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About Fabrizio del Wrongo

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

Notes on “Finishing School”

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This RKO production about young ladies making their way through a stuffy Manhattan finishing school tries its darndest to be a drag, particularly when it focuses on Frances Dee and her involvement with Bruce Cabot’s sturdy do-gooder. (He … Continue reading →

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Movie Posters of the French New Wave (Italian Edition)

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: As in France, the appearance of New Wave films in Italy coincided with the advent of new techniques for the creation of movie posters. Designs became hipper, more au courant, and gradually the use of photographic images … Continue reading →

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Juxtaposin’: We Happy Few

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

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Notes on “Skin Game”

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Skin Game” has the modest charm of a joshing tall tale or a comic folk ballad. Given its premise, which involves a bi-racial duo of con men who repeatedly allow the black partner to be sold into slavery … Continue reading →

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Mom Jeans Haiku

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Over heart-shaped rear Denim stretched like blue-hued bliss No low-rise bullshit

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“The Middle of the World”

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Alain Tanner’s “The Middle of the World,” released in 1974, is a movie about cultures clashing in the most subtle of ways. Maybe it’s more appropriate to say it’s about cultures slipping past each other in the … Continue reading →

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Surf Music

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Related A good source. Another.

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Knockout Game Roundup

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Last week The New York Times ran a story on “knockout game.” As Chuck Ross at Gucci Little Piggy pointed out, the piece cleverly shifted focus away from the effects of the punching attacks onto a debate about … Continue reading →

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Notes on “My Chauffeur”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This Crown International production from 1986 is perkily hit-and-miss. It seems like an attempt to do a modern-day screwball comedy with some Dickensian elements (there are some real shockeroos, plot-wise), but the tone is mostly off — it’s … Continue reading →

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Linkage

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The high-flying paeans these women write to their bodies are a hoot. (H/T Advocatus Diaboli) Porno kitsch. (H/T Glynn Marshes) I love a good funny gif. Lloyd Fonvielle has some nice things to say about a … Continue reading →

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