Category Archives: Film
The Poster Art of Hans Hillmann
Hans Hillmann poster for Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) One of the pieces of film memorabilia in our home that I cherish the most is the Metropolis poster designed by Schulz-Neudamm, which is unequivocally included on every possible list of … Read More
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Ryan Gosling and His Otherworldly “Drive” Jacket
That’s Ryan Gosling at the wheel. After all the singing and dancing in La La Land, here is a little reminder that he can do tough, too (but then again, he can take on any role). Gosling is Driver … Read More
The Road Home
There is a sensibility to Asian cinema that you can not encounter in any other films. A little while ago I watched The Road Home (1999), directed by Yimou Zhang. And in all my frenzy of seeing as many … Read More
Three Movie Lovers and Their Ten Movie Picks
Three movie lovers met over the winter holidays and challenged each other to select ten of their top movies of all time. I may have mentioned before that my husband and my brother are even bigger movie buffs than … Read More
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Suit Acting and Android Fashion in Metropolis
January 10th, 1927. It was on this day, 90 years ago, that Fritz Lang released Metropolis, not only a key film of the German expressionist movement, but also the primordial science fiction movie. A drama of the future set … Read More
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