"And that’s all I’m going to say about that."
While writing “Alaaarm!” “Dive! Dive! Dive!”, a recent post sharing some of my favorite submarine movies, the list continued to grow. Here are some more noteworthy submarine movies worth watching. British film Morning Departure (1950) directed by Roy Ward Baker,…
Read more
“Alaaarm! Alaaarm!” A German submariner secures the upper hatch and a U-boat begins a crash dive. “Dive! Dive! Dive!” A US submariner secures the upper hatch and his submarine begins a crash dive. Or maybe there is silence, deep blue…
Read more
Blend film noir with science fiction? You bet. My top two picks: Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution, (Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution), 1965, director Jean-Luc Godard, cinematographer Raoul Coutard; and Blade Runner, 1982, director Ridley Scott,…
Read more
A recent Facebook exchange, initiated by one of my nieces, about good books to read to your kids got me thinking about sharing some of the classics with your children. It was a short mental trip from classic books to…
Read more
What do Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Searchers have in common? Well, they are all movies. They were all directed by masters of filmmaking and storytelling: Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Frank Capra and John…
Read more
“Vandalism of art refers to intentional damage of an artwork.” (Wikipedia) Pan and scan is a method for cropping a film (most typically at the sides). One goal was to “refit” a widescreen image to viewing on the square television…
Read more
What’s the connection? Smaug in The Desolation of Smaug put me in mind of Ray Harryhausen, master of special effects who died earlier this year. Apparently the thirteen year old Harryhausen saw the 1933 King Kong, with stop-motion animation courtesy…
Read more
This wonderful gouache by Franz Marc is only one of the ~1,400 artworks found in a Munich apartment among piles of garbage which has me thinking about a few films related to this story. I have three in particular in…
Read more
We recently saw four documentaries about film. There were common threads intertwining these films on film and I was glad we saw them in close proximity which highlighted their connections. I recommend watching these as a set, but each one…
Read more