Monday, August 30, 2004

Claremont Review of Books, Volume IV, Number 3, Summer 2004.

This issue contains several essays and book reviews centered around the topic(s) of the 14th Amendment, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and the judicial policy-making instigated by the Warren and Burger courts (properly a Legislative function). I find especially noteworthy the essay by Michael M. Uhlmann The Road Not Taken: Brown v. Board of Education at 50.

Thursday, August 19, 2004

David Horowitz.
Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey. (Publisher's page, Amazon.com.)
Dallas: Spence Publishing Company, 2003.

A uniquely comprehensive survey of American politics of the last 40 or 50 years.

David Horowitz:

About David Horowitz:

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Elizabeth Gilbert.
The Last American Man.
Penguin Books, 2003.
(Originally published in the USA by Viking Books, 2002.)
(Susan's book.)

A biography of Eustace Conway of Turtle Island Preserve, North Carolina.

Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, 2000.

Eustace Conway and Elizabeth Gilbert at a book tour event, 2002.

Sunday, August 08, 2004

Pam Cook, Film Studies, University of Southampton, England.
I Know Where I'm Going!.
London: British Film Institute, 2002.
(Series: BFI Film Classics)
The book described at BFI.

The Film: I Know Where I'm Going!, 1945
IMDB.
Rotten Tomatoes.
Criterion Collection DVD edition, essay.
Amazon.com.
BFI screenonline.
Bright Lights Film Journal.
DVDBeaver.com DVD review.
DVDBeaver.com see Criterion Spine # 94 for additional links.
digitally OBSESSED!.
DVD Savant.
Mondo Digital.

Michael Powell: (director, writer, producer)
IMDB.
It's not just Michael Powell: British Films of the 30s, 40s and 50s.
Michael Powell (1905 - 1990).
Obituary from The Times.
Powell Appreciation site in French.
A Life in Movies: An Autobiography by Michael Powell.
Million-Dollar Movie by Michael Powell.
Michael Powell: Interviews.

Emeric Pressburger: (writer, director, producer)
IMDB.
Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter by Kevin MacDonald.

Powell & Pressburger:
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - Pure Genius The Powell and Pressburger Appreciation Society.
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger by Adrian Danks (additional links at bottom of page) at Senses of Cinema.
BFI screenonline Powell and Pressburger.
BFI screenonline Powell and Pressburger: The War Years. (See also other Powell related pages at this site.)
Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger by Ian Christie.
Powell, Pressburger and Others by Ian Christie.
The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers by Scott Salwolke.
Michael Powell in collaboration with Emeric Pressburger by Kevin Gough-Yates.

Sunday, August 01, 2004

Jill Forbes (1947 - 2001, Curriculum Vitae, Obituary).
Les Enfants Du Paradis.
London: British Film Institute, 1997.
(Series: BFI Film Classics)

The Film: Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), 1945
IMDB.
Rotten Tomatoes.
Criterion Collection DVD edition, essays.
Amazon.com information on the DVD with reviews.
DVDBeaver.com see Criterion Spine # 141 for film reviews and technical reviews of the Criterion DVD.
Roger Ebert's Great Movies (Frankly, I'm not a big fan of Ebert's reviews, although as a novice to film art I found him very instructive. At the time when I first read this particular review it contained at least one dumb typo and one glaring error.).
Les Enfants du Paradis by Girish Shambu, Review at Senses of Cinema.
MovieMartyr.com.
Films de France.
Film Review by Jim Richardson.

Marcel Carné: (director)
IMDB.
Criterion Focus: Marcel Carné, Essays, Interview, Filmography, Bibliography.
The Boston French Center: Marcel Carné Archive.
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?.
Child of Paradise: Marcel Carne and the Golden Age of French Cinema by Edward Baron Turk, Harvard University Press, 1989.

Jacques Prévert: (writer)
IMDB.
Homage to Jacques Prévert.
In addition to his screenwriting work, Jacques Prévert was a prominant poet, so there are many websites devoted to his work but most are in French and I cannot judge what to include here. From what I have read it seems that Carné & Prévert formed one of those film collaborations that may be in the same league as Powell & Pressburger, Kurosawa & Mifune, Bergman & Nykvist, Herzog & Kinski, and Joel & Ethan Coen (yes, perhaps the Coen brothers are that good).

Arletty: (actress, Garance)
IMDB.
Cinema and the Female Star.
Films de France -> Actors -> Arletty.

Jean-Louis Barrault: (actor, Baptiste)
IMDB.
Book Review by Ian McKellen of Memories for Tomorrow: The Memoirs of Jean-Louis Barrault.