Formal qualities – Funerals & Snakes

Auteurs Formal qualities Great Art Literary interludes Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Literary interlude

François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Scott during the interviews that created the book. F.T. Would…

Glenn KennyNovember 11, 2012

Auteurs Costuming Formal qualities Images Movie Palaces Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny The Sublime

Displacement by wardrobe in Douglas Sirk’s “Written on the Wind” (1956)

For the Self Styled Siren. Lauren Bacall's first costume. ("First" in this case meaning with…

Glenn KennyOctober 16, 2011

Auteurs DVD Formal qualities Great Art Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

We have all got it coming, or, Joseph Losey meets the plausibles: some observations on the finale of “The Prowler” (1951)

As you might infer from the title of this post, spoilers will follow. So when…

Glenn KennyFebruary 3, 2011

Books Formal qualities Interviews Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Christopher Sorrentino on “Death Wish,” the so-called “New York film,” received critical wisdom, and a little more…

Speaking of Charles Bronson movies, and stuff: In November of last year, Soft Skull Press…

Glenn KennyJanuary 27, 2011

Aesthetics Auteurs Awesomeness Formal qualities Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

More dissolves

My post below, inspired by a happenstance viewing of Michael Curtiz's great 1939 Dodge City,…

Glenn KennyAugust 29, 2010

Aesthetics Formal qualities Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny Wonkiness

How to dissolve

So I'm on the treadmill at the gym (six miles in a little over sixty…

Glenn KennyAugust 27, 2010