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Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo
Notes on “The Red Violin”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Like writer-director François Girard’s other well-known picture, “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,” “The Red Violin” is a series of short subjects. Here, though, Girard attempts to link these subjects into a mystical narrative based … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music
Tagged canada, Film, Francois Girard, Greta Scacchi, movies, Samuel L. Jackson, The Red Violin
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Notes on “Iceman”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Iceman,” released in 1984, has a fairly cornball screenplay, but it’s elevated by its director and star. That star is John Lone. Playing a Neanderthal who is unfrozen after 40,000 years on ice, Lone is passionate … Continue reading
It Might Have Been a Lost Soul Wailing
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, … Continue reading
Notes on “Cluny Brown”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 1946 “Cluny Brown” is probably the most offhand thing director Ernst Lubitsch did during the sound era. It’s so offhand that it’s almost Buñuelian. Certainly, it’s the most surreal of Lubitsch’s late works. Jennifer Jones … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Cluny Brown, Ernst Lubitsch, Film, Jennifer Jones, movies, Romantic Comedy
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Notes on “Cruising”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: It’s possible that writer-director William Friedkin allowed “Cruising” to go so far, to be so extreme, in part because he felt that his experience directing the 1970 “The Boys in the Band,” often acknowledged as the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Sex
Tagged Al Pacino, Cruising, Film, gay cruising, movies, William Friedkin
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S-t-e-a-m-boat A-Comin’!
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain, Missouri
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Notes on “The Exterminating Angels”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 2006 “The Exterminating Angels,” the middle part of what I take to be writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau’s trilogy on the subject of the modern young woman, is too severe to be effective as trash and too … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Sex
Tagged Film, France, jean-claude brisseau, movies, The Exterminating Angels
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Notes on “Tuff Turf”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The 1985 “Tuff Turf” is an intriguing cult item and a key entry in the James Spader canon. Spader’s Morgan moves to L.A. from Connecticut. His Angeleno friends speak of Connecticut the way a fur trader … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Film, Fritz Kiersch, James Spader, Kim Richards, movies, Tuff Turf
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Straightforwardness in a Belittered World
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In view of the description given, may one be gay upon the Encantadas? Yes: that is, find one the gaiety, and he will be gay. And, indeed, sackcloth and ashes as they are, the isles are … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Books Publishing and Writing
Tagged Galapagos, Herman Melville, The Encantadas, The Piazza Tales, tortoise
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The Ambersons Were Magnificent in Their Day and Place
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Major Amberson had “made a fortune” in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged books, Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, The Magnificent Ambersons
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