Category: winning screenplays

Directed by H.C. Potter Screenplay by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr, from the play by Hella Wuolijoki Starring Loretta Young, Joseph Cotton, Ethyl Barrymore, and Charles Bickford Here’s a new thing: let’s start this entry by just carrying on the discussion from the last entry on Mogambo. But don’t you worry – I promise it […]… Continue reading 52 Before 62 — #48 The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) — The Last Blog Name On Earth

Directed by Billy Wilder Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Bracket, based upon the play “Connie Goes Home”, by Edward Childs Carpenter, and the story “Sunny Goes Home” by Fannie Kilbourne Starring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland If I asked you – and I mean you specifically – to name Billy Wilder’s greatest films, chances […]… Continue reading 52 Before 62 — #49 The Major and the Minor (1942) — The Last Blog Name On Earth

Directed by Mervyn Leroy Screenplay by Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee, based upon the novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett Starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Rico (Edward G. Robinson) is a criminal with ambition. Too bad he’s small-timing it out in the sticks, making ends meet robbing gas […]… Continue reading 52 Before 62 — #50 Little Caesar (1931) — The Last Blog Name On Earth

Some of us will be questioning our lives as to the resolutions we took in January, if we’ve been able to keep to it. We all know that their are so many things we wish to stop doing, but often times we see ourselves doing them. Such things has become an addiction. One of such […]… Continue reading Please do these five(5) things immediately, if you want to stop watching pornography [Opinion] — hitsupdate.com

Many years ago, I took my then-boyfriend to the zoo for his birthday. It wasn’t just the zoo though. It was Roar and Snore, an overnight behind-the-scenes zoo experience. The Sydney skyline twinkled on the other side of the bay. Our evening began with crocodiles and crudites, as we shared a few drinks with the […]… Continue reading Giraffes and The Mystery of Happiness — Snippets & Glimpses

There’s growth all around “Pain & Glory” (2019), personal, universal, and out with the film itself, and while there is an overarching narrative, Pedro Almodóvar’s film is as equally about his self journey as it is Salvador Mallo’s back and forth throughout life. A story of pleasure, it is Almodóvar after all, this film accounts… Continue reading Pride Month, Retrospective Review: Pain & Glory (Dolor y gloria) — In Their Own League

Nearly two decades since its release, “Mulholland Drive” (2001) remains a Rubik’s cube of plot twists and turns. No matter how many contradictory analyses have attempted to explain what it is actually about, there is no arguing that it is a masterful depiction of LGBTQ love and desire. All the quirks and oddities of a… Continue reading Pride Month, Retrospective Review: Mulholland Drive — In Their Own League

Featured image from Killzone 2. I’ve noticed with delight that there is an increasingly large selection of Hong Kong films available to stream in the US. Here’s a roundup of stuff that is worth checking out (note: there is also a lot of Wong Kar-wai, but criterion is restoring and releasing his whole filmography, so […]… Continue reading Hong Kong Cinema on Streaming — STROHLTOPIA

Unveiled are the sounds that lay dormant in “Blue Velvet” the entire duration of the scene, terrible sounds distorted by melody. via The Horror of Pop Songs: Psychological and Historical Consonance in David Lynch — Alex Hertz Design