Category Archives: Read instead…in print
Read instead…in print #45: John Huston by Lillian Ross
“Beautiful journalism”, John Huston said about Picture, Lillian Ross’s reporting of the making of his The Red Badge of Courage. No stylistic flourishing, no gratuitous metaphors, no speculation or gossip, just clarity and simplicity, a probing insight into filmmaking. … Read More
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Read instead…in print #44: Sydney Pollack Collected Interviews
Throughout the years, Three Days of the Condor has become one of my favourite films, a film that works within the thriller genre, but what distances it from tradition is something personal, and the fact that it is deeply … Read More
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Read instead…in print #43: Hitchcock & Herrmann, The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema
Why would anyone consider that Hitchcock did the same type of film over and over again? This idea has always puzzled me, because you only have to listen all the different scores that Bernard Herrmann composed for Hitchcock’s films … Read More
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Read instead…in print #42: Veronica
photo: Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in “Sullivan’s a Travels”, 1941 | Paramount Pictures Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake had been out-of-print, rare and sought-after for many decades, and was reissued 5 years ago by Dean Street Press. … Read More
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Read instead…in print #41: Le Paris de François Truffaut
“What’s important about Truffaut is that he has a quality that surpasses any technical skill; he’s a poet.” Jean Renoir Le Cinéma-Pigalle, le Delta, le Champollion, le Palais-Rochechouart, le Roxy, le Cinéac-Italiens. These were François Truffaut’s … Read More
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