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4 September 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

While Episode Three of Mad Men had plenty of musical moments to remember -- from concertina recitals to blackfaced showstoppers to baked a cappella-offs -- its second episode had just one. In a darkened boardroom, we were sent via Sterling Cooper Wabac Machine to 1963 for Ann-Margret's uncharacteristically shrill performance of the title song to Bye, Bye Birdie, upon which they were to base their campaign for Patio diet cola. Against a blue backdrop, the Swedish-born sex kitten and infrequent Flintstones guest star pined for the Broadway-musicalized version of Elvis, (who she'd ironically be blue-balling in Viva Las Vegas the very next year), along the way earning the respect of deeply closeted Charles Strouse fan Sal Romano, and a slap from Peggy Olson, who observes, "Let's assume we can get a girl who can match Ann-Margret's ability to be 25 and act 14."

Ann-Margret was watching:

"My daughter-in-law called and said: »

7 August 2009 9:43 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is heading to the drive-in this August for special Summer Under the Stars presentations of four movies at locations in Atlanta and Southern California. Four theaters will participate each Sunday night in August with screenings of such films as Viva Las Vegas (1964), starring Elvis Presley; Stanley Kubrick.s Lolita (1962), with Peter Sellers; Arthur Penn.s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), featuring Gene Hackman; and Alfred Hitchcock.s To Catch a Thief (1955), with Cary Grant. Admission for the movies will be just $1 per car. In addition, each drive-in will offer a free medium popcorn with the purchase of a medium drink. Each movie will be preceded by a special TCM 15th Anniversary spot touting »

- April MacIntyre

25 March 2009 7:49 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

A cursory look at the filmography of writer-director Ramin Bahrani -- and by "cursory," I mean one not involving actually viewing any of his films -- will suggest to many that he's the kind of filmmaker who specializes in the oft-dreaded Movie That Is Good For You. His films invariably deal with cross-cultural exchange, or lack thereof; his characters are strangers in strange (albeit torn-from-today's-headlines) lands. They are immigrants looking for ways of belonging, foreigners trying to make peace with their obscure pasts and other species of societal outcasts. A possible précis for Bahrani's latest picture, "Goodbye Solo," wouldn't have to try terribly hard to make it sound like a cross between "Driving Miss Daisy" and Kiarostami's "A Taste of Cherry." The picture, set in Winston-Salem (where Bahrani himself was born) tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a cheery Senegalese cab driver named Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) and a super-gruff, »

- Glenn Kenny

3 articles from 2009