The Birds
Camille Paglia, The Birds. British Film Institute: BFI Film Classics. 1998 ISBN 0851706517 104pp A$19.95 (Pb) Evan Hunter, Me and Hitch. Faber & Faber. 1997 ISBN 0571193064 96pp US$12.95(Pb) Uploaded 1 July 1999…
Joe Dante’s American Apocalypse
Uploaded 1 December 2001 In the jargon of Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye, Joe Dante is a low-norm satirist. (High-norm satire, of which Horace would be a good example, is…
Once Upon a Time in America
Adrian Martin, Once Upon a Time in America BFI Publishing, 1998 ISBN 0-85170-544-8 Uploaded 15 September 1998 Adrian Martin's monograph on Sergio Leone's last and greatest film is one of…
Adorno on Aldrich
Uploaded 30 June 2000 When Theodor Adorno happened to see one of Robert Aldrich's episodes of Four Star Playhouse (USA 1952-1956) about Willy Dante, gambler/club owner in the lineage of Bogart's Rick…
Sodom and Gomorrah The Auteur and the Potboiler
Uploaded 30 June 2000 When Robert Aldrich undertook to make a biblical epic in 1961, he had enough artistic successes under his belt (Kiss Me Deadly, USA 1955, Vera Cruz, USA 1954, The…