REDISCOVERING ‘THREE GODFATHERS’
There aren’t many stories that have been filmed five separate times—not counting homages and ripoffs—and even fewer that attracted…
CARY GRANT: A BRILLIANT…
CARY GRANT: A BRILLIANT DISGUISE by Scott Eyman (Simon and Schuster) Over the years, it’s been said, people told…
NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS…
PHANTOM LADY: HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER JOAN HARRISON, THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN BEHIND HITCHCOCK by Christina Lane (Chicago Review Press) Just…
NEW AND NOTABLE FILM…
As always, there are more film books being published than there is time to read them, but I hope…
CRITERION OFFERS MODERN CLASSICS
I tend to associate the Criterion Collection with exemplary releases of classics from Hollywood (like the recent Blu-ray of…
REDISCOVERING THE FIRST EPIC…
Before John Ford’s The Iron Horse, before William S. Hart’s Tumbleweeds or Raoul Walsh’s The Big Trail there was The Covered Wagon in 1923. It was…
FROM ‘STAGECOACH’ TO ‘SPARTACUS’
When I participated in the second annual Coronado Island Film Festival in November I didn’t expect to come upon…
