Category: Retro Review
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Biker films and I— well, we don’t always get along. We have, I suppose, what can best be described as a complicated relationship. They run the gamut from Eric Von Zipper… who I adore, by the way, to some truly gritty, grimy and borderline unpleasant films. Taking all that baggage into account, I was perhaps…
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Sunset Boulevard is an essential in the history of classic cinema. At this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival they spotlighted the dramatic noir the way it was meant to be seen with the film playing at Grauman’s Chinese Theater with actress Nancy Olson introducing the 1950 classic. Sunset Boulevard follows struggling writer Joe Gillis (William…
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Alfred Hitchcock is a well-known name from the classic Hollywood era. The legendary filmmaker is known for his host of classic films throughout the run of his career. Strangers on a Train is lesser known than films like Notorious or North by Northwest. However, in combining a career performance from Robert Walker as well some…
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In the more than seventy years since the birth of the film noir movement, cinema scholars the world over have written chapter upon chapter of academic texts attempting to define film noir. All forms of analysis from visual to narrative have come into play in an attempt to define this very complex group of films.…
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Last week, we examined the 1933 Jean Harlow comedy, Bombshell for this website. The little film features Lee Tracy starring opposite the popular actress. Evidently, the dam behind Lee Tracy’s work is finally starting to break. While somehow missing his work for almost ten years as a film historian, I’m finally catching up to the…
