Tag Archives: otto preminger

catherine: rule by parlor trick

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dave

1787. Catherine’s triumphal tour to the Crimea. Catherine’s boat ride. The Empress was showing off the wonders of her realm, and they were many indeed. But were they real or were they fake. Only Potemkin knew for sure, and he … Continue reading →

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Door prize: will the real Joan please identify herself

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Dave

There is the strange and mysterious episode of the “false Joan of Arc” – or “false Joans of Arc,” for we cannot be quite sure now whether there were one or several pretenders…. Men, we may conjecture, did not quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Carolyn Gage, Graham Greene, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, jean seberg, Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Quicherat, Madame Pickwick, Mark twain Joan of Arc, otto preminger, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Scherrer painter, Susan Crane, The Vigils of Charles the VII, The Vigils of Charles VII, Trial of Joan of Arc | Leave a comment

re-write the book

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave

More often than not, film versions of popular novels tend to give rise to unfavorable comparisons; the former pulling the literary qualities into the realm of the never-never land of American movies, the Democratic little guy and gal based on … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Betty White, charles laughton, Dalton Trumbo, Henry Fonda, Howard Taubman, Loring Mandel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto Preminge Advise and Consent, otto preminger, Wendell Mayes | Leave a comment

not by the book

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Dave

Throw the book away. Should movies be judged on their own merits and not on the books from which they often give cinematic form to, and nver mind where the original ideas came from? A classic example is form the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Allen Drury Advise and Consent, charles laughton, Henry Fonda, Howard Taubman, Loring Mandel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, otto preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, Wendell Mayes | Leave a comment

basic melancholy

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

At the age of twenty-three Jean Seberg had been “discovered” in the heartland of America, precipitated into the starring roles of two monumental flops, dumped by her famous discoverer-Otto Preminger- and cast into cinematic outer darkness, only to be swept … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged french new wave cinema, godard breathless, Jean Paul Belmondo, jean seberg, jean seberg breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, otto preminger | Leave a comment

the sinister and dreadful “yes”

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Vincent Price (1911-1993)! Erudite and eloquent, possessing a singular elocution that could make a three letter word like “yes” seem sinister and dreadful, or drip with lofty sarcasm. Yet with … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged basil rathbone, Boris Karloff, courtauld institute, debra paget, famous monsters of filmland magazine, gene tierney, harry chester, jesse marinoff reyes, Matthew Hopkins, otto preminger, Peter Lorre, rabbi gershom crossroads, richard matheson, Roger Corman, the martha raye show, vampira, vincent clarence price, vincent leonard price sr., vincent price, william castle | 1 Comment

Jackie : putting pins in the valley of the dolls

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Dave

A product of her times. Or simply another variant on the white liberal Eastern establishment, make that neo-liberal and what appears to be appallingly ethno-centric and racist, filled with any number of twisted ideas as a defense mechanism in guarding … Continue reading →