Posted in British Film, Directors, Stars, Style, War films on May 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
The 26th of May is something of a red-letter day in the DVD release calendar. Whether this is because of a conjunction of the planets in the far-distant heavens or some sinister international conspiracy of art-house DVD labels, I don’t know. But whatever the reason, there’s a whole bunch of films released that day which […]
Posted in British Film, Directors, Stars, Style on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Given that relations between Britain and Russia hover somewhere distantly below freezing point at the moment, I wonder how the Russians received Eastern Promises. It’s fair to say that this (ostensibly British) thriller doesn’t show its Russian villains in an entirely positive light. I wouldn’t want to be the projectionist who shows it to Vladimir […]
Posted in Directors, Hollywood, Stars, Style on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘style’ recently, not least because I’ve just re-watched six of the seven films Josef von Sternberg made with Marlene Dietrich. As you might have read in my previous post, they’ve overwhelmed me somewhat: you don’t write posts that long unless you’re besotted.
Sad to say, I’m not finished yet. That […]
Posted in Directors, Hollywood, Stars, Style on Dec 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been going through the 18 disc Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection. It’s a big box filled – as I suspect you’ve already guessed – with 18 films which feature Marlene Dietrich in some capacity. At the time of writing, MovieMail are offering it for about sixty notes, which makes it the bargain of the […]