Sherlock Holmes at The Projection Booth!
The Projection Booth Podcast has dedicated a whole month to 1970s film adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and you can listen to them all here!
“The Rule-Breaking Maestro of Noir’s Sound”
Tim Greiving writes about composer Miklós Rózsa at the Criterion blog. “Rózsa was the musical counterpart to Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain, the film’s writers, and Double Indemnity the ur–noir score.” Read more here.
The Projection Booth watches Ball of Fire (1941)
Our friends at The Projection Booth kick off a month of watching screwball comedies with Ball Of Fire (1941)! Listen here.
“The Bitter Tears of the Private Detective”
At Multiglom, Anne Billson writes about Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and “The Bitter Tears of the Private Detective.” Last week I went to see Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes again. And once again, as I dabbed my eyes with a hanky, […]
Carnival and Clairvoyance: Why Casino Royale (’67) is Your New Favourite Bond
Gutter Guest Star Matt Finch shares his favorite Bond film at Of Inhuman Bond Age: “Right at the start of Casino Royale, an alliance of world powers attacks the mansion of our hero, James Bond, an ageing World War I veteran. (Perpetually 35-ish no more.) Only such drastic […]
On The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
“Of course I have a copy of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes on video, but I don’t watch it very often. I even have, on tape now, the audio and video versions of those missing scenes. But it comforts me to know that they are still incomplete, […]
The Cultural Gutter 