FILM-CRIT IN THE BLOOD
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FT Top 100 Films
58: BLACK CAT WHITE CAT
Initial memories? You can’t really get past the the perfection of the farce which destroys the toilet, dumping the auld fella in the shit. But if you want to, then you can also marvel at a film[…]

There is no shortage of adaptations that suffer from comparisons to their source material, but Uli Edel’s misguided Last Exit to Brooklyn suffers more acutely than most. I’d hate to think that any novel is unfilmable, but perhaps I just l[…]

Grumbleweed Facts for Andrew. I remember nothing about them.[…]

I was about to moan about the number of Saul Bass press releases-cum-articles doing the rounds when I found this voice of reason in, of all places, the Guardian. Title sequences are obviously important, but importing auteurism into this particular fi[…]

The Advert Channel: standard pub ‘what if’ joke comes true. I particularly like the idea that there will be actual adverts inbetween the, um, other adverts.[…]

FT Top 100 Films
59: DEBBIE DOES DALLAS 
  
Anthony Easton says:
 
Debbie Does Dallas is happy. The blondes are happy, the people fucking the blondes are happy, the sunlight is happy, and the green grass is happy. Even with t[…]

Anthony Mann — Preamble I was about to do my first post on Anthony Mann’s noirs, when I came across something startling on the interweb. Mann’s noirs, made as B-pictures in the late 1940s,  are less well known than his Westerns[…]

The Bridge at San Luis Rey
A new film version has been completed and sits in pre-release limbo. Two previous attempts have met indifferent reaction, the first in 1929 (a year after the novel won the Pulitzer Prize) and the second in 1944.
The story […]

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed an advert at the bottom of some of our Haloscan comments boxes. These ads are selected by gnomes working deep in the bowels of Haloscan,Inc. and we have no control over them. But this one caught my eye – &#82[…]