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Bookmarks for July 11th through July 17th

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I contributed two short reviews to this post detailing Flickchart’s Top Ten films of 1939 – a good year of cinema by any gauge, and maybe one of the best. I got to do The Roaring Twenties and The Women (which is not one of Flickchart’s Top Ten, but is in my own all-time Top Ten). The rest of the mini-reviews are also really good!

Top Ten Films of 1939
September 9, 2019 Jandy Leave a comment
Many of my classic film blogger buddies are already at TCM Film Fest RIGHT NOW – I won’t be able to get there until Friday night, but in the meantime, here’s my preview post at Flickchart that runs down some of the films easily available to watch at home if you’re not able to go to the fest, and some films that aren’t easily available at all to whet your interest in making it to the fest next year. Hope to see you this year or a future one!

Elsewhere: TCM Film Fest 2017
April 6, 2017 Jandy Leave a comment

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Okay, so I produced this for my work (collaboration with my student worker – she did the rough cut and some of the b-roll and I added a lot more b-roll and some finishing touches), and I don’t usually post about my work but this one is such a cool story and has a movie tie-in.

USC video…with a movie tie-in
June 24, 2019 Jandy Leave a comment
What a great and varied line-up coming to TCM in July! As a side-note, I would like a job editing these promos please, kthxbai.

TCM in July
June 24, 2019 Jandy Leave a comment

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There actually are a couple of Jane Austen card and role-playing games. I’d be happy to play any of the above. :)

Jane Austen Boardgame
September 3, 2019 Jandy Leave a comment
Great infographic from BFI, and very relevant for those of us nearing the end of the TCM/Ball State online film noir course. Look for more posts from me about that course and the films I’ve watched for it. Click through to see the full (very long, very worthwhile) infographic.

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What Makes a Film Noir?
July 22, 2015 Jandy Leave a comment

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“The demand for ‘originality’ – with the implication that the reminiscence of other writers is a sin against originality and a defect in the work – is a recent one and would have seemed quite ludicrous to poets of the Augustan Age, or of Shakespeare’s time. The traditional view is that each new work should be a fresh focus of power through which former streams of beauty, emotion, and reflection are directed. This view is adopted, and perhaps carried to excess, by writers like T.S. Eliot, some of whose poems are a close web of quotations and adaptations, chosen for their associative value; or like James Joyce, who makes great use of the associative value of sounds and syllables. The criterion is, not whether the associations are called up, but whether the spirits invoked by this kind of verbal incantation are charged with personal power by the magician who speeds them about their new business.”

Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker

Dorothy Sayers on originality
July 26, 2019 Jandy Leave a comment
“There’s an old story, borne out by production records, about [producer] Arthur Hornblow Jr. deciding to exert his power by handing [Billy] Wilder and [Charles] Brackett’s fully polished draft [of the screenplay for 1939’s Midnight] to a staff writer named Ken Englund. (Like many producers, then and now, Hornblow just wanted to put some more thumbprints on it.) Englund asked Hornblow what he was supposed to do with the script, since it looked good enough to him. “Rewrite it,” said Hornblow. Englund did as he was told and returned to Hornblow’s office with a new draft whereupon the producer told him precisely what the trouble was: it didn’t sound like Brackett and Wilder anymore. “You’ve lost the flavor of the original!” Hornblow declared. Englund then pointed out that Brackett and Wilder themselves were currently in their office doing nothing, so Hornblow turned the script back to them for further work. Charlie and Billy spent a few days playing cribbage and then handed in their original manuscript, retyped and doctored with a few minor changes. Hornblow loved it, and the film went into production.”

– Ed Sikov, On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

On Midnight‘s Screenplay
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