Category Archives: Film
Revisiting North by Northwest and Its Costumes
It’s easy to inhabit Alfred Hitchcock’s worlds. His films are thought out to the tiniest detail and you slip right in. Time stops and the rest of the world falls away. North by Northwest is one of those films I would watch (and I have watched) over and over again. “For his pictures are destined to circulate throughout the world,” Truffaut said. Throughout your mind, and throughout the decades, one might add. Read More
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The book Hayao Miyazaki is a magical portal into the films and worlds of the Japanese filmmaker. Hayao Miyazaki’s fantastic worlds are unlike anything done before, free from typical fairy tale characters. Miyazaki’s characters are driven by their own logic. Read More
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December Newsletter: On James Bond and a Time for Short Stories
No Time to Die takes James Bond back to Venice with Madeleine. He is back where his story with Vesper Lynd ended. It makes sense. The last Daniel Craig Bond is probably also the last Bond as we’ve known him and loved him. Read More
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Deadly Kitty Collins: Ava Gardner in The Killers
Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster and Virginia Christine in “The Killers”, 1946. Universal Pictures An adaptation after a short story by Ernest Hemingway, Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946), is a tour de force of the noir genre, one that covers … Read More
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Camille Paglia’s essay on The Birds is a superb piece of writing about cinema and the est and most compelling I have read about the film itself. Read More
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