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Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo
A Magnificence Suitable to a People Who Styled Themselves the Masters of the World
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The only merit of the administration of Carinus that history could record, or poetry celebrate, was the uncommon splendor with which, in his own and his brother’s name, he exhibited the Roman games of the theatre, … Continue reading
Notes on “First Blood”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 1982 “First Blood” has much in common with the Kirk Douglas vehicle “Lonely Are the Brave,” made 20 years earlier. The heroes of both movies are veterans and pariahs, and they duke it out with … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Action Movies, Film, First Blood, movies, Rambo, Sylvester Stallone, Ted Kotcheff
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Juxtaposin’: Speechifying
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:
Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Film, Juxtaposin', movies, Robert Donat, The 39 Steps, The Great Dictator
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Movie Poster Du Jour: “Man of Aran”
Fabrzio del Wrongo writes: This British three-sheet for Robert Flaherty’s 1934 “Man of Aran” was designed by Marc Stone, a notable commercial artist who was responsible for some great posters, including a couple for the Karloff horror vehicle “The Ghoul.” … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Movies
Tagged England, Film, Man of Aran, Marc Stone, Movie Posters, movies, Robert Flaherty
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Charlemagne Sleeps at Salzburg
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Such a changed France have we; and a changed Louis. Changed, truly; and further than thou yet seest!—To the eye of History many things, in that sick-room of Louis, are now visible, which to the Courtiers … Continue reading
Notes on “Tusk”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In “Tusk,” writer-director Kevin Smith burrows deep into a hole of self-loathing and misanthropy. He’s beating up on the digital age, on young people, on hip callowness: the movie plays like the howl of a onetime … Continue reading
Alas, That They Are So
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: DUKE ORSINO Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, Save in … Continue reading
Haven’t You an Adventurous Soul, Mr. Bayliss?
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: He had scarcely seen her to speak to since the beginning of the voyage. When she was not walking with Rolly or playing shuffle-board with Twombley, she was down below ministering to the comfort of a … Continue reading
Notes on “Let’s Go Native”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Like many early talkies, the 1930 “Let’s Go Native” is so effortlessly weird it serves as proof an innate American tendency toward surrealism. Jeanette MacDonald — still in her lingerie-naughty, pre-MGM phase — plays a Broadway … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Eugene Pallette, Film, Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald, Kay Francis, Leo McCarey, Let's Go Native, movies, Musicals, the old weird America
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