Tag Archives: Film

Knockin’

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Slim Pickens’ demise in “Pat Garret & Billy the Kid” is probably my favorite movie death scene. Pickens, a cowboy-movie staple, was typically a farcical figure — the guy you’d laugh at between the shoot-outs and the daring feats of … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Performers | Tagged Bob Dylan, Film, Katy Jurado, movies, Pat Garret & Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah, Slim Pickens, westerns | 10 Comments

Movie Poster Du Jour: “The Passion of Joan of Arc”

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This poster for Dreyer’s “Joan” must be one of the earliest products of Boris Konstantinovitch Bilinsky’s cinema advertising company, Alboris, founded just a few months prior to the film’s Parisian opening in October 1928. A Russian expat … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged Boris Bilinsky, Carl Dreyer, Falconetti, Film, France, Movie Posters, movies, Silent Film, The Passion of Joan of Arc | 5 Comments

“The Great Beauty”

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: A fanciful jaunt through modern-day Rome seen through the eyes of a nearing-the-end-of-the-road libertine, “The Great Beauty” consciously evokes Fellini, though it’s free of Fellini’s attenuation and his lordly high-handedness. Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino has the advertising-soaked sensibility … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, The Good Life | Tagged Film, Italy, movies, Paolo Sorrentino, Rome, The Great Beauty, Toni Servillo | 7 Comments

Loners

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In those days the one girl D.W. ever appeared with outside the studio was Lillian Gish, although none of us even dared whisper that their association was anything but platonic. Nobody had ever heard D.W. address … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Movies, Performers | Tagged A Girl Like I, Anita Loos, D. W. Griffith, Film, Lillian Gish, movies, Silent Film | 2 Comments

Movie Poster Du Jour: “Repulsion”

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

Posted in Commercial art, Movies | Tagged Cathering Deneuve, Film, Italy, Movie Posters, movies, Repulsion, Roman Polanski | 1 Comment

Soft Spots

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I have a soft spot for secret passageways, bookshelves that open into silence, staircases that go down into a void, and hidden safes. I even have one myself, but I won’t tell you where. At the … Continue reading →