standard of films. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Terrence Rafferty on "Horror" Jan 27, 2007
The genre's dangerous deceased have more typically roused themselves from the Big Sleep by an unnatural act of will, which implies a degree of motivation that a normal, well-adjusted ex-person would be unable to muster. To bust out of the prison cell of death, whose doors aren't meant to be opened from the inside, a soul has to be mighty uneasy - angry as hell and prepared to do some serious damage. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More on Marlowe Jan 24, 2007
Chandler's Marlowe stories include The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely, both of which have previously been brought to the screen. Dimension. (IGN FilmForce)
Clive Owen to star in noir Marlowe film Jan 24, 2007
Violence is not his modus operandi, and he exhibits keen radar and restraint with the genre's femme fatales, like Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep ... Strike has made a deal to get rights to a Chandler mystery series that includes "The Big Sleep" and "Farewell My Lovely". (Monsters and Critics.com)
Clive Owen: Private Dick Jan 23, 2007
Chandler's cynical private dick first appeared in his 1939 novel, The Big Sleep. Philip Marlowe has been immortalized on the big-screen by the likes of Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, Robert Mitchum in the Big Sleep remake and Farewell, My Lovely, Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet, James Garner in Marlowe and Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye. (IGN FilmForce)
'Marlowe' on ABC's case Dec 12, 2006
Bogart played Marlowe in 'The Big Sleep ... "As of now, there are no plans to use any of Chandler's Marlowe books ("The Big Sleep," et al.) as source material for storylines.Still, "You can expect to see your femme fatales and very wealthy individuals," Bailey said.Producer said the project came together when Endeavor, along with the rights holders to the Marlowe character, contacted him "with the idea of updating the DNA of Marlowe and taking him into 21st century LA.""Greg and Carol then came... (Variety)
Bogey's back Dec 12, 2006
On Thursday, the theater will present another noir double feature: "Out of the Past" and "The Big Sleep" will screen at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m., respectively. Purchase tickets ($9. (Washington Times)
The Big Sleep, Cheltenham Dec 9, 2006
The Big Sleep hotel, Cheltenham ... Somewhere in this rapidly expanding slot sits The Big Sleep, which launched in Cardiff in 1999 ... The Big Sleep aims to cater to all. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Fink meets Bloodsucker proxy Dec 3, 2006
His 13 years in Hollywood produced just two notable successes: scripts for Chandler's baffling The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, both films directed by his friend and drinking accomplice Howard Hawks. Mostly, though, the writer's expedition to the West Coast from the Mississippi was unsuccessful. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Orin Borsten, 94; longtime Hollywood publicist Dec 2, 2006
She was a Hollywood script girl in the '40s when she met Faulkner, the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose best-known screenplay was "The Big Sleep" in 1946. Wilde, whose last name was Carpenter at the time, had an affair with Faulkner, although he was married. (Los Angeles Times)
Too much underbelly and not enough of the man on the telly Nov 22, 2006
Hollywoodland uses the character of hustling private eye Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) to examine some other possibilities including the fact that he might have been murdered by his jilted fiancee Leonore Lemmon (Robin Tunney), his embittered older lover Toni Mannix (Diane Lane) or his lover's seemingly benign husband, Eddie Mannix (Bob Hoskins), the head of MGM. It unfolds as an almost archetypal private detective yarn with just a hint of Chinatown or The Big Sleep as Simo goes poking his nose... (Scotsman)
Who's ready for William Faulkner's 'Nosferatu'? Nov 15, 2006
Their best and most notable collaborations are Faulkner's adaptations of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" and Raymond Chandler's noir classic "The Big Sleep.". In the midst of all this, Faulkner apparently spun out a vampire saga set in an anonymous Eastern European location. (Los Angeles Times)
Hard-rockin' chaos is what fuels the Hold Steady Nov 1, 2006
But some degree of chaos is to be expected from the band, which seems to have an open-door policy on letting its opening acts (in this case, mockingly self-aggrandizing indie rocker Sean Na Na and power trio the Big Sleep) wander on- and offstage and whose lyrics focus on rootless and uncertain screwups fumbling with sex, alcohol, and drugs. Such chaos also sets up moments like the one that followed "Certain Songs." Polivka had finally procured a bass, and Kubler's snarling opening guitar line... (Boston Globe)
Robert Mitchum: The Signature Collection Oct 17, 2006
In addition to those in the Collection, Mitchum's most notable films included Out of the Past, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, Night of the Hunter, Friends of Eddie Coyle, Farewell My Lovely and The Big Sleep (as Philip Marlowe), Mr. North, Cape Fear and Dead Man. His notable television appearances included the mini-series The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Black Dahlia squanders source material, talent Sep 23, 2006
When compared to films like The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon or Chinatown, The Black Dahlia fails miserably. It doesnt even compete with other modern noir-inspired films like L.A. Confidential, Memento and The Usual Suspects. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Movie review: 'Black Dahlia' - De Palma's lifeless take on a Los Angeles murder Sep 16, 2006
Her character, a rich brat out of Raymond Chandler by way of Ellroy (think "The Big Sleep," but creepier) lives with her whack-job family in one of those mansions that serves as a tomb for its inhabitants and a monument to their ambitions. But if he seems right at home among the Linscotts, De Palma is ill at ease when he spends time with most anyone else. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Bus tours Dahlia haunts Sep 16, 2006
The Big Sleep star Humphrey Bogart immortalized his handprints and footprints in the famous forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The poignant classic about WWII vets, The Best Years of Our Lives, was about to sweep the Oscars. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Black Dahlia ** Sep 15, 2006
Instead, the principals Hartnett with his squint, Swank with her pearls, Scarlett with her lips seem stilted and painfully aware of their self-referential surroundings, adrift in a movie about movies set in the land of movies (like The Big Sleep or L.A. Confidential or take your pick). As for De Palma, from his voyeuristic tropes to the doubling motifs to those crane shots, he appears to be quoting himself quoting his betters. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'Black Dahlia' falls short of its promise Sep 15, 2006
Only Swank, who looks as though she stepped out of "The Big Sleep," and Eckhart, who radiates his "Thank You for Smoking" corruptibility, really register. The majority of screen time goes to the pallid Hartnett and Johansson, who lack any resonance with the period - or much resonance at all. (The Herald)
David Denby on “The Black Dahlia” Sep 13, 2006
Hilary Swank, her mouth twisted with desire, plays a lecherous, lying, raven-haired heiress a much more promiscuous version of the two sisters in The Big Sleep. The Irish actress Fiona Shaw turns up, lurching into the frame like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, and she s so far over the top she just seems ludicrous. (New Yorker)
Top picks of the week Aug 24, 2006
The book s chapters are modeled on the syllabus of a college English course with names such as Paradise Lost and The Big Sleep. The story unfolds as Blue and her father, Gareth, travel city to city after her mother s death. (Boston Globe)
We get the movies we deserve Aug 2, 2006
It saw the release of Notorious, The Killers, The Big Sleep, The Stranger and The Postman Always Rings Twice each of which would have been the Best Picture winner in 2005. None of them was even nominated for Best Picture. (Montana Standard, MT)
FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER Jul 16, 2006
Robert Montgomery stars in this undeservedly obscure gem as Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe - the same sleuth played by Humphrey Bogart in 1945's "The Big Sleep" and Dick Powell in 1944's "Murder, My Sweet." ... While not as labyrinthine as "The Big Sleep," this is one twisty mystery. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Not quite love (Gary Arnold) Jul 15, 2006
For many people, the Hollywood attractions of the year were crowned by two Christmas season releases: William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" and Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." Earlier highlights had included "Notorious," "The Big Sleep," "The Killers," "The Spiral Staircase," "My Darling Clementine," "Duel in the Sun," "The Yearling," "Cluny Brown," "Road to Utopia" and "The Harvey Girls." About a year after their domestic release, the British got "Henry V," "Brief Encounter,"... (Washington Times, DC)
Freeview's HDTV trial under way Jun 9, 2006
ITV will offer its own World Cup coverage in HDTV, as well as drama such as Poirot specials Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia, documentaries such as Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures and classic films including All Quiet on the Western Front and The Big Sleep. Channel 4 will contribute US series such as Desperate Housewives and movies from FilmFour, while Five's output will include police drama CSI.. (BBC News)
Telewest to offer HD world cup matches May 17, 2006
"Telewest customers can look forward to a feast of football in stunning high definition (HDTV), thanks to new agreements with ITV and the BBC which mean every World Cup match will be available in the crystal clear broadcast format.Only Telewest customers, plus a closed group of terrestrial HD triallists, will have access to all the games in high definition, offering pictures around four times sharper than standard digital TV. Promising a summer packed with high definition entertainment, ntl... (PVR UK)
TOP totty Uma Thurman takes a toyboy in this rib-tickler rom-com May 12, 2006
TWIN Peaks meets The Big Sleep in this hard-boiled high school film noir by the outrageously talented first-time director Rian Johnson. Social outcast Brendan (brilliantly played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) turns gumshoe when his ex-girlfriend s lifeless body is found in a remote creek. (The Sun Newspaper Online, UK -- Life)
Third Mission: Impossible still has the stuff May 5, 2006
Who really cares if the plot of The Big Sleep makes sense. Or if the storylines of Vertigo or Donnie Darko fail to convince. (MSNBC -- Movies)
20 cool DVDs for spring Apr 14, 2006
"Bogie l The Signature Collection" Hollywood's perfect 1940s couple in four of their most perfect films: "The Big Sleep," "Dark Passage," "Key Largo" and "To Have and Have Not." (April 25). 6. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
'Brick' brings noir up to date (Kelly Jane Torrance) Apr 7, 2006
Think "The Big Sleep" peopled by the cast of "Dawson's Creek." Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the "son" in "3rd Rock From the Sun," plays Brendan Frye with a steely determination. With ex-girlfriend Emily's murder, he's lost the only thing he cared about; what can a few thugs do to him now. (Washington Times)
William Faulkner letter auctioned for $18,000 Feb 21, 2006
Faulkner wrote the screenplays to such classic films as "The Big Sleep" and "To Have and Have Not.". The letter was originally estimated to sell for up to $3,500, according to Bonhams rfields representatives. (Reuters UK -- Entertainment)
William Faulkner Still Makes Good Money Out of His... Letters Feb 21, 2006
Faulkner is the author of "A Fable" and "Soldiers' Pay", and also of screenplays to such classic films as "The Big Sleep" and "To Have and Have Not." A two-page typed letter by William Faulkner to his Hollywood literary agent HN Swanson in which he complains about a screenwriting contract with a Hollywood studio sold today for nearly $18,000, according to auction house Bonhams rfields. In it, he says his former agent tricked him into signing a seven-year contract with Warner Bros, and that the... (Softpedia)
Fleet Street's multiplex Feb 17, 2006
Someone who has never knowingly wanted to watch Robert Mitchum in an old Raymond Chandler remake suddenly thinks, on seeing a masthead advertisement for The Big Sleep in a newsagent: I'd quite like to see that. This element of ease in the transaction seems to be crucial. (Guardian Unlimited)
