Font Fetish

One of the many pleasures of watching Criterion's new edition of the Ulmer/Siodmak/Wilder/Zinnemann/etc.-helmed PEOPLE ON SUNDAY is that the pristine restoration allows the viewer to luxuriate in the Weimar-era graphic design and architecture. I will be posting a link to a review shortly.

"I live. Isn’t that challenge enough?"

CHAINS (1949, Raffaello Matarazzo)

TORMENTO (1950, Matarazzo)

NOBODY'S CHILDREN (1952, Matarazzo)

THE WHITE ANGEL (1955, Matarazzo)

I Give Myself a D+

Spurred by Dennis Cozzalio and the need to interrupt the silence of the last two months lest some pornographer declare imminent domain on my site, I've decided to take a stab at Professor Ed Avery’s Cortizone-Fueled, Bigger-Than-Life, Super Big-Gulp-Sized Summer Movie Quiz.

Still More 2010 Film Minutae

Thanks to Steve Carlson, the 2010 Muriels ballots have been published. Mine is here. More later but a few quick caveats/errata:

Dwell On These Things

Cyril the Squirrel Holding a Blue Balloon, Eliot Tatler, 4/3/2011

After watching Hitler, reading interviews with members of the Khmer Rouge, editing a show about child abductors/murderers, vomiting my way through biographies of L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith...

The Road To Hell

And my White Elephant assignment is...

Atta Boy Mike

 

(The salient detail, of course, being Timothy Carey's entrance in the above video around the 4:22 mark.)

Today marks the fifth annual White Elephant Blog, of which I'm honored (and vexed) to be a part. I'll be delivering my piece a little late, hopefully by the stroke of midnight. I won't give away the name of what I was assigned but I will say that it's the story of a failed painter who decides to get into politics and becomes god for a mercifully short period of time.

I submitted a movie which I think is a small masterpiece but has a (deserved) reputation for being BONKERS.

I can't get the above song out of my head this morning, hence the link.