Billy Wilder Speaks
While on a plane recently I watched Billy Wilder Speaks (2006), a film by Volker Schlöndorff. My intention was to find one of the great director’s films to dedicate a post to in celebration of what...
View ArticleChildren in Films: The boy Winslow
George Karl Wentzlaff was born on May 3, 1946 in Los Angeles, California. He took (or was given) the stage name George Winslow and was billed as George “Foghorn” Winslow is several of the feature...
View ArticleMarilyn – a career in pictures
It’s difficult to fathom an 87-year-old Marilyn Monroe. The legend would have celebrated that birthday today, June 1st. To honor the occasion I am re-posting the following tribute, which I originally...
View ArticleFritz Lang’s, CLASH BY NIGHT
Waves crash violently, splitting against rocks, bringing turbulence onto the shore. There is a palpable unease as the credits role. It is this; a foreshadowing that opens Fritz Lang’s, Clash by...
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