Q: If Cate Blanchett were to win the Oscar for her portrayal of Elizabeth I at next year's Oscars, would Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II give her the Oscar? And do you think the actual Queen Elizabeth will be watching…
View image Gloria Grahame in Fritz Lang's "The Big Heat." A film noir woodcut by Guy Budziak. "The term itself is vague. For German Expressionism was less a unified style than an attitude, a state of mind." -Horst Uhr, introduction,…
From Jordan Gray, Hays, KS:
View image Figure #1. View image Figure #2. (My final contribution to the Close-Up Blog-a-thon at the House Next Door, which just wrapped.) Warning: This post (and the short film montage/hommage I put together to accompany it, above) may contain…
Words are linear. Movies not so much, even though they are encoded onto strips of celluloid or served up as streams or spirals of digital bits.
View image View image View image (December 7, 2007: Re-submitted as a contribution to the 'Short Film Week' Blog-a-thon co-hosted by Only the Cinema and Culture Snob.) (This is another contribution to the Close-Up Blog-a-thon at the House Next Door.)…
View image Flushing away evidence of guilt in the toilet. A big drain. View image Shower. Head. Imagine the "Psycho" shower scene without Marion Crane or Mrs. Bates. Alfred Hitchcock's (and Saul Bass's) rapid-cut sequence is renowned for its use…
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