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Comment on The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of May 31 by Editor

Editor — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:01:19 +0000

Ms. Smith has returned to the article to make proper attribution to her sources. I’ve been told by the editor that she was quite chagrined to realize that, working from old notes, she had failed to do so the first time.

Comment on Social breakdown: When civil order crumbles and survival of the fittest takes over by Craig summers

Craig summers — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:45:53 +0000

One of the best and most powerful adaptions of a book, in some ways better(graphic)
A timeless movie. This fall into chaos and bestialty goes on around the world constantly: Afghanistan, air aqua, Chrcnya, Lebanon, Syria, the list goes on and on. NEVER AGAIN?!? always again

Comment on The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of May 31 by aysie

aysie — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:45:55 +0000

It’s nice to see that Imogen Smith credits Damien Love’s book on Mitchum as being among the “other sources” for some of her quotes, but I would politely suggest her essay is leaning on his work a little heavier than that. Compare this from her most recent post concerning the movie Out Of The Past,

…” This is a movie that doesn’t just have a witty script with a lot of good lines but, like certain classic jazz albums, a distinctive, coherent sound. (All the more impressive since the script was meddled over by many cooks, including original author Daniel Mainwaring and uncredited Frank Fenton.) Mitchum’s voice is the lead instrument, and the sound of the film is his sound, cool and weary and knowing. It’s one long improvisation on the theme of disillusionment, full of blue notes and hot riffs…”

With this from Love’s chapter on the same film:

“…: in the way Miles Davis’s album forever fixed him in many minds, this is Mitchum’s own Kind of Blue, a defining artifact, his unhurried playing filled with melancholic blue notes, pauses, and scurrying flashes of flip hipster wit with which he would always be associated… it is the way the film sounds so good, Mitchum’s narration, cosying into memories that warm and disgust him, that raises it… With a fluent, musical burr, the way he handles the good pulp poetry he’s given to speak rests squarely on his own facility with crafting words – this is a writerly narration, his inflections and phrasing adding subtly to the lines”

I could go on, at length, with other examples from throughout “Smith’s” chiseler pieces, but I mean. Really?

Comment on Remembering Wayne Karrfalt by Valerie Milano

Valerie Milano — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:20:28 +0000

Thinking of you, Wayne, on this day of your birth. Save a place for me up there.

Comment on Silents Please! The San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2009 (Part 1) by In the Vaults #7: Lady of the Pavements (1929) | Movies, Silently

In the Vaults #7: Lady of the Pavements (1929) | Movies, Silently — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:36:07 +0000

[...] Institute. Most of the sound discs are missing and presumed lost. The film was shown at the 2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival, to name just one event, but has not been received a legitimate release to the general [...]

Comment on Basil Dearden’s London Underground by futurestar

futurestar — Sun, 05 May 2013 06:30:05 +0000

I started work as a teenager at the Fine Art Theatre in Snider Plaza by SMU in Highland Park area of Dallas, TX. It was 1966 on and the 1st paycheck I ever got. I remember a lot of of foreign films with subtitles and Antonioni’s Blow Up.
the Basil Dearden’s London Underground would have fit right in. I had the film bit from early on sitting at the guest table of John Wayne and his just completed Alamo movie in early 1961 at a brunch at the historic Alamo in downtown San Antonio. why did my grandparents have comps and access plus for me and my brother I will never know but I have had a thirst for left of center film my entire life and managed to find a specialty call to allow me to work in the slave houses of production while I scurry up and purchase such cool box set as Basil Deaden and his 4 cool films offered here from Eclipse. each is as cool as it gets and don’t worry about approval from the sistern and brethren. they will not approve but I do 100% with a rocket. find, consume, enjoy, and tell others. soon.

Comment on MOD Movies: The Andy Hardy Collection, Volume 1 by Editor

Editor — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:17:33 +0000

The folks at the Warner Archive have said that a Volume 2 is in the works, but they have not set a date on it nor have they made any official announcement.

Comment on MOD Movies: The Andy Hardy Collection, Volume 1 by Carolyn Erfurth

Carolyn Erfurth — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:05:04 +0000

Was there a volume 2 on the Andy Hardy series ?

Comment on “A privilege to work in films”: Sam Peckinpah among friends by Straw Dogs: Animal Behavior

Straw Dogs: Animal Behavior — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:54:15 +0000

[...] Last word: “We had a very bad book. I wrote the script with David Goodman and then [Daniel] Melnick and David went off by themselves without my knowledge and wrote a completely different script, and Marty Baum blew his top about that and took it to London and said, ‘Did you know anything about this?’ I said No. He said, ‘Write the script.’ So I wrote the script. I had to sign a paper with Mr. Baum stating that I would have a happy ending. But once I’d cast Susan George, I knew that was impossible. I played it down to the end until Dustin Hoffman came up to me and said, ‘We can’t make this ending,’ and I said, ‘Well how about this one, Dustin?’… So it’s always a gamble and it’s always a fight and it’s adventure!” (Peckinpah, Movietone News) [...]

Comment on Seattle Screens: How to say ‘No’ with a smile by The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of March 29 - Parallax View | Parallax View

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:56:52 +0000

[...] Seattle screenings and cinema events for the week are surveyed at Parallax View here. [...]