Cinema Retro Issue #20 (2011)
- Candy starring Ewa Aulin as the sexy teen nymph in an
all-star fiasco that involved Marlon
Brando, Ringo Starr, James Coburn and Walter
Matthau.
- Earthquake, the 1974
blockbuster starring Charlton Heston,
Ava Gardner and many other familiar faces in one of the most successful
films of the genre. Ross Warner reminds why the film remains a guilty pleasure
and Thomas Hauerslav of the web site In70mm.com presents a fascinating look at
the history of Sensurround, the Oscar-winning sound system that had more than
its share of mishaps.
- Nick Anez provides analysis of two Fox
Westerns from the 1960s: The Comancheros starring John Wayne and Stuart Whitman and Rio
Conchos starring Whitman and Richard
Boone. Anez examines the startling similarities between the two films and
debates if Conchos can truly be regarded as a remake of The Comancheros.
- Lee Pfeiffer has a sit-down
interview with jazz great Kyle Eastwood
and discusses his scoring of films with his father, Clint Eastwood. Kyle also recalls starring with his dad in Honkytonk
Man and making a cameo in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
- Gary McMahon looks at memorable
films that have coped with the restrictions of shooting key sequences in
confined places, from the legendary fight aboard the Orient Express in the
James Bond classic From Russia With Love to Hitchcock's
Lifeboat and Huston's Key Largo.
- Cinema Retro music critic Darren Allison
provides an in-depth tribute to the recently departed legendary composer John Barry.
- Matthew Field concludes his
three-part interview with director Lewis
Gilbert with discussions of Friends and Educating Rita.
- Herbie J. Pilato examines the
good, the bad and the ugly among major films based on legendary TV series such
as The Fugitive, Get Smart and The
Wild, Wild West.
- Raymond Benson looks back on his
top films of 1979 including Alien and Apocalypse Now.
- Cinema Retro honors famed film
critic and documentary maker Richard
Schickel at a special event held at the Players club in New York City.
- Gareth Owen pays tribute to Michael Powell's long-neglected classic
Peeping
Tom.
- Coverage and photos from the new
book MGM:
Hollywood's Greatest Backlot