NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS…
GIANT LOVE by Julie Gilbert (Pantheon) One doesn’t read most film books to savor the prose. This one stands…
MARY PICKFORD’S ‘FAILURE,’ BUSTER…
Talk about fun! Every year the San Francisco Silent Film Festival offers rarities, restorations, and surprises from around the…
NEW AND NOTABLE FILM…
TRAVELS WITH WALT DISNEY: A PHOTOGRAPHIC VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD by Jeff Kurtti (Disney Editions) I’m a sucker for…
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA SALUTES…
It isn’t often that Hollywood studios take the time and trouble to celebrate their history. That’s why Thursday’s event at Paramount…
FAREWELL TO DAN TALBOT,…
I grew up at the New Yorker Theater. As I succumbed to the lure of film history in my…
78/52: EXPLORING HITCHCOCK’S SHOWER…
How many movie sequences have taken on the mythic power of the shower scene in Psycho? Few, if any, I…
CHAPLIN BOOKS—NEW AND OLD
Charlie Chaplin is my hero, and I’ve read an awful lot about him over the years. Imagine how excited…
