I’ve written before about my idea of how to best adapt a book into a movie: throw out the book and make a good movie (as Howard Hawks did, for example, when adapting To Have and Have Not, a mediocre … Continue reading
Well, I saw Avengers Endgame. It went against my rule not to see movies which are sequels to movies that I didn’t like, but it was about to leave theaters, and it was three hours of air conditioning (it was … Continue reading
1) Klaus over at Ming Movie Reviews has reviewed The Other Side of the Wind, and also They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (a documentary about the making of The Other Side of the Wind). Very interesting to get insights … Continue reading
I just saw The Other Side of the Wind. I will review it eventually, I’m sure, to add to my Orson Welles movie reviews. Not yet — definitely not yet. It’s a lot to process all at once, partly because … Continue reading
In 1975, the American Film Institute gave Orson Welles its Lifetime Achievement Award. I remember watching the ceremony on television — I was a huge fan of his even back then. It’s always bittersweet to get a lifetime achievement award, … Continue reading
If you’re the sort of person who worries about that sort of thing, the timeline of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is really tangled. For example, when was Watson married and how many times was he married? Internal evidence is not … Continue reading