Tag: Film
It Had to Be a Rear Window
While many elements were changed from short story to film and each had varying importance, there was one part of the story that didn’t change from page to screen at all which was, personally, the most well-written and well-filmed element by Woolrich and Hitchcock: the rear window.
Talk Is Easy. Love Is Hard.
The film’s moral is that you should be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. That seems easy, but if you want love? That’ll take some work.
Film as Lit Crit: The Problem With Beowulf
With a $150 million budget, that’s an expensive piece of criticism! I bet it all went into copyediting…
Too Many Villains: The Third Man (1949)
In Carol Reed’s 1949 classic The Third Man, no one is innocent…
Film Review: Out of the Past (1947)
The characters in Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 noir classic Out of the Past may not be good, but the movie is great.