A blog formerly known as Bookishness / By Charles Matthews
"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Body Double (Brian De Palma, 1984)
Cast: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd, Dennis Franz, David Haskell. Screenplay: Brian De Palma, Robert J. Avrech. Cinematography: Stephen H. Burum. Production design: Ida Random. Film editing: Gerald B. Greenberg, Ira Pankow. Music: Pino Donaggio.
The Stepford Wives (Frank Oz, 2004)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Dylan Hartigan, Faith Hill, Fallon Brooking, Matt Malloy. Screenplay: Paul Rudnick, based on a novel by Ira Levin. Cinematography: Rob Hahn. Production design: Jackson De Govia. Film editing: Jay Rabinowitz. Music: David Arnold.
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Don't Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker, 1952)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney, Lurene Tuttle, Elisha Cook Jr., Jim Backus, Verna Felton, Willis Bouchey, Don Beddoe. Screenplay: Daniel Taradash, based on a novel by Charlotte Armstrong. Cinematography: Lucien Ballard. Art direction: Richard Irvine, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: George A. Gittens.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021)
Cast: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Louise Chevillotte, Hervé Pierre, Clotilde Courau, David Clavel, Guillaine Londez. Screenplay: David Birke, Paul Verhoeven, based on a book by Judith C. Brown. Cinematography: Jeanne Lapoirie. Production design: Kaia Wyszkop. Film editing: Job ter Burg. Music: Anne Dudley.
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