Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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The multi-talented Gordon Parks made his directorial debut at age 57 with 1969's The Learning Tree based on his semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. This touching coming of age story was previously lauded, along with its creator Parks, in an article entitled: Exploring the Artefacts #5: The Alchemist. Included are some clips of Parks' music compositions for The Learning Tree and Shaft's Big Score.
(From left) Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke
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Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Tomorrow on TCM:
In my review of Casablanca(1942), I made some criticism regarding its emotionally underwhelming Parisian flashback. Prior to this film, however, Casablanca's producer Hal Wallis and one of its contributing writers, Casey Robinson, made Now, Voyager (1942)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, January 3, 2025
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1945’s Spellbound directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is another film whereby I’ve previously promoted its soundtrack and have added a few words regarding the film itself here.
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, December 27, 2024
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When affairs of the heart are so well integrated with thoughts of murder as they are in the Humphrey Bogart starrer Conflict (1945), we have the makings of an exceptional film noir. This
