Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
The early sound period has always fascinated me, especially in how studios suddenly needed to find ways to release films in different markets with different languages when changing out intertitles had been enough since the advent of the medium. One thing they did was simply film multiple versions of a movie. This is probably the… Continue reading Drácula
The first official cinematic adaptation of Bram Stoker's seminal novel (the tales of the illegality of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu tickle me), Tod Browning's Dracula is a handsomely produced gothic romance that manages to capture enough of the novel to retain a semblance of a story while removing any kind of emotional investment. At only 74-minutes… Continue reading Dracula
#18 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Fritz Lang made a quality John Ford film in Western Union, and then he made a quality Alfred Hitchcock film in Man Hunt. Echoing Hitchcock's later British period like The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and his early Hollywood film Foreign Correspondent (of which… Continue reading Man Hunt
*note: The Return of Frank James is a sequel to this film by Henry King, so I decided to watch it ahead of Fritz Lang's film. I didn't imagine that I would miss anything important story-wise, but I thought it would mostly be interesting to compare and contrast.* Let's just imagine that this film is… Continue reading Jesse James
#25 in my ranking of Fritz Lang's filmography. Fritz Lang was brought in late to this project after it had languished for a few years for a few reasons, invited to the project by his female star of his last couple of movies, Sylvia Sidney. I wonder if he had had more time with the… Continue reading You and Me
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