"As if she could smell him..." M. Paradine (Alida Valli) senses the presence of Latour (Louis Jourdan) Dear Farran, Well thank you for sending me a nice slow Vertigo…
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This is the first of a four-part dialogue. The next installment will appear at Self Styled Siren on Friday, May 1. Alida Valli in The Paradine Case, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947.…
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The above shot of Richard is from 1974. I purloined it from Film Comment magazine. You almost wanna say "Look at the you-know-what hipster," don't you? I didn't meet Richard…
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As one can't make a living running a semi-depressive, nostalgic, grieving blog, at least that I know of, I now direct you to some Professional Film Writing, not deliberately pitched…
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I was recently recollecting the bad old days when I thought I was some kind of Internet Film Criticism policeman, and I got into it with not Some Dude™ but…
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The young Costello doppelgänger is, yes, your humble correspondent, somewhere between years 1960 and 1962 I reckon. I suppose I am so cheerful because the photographer is dangling a raw…
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