... From Bob Harris (who did the recent restoration of REAR WINDOW...and who has the Paramount production records), the shooting ratio was approximately 11 to...
Subject: NYTimes: When Movies Are a Way of Life When Movies Are a Way of Life New York Times May 16, 2003 By STEPHEN HOLDEN Anyone who ever binged and saw...
... You know, I find this story of Roberta and her ticket more mystifying with each repetition. In the first place, I've never seen "ushers" at MoMA, male or...
The new still on Jaime's site from "Two Lane Blacktop" prompts me to ask: what's the auteurist consensus on Monte Hellman these days? Even with championing...
... Just thought I'd point out that Roberta has always been more than welcome at the American Museum of the Moving Image even though she threw a water bottle...
... The auteurist crowd in LA (of which Hellman was one, actually) was very high on his films - many thought of him as the best American director of the 70s....
What a bizarre question! Of course he's an auteur, and a very fine one. He's been sidelined by horrible luck since Better Watch Out, but everything he has...
... Oh, I wasn't asking if he was an auteur - of course he is and I love, love, love what I've seen of his. I was simply curious if others felt that he's a ...
Addendum: Perusing the Amazon page on the Brad Stevens book Bill recommended, I came across this quote by MH in the book description: "Once I made my first...
I try not to pay too much attention to what the consensus among "auteurists" is, but rather to what specific people might think, and their reasons, as well as...
... I think that's a sensible approach, Fred. Certainly I value what you or Dan or Bill (etc) think over any large, ill-defined group of people, though I am ...
I'm the Hellman fanatic who swears by Better Watch Out. I wrote the presskit and a lengthy L*c*nian critique in Cahiers. Monte is quite proud of it - I think I...
Is there any sort of definitive date when dissolves were abandoned as scene-to-scene transitions in Hollywood films? I'm none too knowledgable about the...
Mike Grost here in Detroit - Monte Hellman I too would vote a resounding Yes to Hellman being an auteur. He has a special personal brand of vigorous...
Curtis Harrington has rich, Sternberg-like dissolves in Games (1967). He also included them in the director's initial version of "What's the Matter With...
... I don't have the answer to this, but I think Kubrick must stand as one of the last Hollywood directors to use dissolves right up until the end. "Eyes Wide...
... Right on! And in MOROCCO - my favorite dissolve ever is that shot of Amy Jolly walking back down the row of hospital beds, smiling, with the hospital...
... I agree with your assessment of the Beckett directors, but I was startled at how much I liked Mamet's CATASTROPHE, though I never liked Mamet much...
... Maybe it's a separate issue, but I wonder if the question could be extended to fades -- which at a certain point in time seemed to be routinely replaced by...
It's taken me a while even to acknowledge Clint Eastwood as a film artist, primarily due to his image in the westerns, the Dirty Harry movies, etc. After he...
I feel like I need to point out - more for the benefit of skeptical non-auteurists reading the messages here - that the observations Zach made w/BLOOD WORK can...
... Thanks! I'd like to write more about Eastwood, maybe it'll have to wait until MYSTIC RIVER, though. I just hope it doesn't break my phenomenal track...
... I'd say all signs point to a success: the teaser trailer gives me a positive feeling (it sounds more ambitious than his last few films, but not in a...
Arzner's early talkie, "The Wild Party" (1929), is an entertaining look at coed flappers. Arzner reportedly invented the "fish-pole mike" for this film, having...
... That was exactly my impression of the teaser trailer as well. I know that Zach postulated a while back that it could be his "7 Women" (expanding on the ...
... Wow! That's quite a ringing endorsement, Bill. And, what do you know, one can get a video of "Better Watch Out" used for under $5 from Amazon; I just ...
... I just saw "What's the Matter With Helen?" recently and was duly impressed, though obviously I'd be greatly interested in Harrington's original cut. This...
Welles actually experiments with a reversal of traditional syntax in Kane, using dissolves for short periods of time elapsed (the shots of Thompson walking the...
It is many years since I saw The Wild Party at MOMA -- I think it was in the Paramount Series, so we're talking something like 1975 or so -- but what I...
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