Oyez, oyez! Welcome to Day 6, the final day of our courtroom extravaganza! In the first five?days we saw, among others, posts on Hitchcock worth knowing better (The Paradine Case), lynching (Fritz Lang?s?Fury), Louise Brooks?s Lulu in?Pandora?s Box,?Kramer vs. Kramer,...
“McPherson, if you know anything about faces, look at mine. How singularly innocent I look this morning. Have you ever seen such candid eyes?” “Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man she’d ever met. I was in complete accord with her on...
What do?Duck Soup,?Anatomy of a Murder,?The Story of Temple Drake, and?Adam?s Rib?have in common? Whether dramas, comedies, or tragedies, they?re all courtroom movies. What?s your favorite? Second Sight Cinema?and?Cinemaven?s Essays from the Couch?are pleased as punch...
The Invisible Man?is a bit of a?stepchild among James Whale?s Universal horror films, which is understandable since?Frankenstein?(1931) and even more?Bride of Frankenstein?(1935) were not just sensationally successful at the box office but embedded themselves...
Aiyeeeeee! Not another Stanwyck snub?I just can?t take it! Oscar snubs has got to be one of the juiciest of blogathon topics?we?re all so?passionate?about it. Myself included?At the moment, working on this post, I am mad enough to spit that Barbara Stanwyck, who might...
Mary Astor?s memoir?A Life on Film?is fantastic?she?s a wonderful writer, and her sharp observations on the industry and what went on behind the cameras are fascinating and incredibly useful to anyone who writes about classic film. Astor writes of being asked by a...
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