https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGW99M-45Bg
Sunday, October 23, 2011
THE POETIC METAPHOR: HOLLYWOOD POWER BROKERS The Big Knife 1955 and Sweet Smell Of Success 1957
BLIND RIGHT-HANDED HOLLYWOOD CYNICISM BY CLIFFORD ODETS......BRILLIANT NOIR CINEMATOGRAPHY BY JAMES WONG HOWE
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wherever you go.....there you are......
Upon the acquisition of this odd portrait of young Truman Capote, by Carl Van Vechten, I began to think of my own boyhood in Alabama, where I had an identical shirt and a shelf full of odd stuffed creatures.......When I first got out of Dodge and visited New York, encountering many of the same personalities that Truman had come across just a few years before......I thought of "Breakfast at Tiffany's", wherein the young Lula Mae Barnes cops some attitude and transforms herself into Holly Golightly.........Fortunately, I did not fall for the tinsel and glamour of the Big Town.......
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Guy Maddin - Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (2009)
I HEARD TODAY...THAT GUY MADDIN'S LATEST WORK, THE KEYHOLE IS IN RELEASE........ I'm also intrigued by the yet unseen, by me anyway, works by Bruce McDonald (The Tracy Fragments) and Jean-Marc Vallée (Café de flore)........
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
DANIEL CRAIG......BEFORE JAMES BOND......
