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Category Archives: book review
Silver Saucers & Bug-Eyed Monsters
Keep Watching the Skies: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties (21st Century Edition) by Bill Warren (Introduced by Howard Waldrop) McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers (2010) A thoroughly remarkable tome. At once an invaluable, nay, exhaustive resource and a … Continue reading
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Making Movies With Orson Welles by Gary Graver (with Andrew J. Rausch) (Scarecrow Press; 2008) Secured a copy of Gary Graver’s memoir Making Movies With Orson Welles through an interlibrary loan (all the way from the University of Alberta library … Continue reading
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Tagged "Citizen Kane", acid research, Albert Hofmann, Andrew J. Rausch, book review, cannabis, drugs, film review, Gary Graver, Joseph McBride, LSD, Martin Witz, movie review, Orson Welles, psychedelics, Timothy Leary
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“The Immortals”
Mark Kermode, in his latest collection of essays on cinema The Good, the Bad & the MultiPlex, talks about the “diminished expectations” of the general film-going public. Thanks to the never-ending parade of empty-headed blockbusters Hollywood dumps on us, we’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 300, Avatar, bad movies, blockbusters, Mark Kermode, new movies, The Good the Bad and the Multiplex, The Immortals
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Warning Shadows: Home Alone With Classic Cinema (book review)
Warning Shadows: Home Alone With Classic Cinema by Gary Giddins (2010; W.W. Norton Company) I like Mr. Giddins’ approach to film: it’s personal, unaffected and eclectic. The essays that make up Warning Shadows take on the usual suspects—Welles and Bogart … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Mann, book, book review, classic cinema, cult movies, film noir, Gary Giddins, genre films, Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, Samuel Fuller, Warning Shadows
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