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Category Archives: Performers
“Since You Went Away,” a Culture’s Dreams, and the Agee-DOS Dosado
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Since You Went Away” doesn’t have a great reputation among filmbuffs, and it’s not hard to see why: it’s broad, sentimental, and downright propagandistic in its treatment of small-town American life (at nearly three hours, it’s also looooonnnngggg). … Continue reading
Best Rock Intros
Fenster writes: Here is a 2006 Chicago Tribune article by Mark Caro making an attempt at naming the best rock intros of all time. Granted, the article is a bit old but does it make a difference? Most of the … Continue reading
“Mike’s Murder”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In the 1984 “Mike’s Murder,” Debra Winger plays Betty, a young woman whose staidness is underlain by a barely-discernible yearning for immediacy. She has the most sensible of jobs — she’s a bank teller — and … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Debra Winger, James Bridges, Mike's Murder, Paul Winfield
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“Thomas Graal’s Best Film”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Swedish film pioneer Mauritz Stiller is known mainly for his connection to Greta Garbo; it was he who brought her to MGM. But in the 1910s and early ’20s he was a major force in movies, perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers
Tagged Gustaf Molander, Karin Molander, Mauritz Stiller, movies, Romantic Comedy, Silent Film, Sweden, Thomas Graal's Best Film, Vertigo, Victor Sjostrom
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Incredible
Fenster writes: Chucho commented on my Desert Island Discs post, mentioning slyly that that old pagan Rowan Williams included a song by the Incredible String Band among the eight he would take to a desert island. There are some artists … Continue reading
Douglas Fairbanks and “When the Clouds Roll By”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This Douglas Fairbanks project, the first directing effort of Victor Fleming, stands at the nexus of a number of popular art traditions. It dates from 1919, a year prior to Fairbanks’ swashbuckling debut in “The Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Movies, Performers
Tagged Buster Keaton, Comedy, Douglas Fairbanks, Fred Astaire, Georges Melies, Harold Lloyd, movies, Silent Movies, Surrealism, Victor Fleming, Winsor McCay
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Desert Island Discs
Fenster writes: Desert Island Discs is a BBC radio program, one that has been running since 1942 and is one of the longest running radio programs in the world. Various prominent types are asked to imagine themselves cast away to … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Performers, Personal reflections
Tagged Desert Island Disks, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard
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Girliness, Alive and Well on the Internet
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The culture doesn’t provide for much in the way of girliness these days. Have you noticed? I guess I should define what I mean by girliness, but I’m not sure I can whittle it down to … Continue reading
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, OR Simiae est Insanissimae Populos
Fenster writes: Fame is fleeting. You remember newsreels, like actually remember them? Mebbe mebbe not. Depends on age mostly. They were really the only way to disseminate the news visually in a pre-internet and pre-TV era. TV in fact pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Movies, Performers
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