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- Classic Film Reviews: Sudden Fear (1952)Originally posted on Anybody Got A Match?:
source: RKO Pictures Poor Joan Crawford, she can never seem to catch a break. She meets a handsome younger man and they get married. All is going well until he plots to murder you and then run away with your fortune with his younger, more daring… - Late Nights, Early Flights, Green Tea, and Lisa Carol FremontOriginally posted on Anybody Got A Match?:
esource: Paramount Pictures I adore TCM. Thanks to Ted Turner‘s genius, thousands of tasty morsels from the wonderful world of classic cinema are merely a couple of remote clicks away. Despite the abundance of good that TCM provides to the starving film fan, there is a downside to having only… - A series of posts examining briefly each of the essays in the collectionHaunted by Haunted by Vertigo Haunted by Vertigo: Then and NowEdited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal MartinJohn Libbey PublishingIndiana University Press Haunted by Vertigo is a first rate collection of essays sampling each of the areas that appear to have the most modern interest currently in Hitchcock’s Vertigo. I imagine every reader will […]
- Making the long short list for greatest movie posters of all time28. Vertigo (1958) Although it might now be seen as a predictable addition to a film student’s first flat, there’s a reason why it’s become the most iconic Hitchcock poster out there. It’s really really cool. It’s the second Saul Bass designed poster on the list, after Anatomy of a Murder, and typifies […]
- Year of the RatYear of the Rat https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/year-of-the-rat/ — Read on dcairns.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/year-of-the-rat/ This is a must-read. I am snowmobile kinescope grey with envy and look forward to seeing this soon.
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