Movie Poster of the Week: “20,000 Years in Sing Sing” and Title-Centric Posters through the Ages
Adrian CurryA look at posters in which actors are absent and the title treatment is king.
William A. Wellman
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Notebook's 5th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2012
Daniel KasmanIn our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2012 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.
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The Noteworthy: La Furia Umana + Wild Bill, NYFF, New Trailers
NotebookThis week’s essential film items include an incredible new issue of La Furia Umana, trailers for films by Van Sant and Park, and more.
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Echoes #5
Daniel KasmanStartlingly similar images, dialog, actors and sets in two classic Wellman westerns, The Ox-Boy Incident and Yellow Sky.
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C'est la guerre
David Phelps2012 Cinetract 1: a nuclear journey past the stars.
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Echoes #4
Daniel KasmanThe horror of walking the streets of America in 1933 and 1988.
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Echoes #3
Daniel Kasman…Or: The Inventiveness of Filmcraft: How to Slide a Camera Down a Dune.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “The Public Enemy” and the Berwick Discovery of Lost Movie Posters
Adrian CurryA rare Wellman one-sheet is discovered as part of a treasure-trove of early sound, pre-Code film posters in an attic in Pennsylvania.
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Tumbleweed Tales #2
Daniel KasmanA shot in the dark: Anne Baxter, a revolver, the night, in William Wellman’s Yellow Sky (1948).
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Dan Callahan's "Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman"
David Hudson“A serious book about a serious woman.”
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The Forgotten: Witless for the Prosecution
David CairnsA peppy pre-Code potboiler from William Wellman, starring “Chic” Sale, whose name became a euphemism for American outhouses everywhere.
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Daily Briefing. Rasoulof, Lynch, Tarr, Hitchcock, Wellman
David HudsonAlso: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”