Jason Kruppa

I opened it and my eyes fell immediately on Blue, so that's a good thing!

I wish I'd done this 20 years ago so I could compare that list to the one I'd make now.

I've done graphic design off and on for 20 years and can testify to this. I really do appreciate when I'm admiring the font in a book and flip to the front (or back) and see "this book was set in ____"

I hope so too. This is the first trailed that looks "cinematic," which has me more interested than before.

So charming.

With Gonzo at the end just reading the credits because they don't have anymore money to do a proper credit scroll.

And the liberal use of a smoke machine!

Or just stay off forever? I recently took all the apps off my phone and now just check them once a day on my laptop. I read, take walks and even just repainted my bathroom(!) and my mental health has improved dramatically.

Of course, cinema is motion, and moving camera shots like this must have impressed a young Steven Spielberg.

Bogart's the lead of course, but we get a lot of beautiful shots of Peter Lorre too. This film is filled with great faces given plenty of opportunity for expression.

PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE (1944) shows cinematographer James Wong Howe filling the screen with atmospheric light and shadow and making every close up a thing of chiaroscuro beauty. More screen caps in comments.

I saw the first two extended along with the premiere of the third theatrical cut way back when it first came out, all in one day. It was quite the day!

Very interested! If you ever want to talk about the music, I’ve been studying Dominic Frontiere’s handwritten scores and recently wrote some pieces for a couple of related projects. I know the music for The Mice and Nightmare better than any sane person should!

Jim Henson’s proposed idea for The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made

Write-in for The Hidden Fortress

A great film. Truman Capote asserted in his piece on her that Marilyn hated Niagara, but I’m skeptical. She’s so good in it

Thanks for the reminder to rewatch All The President’s Men to relive the innocent times when Nixon was the worst we could imagine

It’s a horror story from the point of view of the monster, who doesn’t think he’s a monster, and who thinks this is a romance. And it seems more and more like a Rorschach test for a sick society.

I was in Mississippi for a couple of days and thought I’d look at this app but nope. Weirdly just ten miles away on the beach in the *same state* I had access.

Bullshit

Just found this at a free library. That’s this weeks reading sorted.

I only discovered the under-discussed Redford film The Hot Rock a few years back but I bring it up every chance I get. I’m sorry that today gives me reason to bring it up.

I remember stumbling across Black Narcissus on our local PBS station late one Sunday evening about 35 years ago and having my mind blown. I’d seen The Red Shoes already but wasn’t prepared for that film at all. What a run of masterpieces.

The Stationary Stones

It’s exciting in the way that only being in forced close proximity with almost 9 million other people in a concrete jungle can be

The Lady Vanishes, Young and Innocent, The 39 Steps, the Man Who Knew Too Much, Saboteur, Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent. Lots of good-to-great films

Shooting some old Fuji peel peel apart instant film today. The emulsion has held up beautifully.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who saw the Archers influence — especially the lighting on the nun in some shots. The whole thing is just a pleasure to watch.

I keep seeing a reel on Instagram about how it’s this quaint song that makes fun of the word “hello,” which according to the speaker was a new greeting when the song was written. No mention of the verses of course

Beautiful!