Showing posts with label motion picture industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motion picture industry. Show all posts
Saturday, September 21, 2024

any dream was better than no dream ... The Day of the Locust (1975)

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    The Day of the Locust [DVD]. Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount Pictures, 2004. John Schlesinger, director. Based on the novel by Nathanael We...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

enigmatic rebel: Ann Dvorak

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    Rice, Christina. Ann Dvorak: Hollywood’s Forgotten Rebel. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 2013.      From 1930 to 1934 a gr...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

who are the greatest geniuses in cinema history?

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 We admire geniuses, we love them, but they discourage us. They are great concentrations of intellect and emotion, we feel that they have so...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

fate takes an option: the mixed legacy of the Val Lewton horror unit at RKO

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     The history of motion pictures is littered with tales of might-have-beens, false starts, and missed opportunities, all chronicled in so...
Friday, March 3, 2017

The Big Knife (1955)

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The Big Knife . [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]. DVD. Santa Monica: MGM Home Entertainment, 2002. Produced and directed by Robert Aldrich...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991)

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I just had the happy fortune to catch White Hot on the Escape TV channel and enjoyed it very much. White Hot is of course a mad...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

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     Valley of the Dolls , a Mark Robson-David Weisbart production; screenplay by Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley; produced by ...