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20th Century history Affinities Criticism Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Riefenstahl/Sontag/Nabokov/Monty Python

Adolf Hitler in Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), Leni Riefenstahl, 1934. "Triumph of…

Glenn KennyJanuary 6, 2013

20th Century history 21st Century history Auteurs Current Events Images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Five frames from “Targets,” Peter Bogdanovich, 1968, interpolating one frame from “The Terror,” Roger Corman et alia, 1963

With Boris Karloff and Tim O'Kelly. See also here.

Glenn KennyJuly 21, 2012

20th Century history Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

A 19-year-old asshole sees “Alien” for the first time [Updated]

It's difficult to really formulate, in one's memory, just how that quality we now know…

Glenn KennyJune 7, 2012

20th Century history Criticism Critics Current Events Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

I believe in criticism

So for some reason or other the "film criticism, que-est-ce-que c'est" question is heating up…

Glenn KennyJune 5, 2012

20th Century history Auteurs Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

My direct experiences of “Titanic”

Premiere magazine had a lot of editorial capital invested in Titanic. During its production the…

Glenn KennyApril 12, 2012

20th Century history Au hasard SCR Observations Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The golden age of inappropriate behavior in movie theaters

What follows below in a different typeface is excerpted from a post I wrote for…

Glenn KennyMarch 24, 2012