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Proof! and a minor mystery
DB here, sort of: Even doggedly determined readers of this blog may not have seen the codicil to my infuriatingly long entry on The Grand Budapest Hotel. I revisit those remarks now, only because...
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Comic-Con: The end of an era, and other highlights
Kristin here: Long-time readers of this blog may recall that in 2008 I went to Comic-Con for the first time. I can’t recall exactly what led me to take the plunge. It may have been that by that time...
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How he (mostly) got away with it: Matthew H. Bernstein on Preston Sturges
DB here: Matthew H. Bernstein is a long-time friend and a superb scholar. His biography of Walter Wanger has become a classic of Hollywood business history, and his many books and articles have...
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Reeling and dealing: Rescuing movies, by hook or by crook
DB here: There have long been film collectors, and they’re central to film preservation. Some archives, notably the Cinémathèque Française and George Eastman House, were built on the private...
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It’s all over, until the next time
Our Little Sister (Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2015). DB here: The perennial Silly Season topic, The Death of Film, is back. In June, Huffington Post‘s Matthew Jacobs announced “The death of Movies As We Know...
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The Fabulous Forties once more: REINVENTING HOLLYWOOD spreads out on the Net
Daisy Kenyon (1947). DB here: A couple of weeks ago, when I was in New York for the Museum of the Moving Image series based on Reinventing Hollywood, I also met with Violet Lucca, who runs the...
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Taika Waititi: The very model of a modern movie-maker
Thor: Ragnarock (2017). Kristin here: Not every independent filmmaker secretly longs to direct a big Hollywood blockbuster. Jim Jarmusch made a name for himself 33 years ago with Stranger than...
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Could Hollywood possibly be in a box-office slump? Yet again?
Kristin here: Speculative articles are presumably a lot cheaper for a news publication to run than are those pieces that involve travel, time-consuming research, and tracking down experts to weigh in...
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Captain Cinephilia: Scorsese strikes back
Brian McFadden, No One Is Safe: Martin Scorsese Roasts Your Fandom.” DB here: It started with a brief, almost offhand remark. “I don’t see them,” [Scorsese] says of the MCU [Marvel Cinematic...
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Welcoming Jews as heroes in an alternate 1924 Vienna
The City without Jews (1924). Kristin here: Once again Flicker Alley has released a restoration of a film that few have ever heard of. But we all should have heard about this one. And we should have...
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