Do you love noir books and films?
If you haven't read NIGHTMARE ALLEY yet, it's on sale today in Kindle format ($1.99).
It's the edition with the intro by Nick Tosches.
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THE BRUTALIST (2025)
RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.
"I don't do ordinary very well": Memories of a lovely afternoon spent with the late Mr. Stamp. A good excuse to join me at my FB page, where I've posted it, or -- much as I hate to give them clicks -- to find it at one of the Newhouse papers that used to pay me. www.oregonlive.com/movies/2013/...
Interview books frequently match interviews with interviewees who are argumentative, impenetrable, or windbags. I'm delighted to report that Cinema Then and Now includes none of that, but is instead a wonderful conversation about movies. My review:
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Continuing my dive into TRUE DETECTIVE S1 with E2: "Seeing Things" andywolverton.substack.com/p/true-detec...
Michael Curtiz's opening shots of 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) does a nifty job of explaining the basis of the film's title, taken from book by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941.
A very Richard Scarry “Busy Busy”-esque scene showing how a Godzilla movie traditionally gets made. From a 1966 movie pamphlet.
My exploration of the first episode of TRUE DETECTIVE Season One:
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a sleeping gray tabby cat laying on her side on an ottoman. her paw is covering her face
it’s been a hard day’s nap,
she’s been workin’ like a cat
What did you read in July? Good, bad, or did not finish (and I had a couple of those), let me know!
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Stamp was in a 1968 anthology, Spirits of the Dead, that was inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. But when I look at this picture of him, it seems like somebody should have actually cast him AS Poe.
you’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?
IYKYK
Happy Dylan Goes Electric Day to all those who celebrate
Times are crazy, so we need to celebrate the things that are worth celebrating. Get together, talk, and enjoy those good things. andywolverton.substack.com/p/you-need-t...
Glenn Erickson of CineSavant writes that Elia Kazan’s angsty teen drama Splendor in the Grass has only improved over time. For Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty’s Deanie and Bud, sexual suppression leads to emotional hysteria circa 1929.
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I was recently watching a Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour DVD set, in which a latter day Tommy Smothers talked about his correspondence with LBJ, and then showed the letter he got in return. The president had NO problem with being mocked by them, and CBS (them again) still pulled the plug the show.
A thumbs up from Robert Duvall with his pups.
My Fantastic Four
Hi.
It was a suspense film with Ingrid Bergman that was a remake of an earlier British film.
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Been spending a lot of time the past few days mulling over films my mom really enjoyed; many that we rewatched repeatedly over the years, others that she forced me to watch at a young age and even more that we discovered together in the cinema in the 90s and 00s
She loved to share, so please enjoy
Yes, I know it's been more than 10 years since the first season of TRUE DETECTIVE aired, but I'm just experiencing it. The show will not be for everyone, but read this spoiler-free introduction and see if it's something you'd like to explore with me: andywolverton.substack.com/p/exploring-...
Bogart looking half man, half beast, teeth bared
Just watched In a Lonely Place again, mainly to see Gloria Grahame. But it's Bogie's film really isn't it? In a special feature, Curtis Hanson remarks on how ugly he is in it. It's real inner ugliness too. Amazing work. They lit him like a horror movie monster here, but they really didn't need to
After a long break in my #FilmNoir on #PhysicalMedia posts, I'm back with the third in my Collectors series:
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Although we've got nearly half of 2025 to go, World Noir Vol. 3 from Radiance Films may be the best film noir boxset of the year. My review: andywolverton.substack.com/p/world-noir...
Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Love.
Watched LOVE (1927). Geez, I liked that. #BOTD John Gilbert as Vronsky, Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina. Gorgeous print on archive dot org has recording of live score with audience reactions, a little laughter, mostly at Gilbert’s ardor, but also big applause at end.
On this day in 1906, Leroy “Satchel” Paige was born in Mobile, AL. Here’s my painting of him with the Kansas City Monarchs in September of 1941. Want a giclée (fine art print)? Starting now, they’ll be available for only a week, and then gone forever!!
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