author: david thomson

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Completely Updated and Expanded

... Bee Movie ( 07 , Steve Hickner and Simon J. Smith ) ; Leatherheads ( 08 ... the Stone . 1985 : Back to the Future , 1988 : Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?. 1989 ... script for 1941 ( 79 , Steven Spielberg , who was their early patron ) . It ...

The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 5Th Ed

... Joseph Newman); Angels in the Outfield (51, Clarence Brown); When in Rome (52, Brown). He was much more touching as the naïve fisherman husband of Barbara Stanwyck in Clash by Night (52, Fritz Lang), a sign that once his energies were ...

The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 6th Edition

... horror and positivism that starred Ava Gardner and came froma Robert Burns poem ... Fright Night(85, Tom Holland); Dead of Winter (87, Arthur Penn); Overboard (87, Garry Marshall), on which he was alsoexecutive producer; Fright Night:Part 2 ...

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition

... Tinto Brass); as one of the adults playing children in Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (79, Brian Gibson); and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (80, Piers Haggard). Then she was outstandingly sinister, centuries , as the ...

"Have You Seen . . . ?"

David Thomson. Se7en ( 1995 ) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ( 1954 ). n a ... seven days to go until his retirement , and a much younger cop , David Mills ... script ( by Andrew Kevin Walker ) ; he has designed the mise - en - scène ...

'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)

... Film may be—even in 1900—an infant capitalist venture, set to make a fortune out of law and order. But somehow it knows and wants to reach out to our wildness, too—the thing that is burning in the dark. In The Story of Film, Mark Cousins ...

The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies

... there were uneven—The Flame of New Orleans (1941), IMarried a Witch (1942), It Happened Tomorrow (1944), And Then There Were None ... script of Les Belles de Nuit (1952), he wrote a foreword that expressed his ... script (based on 134 THEBIG ...

The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder

... (Lee Marvin), is betrayed on the abandoned island of Alcatraz after a robbery and seemingly left for dead. But he comes back from the dead, like a sleepwalker, and makes his way through the members of the syndicate in search of his ...

The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us

... bored lion leaves one carcass for another. The film carries her all the way from the authority figure of Dr. Schon to.

A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors

... analysis' vague, or gentle, because Renoir was never dogmatic about it, and may never have had it as a textbook ... Luncheon of the Boating Party' (1882), where fifteen or so people are caught in a casual situation, without seeming ...

Murder and the Movies

... Mysterious Affair at Styles, 64 Moore, Lillian, 211–15 moors murders, 60, 158–59 Moreau, Jeanne, 118, 156, 157 Morgan, Peter, 158–59 Morton, Samantha, 158–59 Moschine, Gastone, 204 Moscone, George, 11 mother! 203 Mousetrap, The, 61 movie ...

Handy Book of the Flower-garden: Being Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in Flower-gardens All the Year Round

... list of , 238 ; tree or Moutan , 239 et seq . Pansies , cultivation of , 113 ; their culture for spring , 291 . Paul ... lists of these , and their culture , 253 et seq . Stachys lanata , 108 . Stocks , recent improvements in , 20 ; In ...

Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire

... anus, is he screwing a boy as well as outraging his nymph? Why is he drawn to anal intercourse and its air of mastery? Is that a feeling for raw power, alonging for perversion? Or is it some echo of homosexuality in the memory? These ...

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