See Devil's Bible, Early Nothing, and A Good Time.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Early Nothing
(Continued from yesterday)
Today's New York Times obituaries —
From Wes Clark's site Web Noir —
Scenes from "The Set-Up," a 1949 noir classic by Robert Wise—
From Bruce Gordon's obituary in today's New York Times —
"Mr. Gordon appeared on Broadway many times. He was in the original cast of the hit comedy 'Arsenic and Old Lace,' which opened in 1941 and starred . Uncharacteristically, given his later résumé, Mr. Gordon played a policeman." —Margalit Fox
Related material —
(See Savage Solstice in this journal on December 21st, 2010.)
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
For Your Consideration…
Early Nothing
Manohla Dargis on film director Fritz Lang in The New York Times (online Jan. 21, 2011, printed Jan. 23)—
"Hollywood endings can be beautiful fibs, but in Lang’s movies the glossy smiles and fade-outs feel forced. You can almost feel him pulling at them, trying to bring them back into the dark where they belong. The miracle of his Hollywood era is that, even when the screenplays tried to force his work in one direction, he managed to take them into richer, more complex realms with a style that was alternately baroque and stripped down and peopled with characters whose cynicism was earned. Every so often, though, he did strike screenwriting gold, notably in 'The Big Heat,' his 1953 crime masterwork. 'Say, I like this, early nothing,' a mink-swaddled Gloria Grahame says of a hotel room. Everyone really is a critic."
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