A Hell of a Shoot

I was fortunate enough to see a documentary about an amazing film in a Parisian theater when it was released back in 2009.An out of the ordinary film, imagined by an out of the ordinary man in out of the ordinary circumstances. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno/L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot Is the story of an unfinished film and its making which would be an epic adventure in itself even if the script had been a bad one. However, through what is left...

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Movie Moguls

Today, I'd like to share a book not unrelated to my subject. I bought "Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck". A book gathering memos from the head of 20th Century Fox for years (during the Golden Age) at a time when these men had complete control over their productions. In the same styme only with a pronounced focus on Gone With The Wind, I loved the book of memos from David O. Selznick. It's fascinating to find the personalities of these men through the lines,...

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Heigh Ho

You think you know everything about the movies of your childhood. We saw them 40 times because our parents would put the cassette tape in the VCR for us so that we would leave them alone. If you are wondering "What is a VCR?", You missed the age of stone. The ones that make you appreciate extra features on Blu-ray. Once upon a time I had to wait for years and sweat through hours of mixing three VHS copies with 2 VCRs to get a tape that would approach...

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