Tag: 50s movies
No Daylight for the Scheming: Night and the City
While the U.S. was riding “high” off the post-war economic boom in 1950, some Americans chose to stay behind in Europe (though most are aware [Read More…]
The Star: Like Sunset Boulevard Had Norma Desmond Been Castrated By Financial Ruin
Like the cinematic, L.A.-oriented songs of Lana Del Rey alluding to portents of some cataclysmic fall (“Nobody warns you before the fall”), all of 1952’s [Read More…]
Love Is Witchcraft: Bell, Book and Candle
As a more under the radar “Christmas movie,” Bell, Book and Candle serves to stress the point that every rom-com before and since has wanted [Read More…]
Some Like It Hot & Married to the Mob: Correlations
With Swing Shift and Something Wild, director Jonathan Demme established himself as a comedic force to be reckoned with in the 80s, much of his [Read More…]
Love Lost and Found in Journey to Italy
Although 1954 was still a year when divorce was considered unfathomable and marriage was something you simply endured regardless of how unhappy you were, Roberto [Read More…]
