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Category Archives: Film
THE SWIMMER: Burt Lancaster Journeys Upriver Into The Dark Heart of Suburbia
On a warm and beautiful autumn afternoon Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) emerges from the peaceful woods of an upper class Connecticut suburb wearing nothing but a pair of dark swim trunks and dives into the swimming pool of old friends. … Continue reading
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Esther Williams: A Woman Pursued
By Tarquin Mandrake Esther Williams was a star who exploded out of Louis B Mayer’s Warner Brothers studio system in the 1940s. A swimmer who was on course to compete in the Olympics until the Second World War intervened. She … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Film, film studies, Filmmaking, Reviews
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From The Creator of THE TAINT, Drew Bolduc Assembles SCIENCE TEAM!
January 4, 2014 – On the frigid (yet I still believe in global warming) first Saturday of the year I journeyed with my friend Jeff Roll to Richmond’s historic movie house the Byrd Theater to take in a super secret … Continue reading
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The Legendary Mario Bava Invites You to Take a Swim (Clothing Optional) in A BAY OF BLOOD
Let’s face it folks, when it comes to real horror that pulls no punches and takes plenty of chances no one does it better than the Italians. They don’t shy away from the good stuff, and by that I mean … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Horror, Mario Bava
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Overlooking/ Looking Over Huston
When director John Huston died in 1987 during post-production of James Joyce’s The Dead, filmdom lost its last reigning monarch—for Huston was the last of the Hollywood lions, harking from D. W. Griffith through Howard Hawks and John Ford. But if … Continue reading
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The Brad Pitt-Andrew Dominik Double Feature Picture Show
It seems Andrew Dominik’s two Brad Pitt films, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, are destined to be no more than footnotes in American film culture. It’s a bummer. Jesse James made … Continue reading
Deep In the Woods : On the Set of Jim Stramel’s ‘Reviled’
What better way to usher in the Halloween season than to take you on the set of Jim Stramel’s upcoming zombie pit fighting web series “Reviled”. It took me over an hour to get to the remote set in the … Continue reading
Defenders of Freedom, Real and Imagined
Lincoln and Skyfall. Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg. There is a moment, a very small moment in Steven Spielberg’s very large film Lincoln that I found to be the most telling portrait of the somewhat mysterious 16th president. Lincoln is loafing–and that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, James Bond, Lincoln, Sam Mendes, Skyfall, Steven Spielberg
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Your No Nonsense Night at the Movies
Howard Hawks, perhaps the most reliable director of filmed entertainment in American history, once said his goal was to make every movie have “three great scenes and no bad ones.” I swear that most of the crap from this summer … Continue reading
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James River Film Journal 