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Watching Vertigo on Blu-ray is a religious experience. Man, what a weird (and great) film. The Blu-ray edition belongs in every civilized home. Click on the image to enlarge.
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SO LONG, RAY
Thanks for this and so much more. Click on the image to enlarge.
AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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IT ONLY HAPPENS WHEN I DANCE WITH YOU
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HOLDING THE REINS
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TEN THOUSAND CATTLE STRAYING
This song, often collected in anthologies of cowboy ballads and identified as traditional, was in fact written by Owen Wister for the 1904 stage adaptation of his novel The Virginian. Wister, a classically trained musician, had seriously considered becoming a … Continue reading
THE VIRGINIAN
It would not be an exaggeration to call The Virginian, by Owen Wister, from 1902, the most important work of Western fiction ever published. It almost singehandedly made the Western novel respectable and almost singlehandedly created the modern myth of … Continue reading
IT’S HERE
The Quiet Man Blu-ray. Click on the image to enlarge.
OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS
Loving B-Westerns is a kind of disease, and probably incurable. It’s not the worst malady in the world to suffer from, however — B-Westerns have a good deal of redeeming aesthetic value. The acting in them is often indifferent, the … Continue reading
ESSENTIAL
Forty years (!) after its release, after a deluge of explicit pornography has washed across and nearly drowned our culture, this film has lost its capacity to shock as it once shocked, with its sexual frankness embedded a well-made film … Continue reading
THE QUIET MAN
Coming to Blu-ray next week — impetuous, Homeric . . . Click on the image to enlarge.
NATALIE
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JANE
A few nights ago I watched Cary Fukunaga’s 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s not a perfect film but it’s brilliant in many ways, and a number of them derive from the script … Continue reading
VACATION SLIDESHOW
The vacation slideshow was a familiar social ritual in middle-class American homes in the 1950s and 1960s. It was often considered something of an ordeal, with friends and neighbors expected too “ooh” and “ah” at a slide of a spectacular … Continue reading
DICKWAD
Dickwad and prominent Christian spokesperson Mike Huckabee has weighed in on the Sandy Hook murders. He said, “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised … Continue reading