Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how great Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is—and it is great. It’s one of the most important of American films; along with John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), it essentially kick-started 1970s cinema, and that decade’s auteur-driven New [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Long Goodbye’
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annie Hall, Arthur Penn, Éric Rohmer, Billy Wilder, Bonnie and Clyde, Days of Heaven, Don't Look Now, Ernst Lubitsch, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Melanie Griffith, My Night at Maud's, Nicolas Roeg, Night Moves, Point Blank, Robert Altman, Roger Ebert, Ross Macdonald, The Conversation, The Long Goodbye, The New Hollywood, Wes Anderson, William Wyler on September 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Guest Post, by Ted Pelton: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Billie Holliday, Edie Parker Kerouac, Gertrude Stein, Jack Kerouac, Lady Sings the Blues, Malcolm & Jack, Malcolm X, Raymond Chandler, ted pelton, The Long Goodbye on May 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“I had a drunk on like seven Swedes.” – Raymond Chandler