Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo

About Fabrizio del Wrongo

Recovering liberal arts major. Unrepentant movie nut. Aspiring boozehound.

Ballplay

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m currently enjoying a media blackout phase. Consequently, I’m trying to stay away from the television. Still, I sometimes have a nature show or something running in the background as … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal reflections, Sex, Sports, Television, Women men and fashion | Tagged Advertising, Baseball, David Ortiz, Forearm Spooge, Masturbation, Men, OkCupid, SkyMall, Sportscrap, The Matrix | 16 Comments

“Journey’s End”

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Based on a play by R. C. Sherriff, the 1930 “Journey’s End” is a good example of a movie which benefits from its stage origins. It’s less a war film than a waiting-through-a-war film: for most … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged All Quiet On the Western Front, Colin Clive, David Manners, Dawn Patrol, Ernest Hemingway, Great War, Ian MacLaren, James Whale, Journey's End, Laurence Olivier, movies, R. C. Sherriff, Richard Barthelmess, War Films, Westfront 1918, World War I | 2 Comments

Campus Cuties, by Louis Marx and Company

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: During the years immediately following the Second World War, Louis Marx and Company was the largest toy producer in the world. The outfit was mainly known for its molded plastic figures, many of them sold in … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial art, Personal reflections | Tagged 1960s, Action Figures, Barbie, Belle & Sebastian, Campus Cuties, Dolores Hart, Fashion, Feminism, G.I. Joe, Hasbro, James Bond, Kenner, Louis Marx and Company, Mattel, Paula Prentiss, Playboy, Playsets, Post-War America, Sears, Star Wars, The Twist, Toys, Where the Boys Are, Yvette Mimieux | 21 Comments

“The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque”

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: When you think of New Wave filmmakers who’ve delved into politics Eric Rohmer probably isn’t the first guy to spring to mind. And for good reason: he was always the group’s miniaturist-philosopher, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged architecture, Casualism, Cinema Verite, Conservationism, Conservatism, Environmentalism, Eric Rohmer, France, Gustave Courbet, movies, Musicals, politics, Socialism | 8 Comments

“The Kissing Bandit,” Frank Sinatra, and Ricardo Montalban

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I’ve been going through some of the lesser-known MGM musicals of late. There’s a lot of dreck hiding out in that celebrated body of work. But one of the things you quickly realize is that even … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged Ann Miller, Auteur Theory, Choreography, Cyd Charisse, Dance, Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Sinatra, Jeanette MacDonald, Kathryn Grayson, Laslo Benedek, MGM, movies, Musicals, Nelson Eddy, Pauline Kael, Ricardo Montalban, Stanley Donen, The Kissing Bandit | 3 Comments

Bardot Iconography

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The posters for Brigitte Bardot’s films constitute their own little genre of graphic design. Which do you like best?

Posted in Commercial art, Movies, Performers, Sex | Tagged Brigitte Bardot, Graphic Design, Movie Posters, movies | 8 Comments

“Black Wings Has My Angel”

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Someone recommended this to me a while back. I took a chance on it when I noticed it was available cheap for the Amazon Kindle. (Maybe it still is.) Written by the terrifically-named Elliott Chaze, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Commercial art, Movies, Personal reflections, Sex | Tagged Black Wings Has My Angel, Crime Fiction, David Foster Wallace, Elliott Chaze, Film Noir, Gold Medal Books, Pulp | 6 Comments

“Night Flight”

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This MGM star vehicle has been out of circulation since its original run in 1933, probably owing to legal issues related to the rights of the source story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. (Yeah, THAT Antoine de … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged Airport, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Aviation, Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Howard Hawks, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, MGM, movies, Myrna Loy, Night Flight, Only Angels Have Wings, The Towering Inferno, Warner Archive Collection | 3 Comments

“Chronicle”

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Chronicle” is a superhero film that strips the genre down to its essence, namely the exhilaration and consequences associated with extra-human powers. In doing so it manages to feel truer to Stan Lee’s dictum, “with great … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Brian De Palma, Christopher Reeve, Chronicle, Josh Trank, movies, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Superhero | Leave a comment

Genre Movie Themes, Adult Fantasies

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Have you ever noticed how many genre movies of the late ’50s, ’60s, and early ’70s featured specially-composed pop songs? It’s one of my fave aspects of that era in movies. I’m not sure exactly where the … Continue reading →