Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys: Revisiting Frank Borzage’s No Greater Glory and...
"With flags fluttering, the cast stoically stands at attention, with tears streaming down their stiff upper lips. Even with their country's destruction, the boys reflect a military mentality, still in...
View ArticleOrson Welles and the Death of Sirhan Sirhan: Part I: The Conspirators
2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Orson Welles. Despite numerous biographies and critical studies, we are still piecing together the full story of his wild and complicated[...] The...
View ArticleOrson Welles and the Death of Sirhan Sirhan: Part II: The Safe House
Part I of this article told the story of how Orson Welles, while directing his legendary and never-finished Other Side of the Wind, took time out in early 1975 to[...] The post Orson Welles and the...
View ArticleBringing Day to Night: The Resurrection of The Night of the Hunter
“It’s really a nightmarish Mother Goose story.”1 – Charles Laughton, director Given the above description, any initial box office success for The Night of the Hunter (1955) was likely to[...] The post...
View ArticleGet a Grip: Celebrating Those Overworked, Underpaid, Practically Invisible...
A grip is a jack-of-all-trades: part mover, part roadie, part handyman, part mechanic, and part mechanical engineer. Grips are in charge of lifting, moving, constructing, rigging, pushing, driving, and...
View ArticleMoving from Japanese Film Distribution to Production: An Interview with Third...
What Third Window’s practices and Adam Torel’s insights provide is a view of the industry that contrasts significantly from current Japanese film research, especially in light of other exhibitors...
View ArticleLost Letter: HUAC, Immigration, and William Wellman’s My Man and I (1952)
In My Man and I, “it seems that America has fallen into decline and the Stones and Nancy Walkers of America need the redemptive power, the cultural revivification offered by[...] The post Lost Letter:...
View ArticleAt Sea, In Port, Up the River: Orson Welles’s Conrad Adaptations
Conrad was more than a mere influence. He was also a direct source of story material. Welles considered himself “made for Conrad” and frequently returned to Conrad’s original stories. Adaptation[...]...
View ArticleThe Cinematic Faulkner: Framing Hollywood
“The Cinematic Faulkner” includes excerpts from The Life of William Faulkner, Volume 1: The Past Is Never Dead 1897-1934 (March 2020) and Volume 2: This Alarming Paradox 1935-1962 (September 2020),...
View ArticleTalking with Production Designer Sebastian Krawinkel about Terrence Malick’s...
It wasn’t always that simple for the shooting unit to improvise with A Hidden Life being a period film, but nevertheless Terry would wander off sets with the actors and[...] The post Talking with...
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