The weekly assembly of links to blogposts, reviews, essays, podcasts and other items of interest about audio/visual work, usually first-rate and deserving of one's attention but sometimes less so and sometimes deserving of obscurity, up to and including opera, stage drama, conventions, museum exhibits, videogames (and boardgames), and more. This week we have some braiding, in large part thanks to the Great Villains Blogathan, now in its fourth year, but not to that fine project of Kristina Dijan, Ruth Kerr and Karen Hannsberry exclusively. Thanks to all who have produced the items linked to below! And please let me know if I've missed yours or someone else's.
Sparing a thought on the occasion of the deaths of writer/professor William Hjortsberg (a friend of writer and blogger Richard Wheeler) and Jonathan Demme.
A. J. Wright: Alabama actresses before 1960
Alice Chang: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Anne Billson: The Life of Oharu
The Big Broadcast: 23 April 2017
Bill Crider: Beau Brummell (1954 film) [trailer]
Bob Freedlander: The Big Heat; Experiment in Terror
Brian Busby: Tour de Force
Brian Lindenmuth: films based on the fiction of Lewis B. Patten
B. V. Lawson: Media Murder
Colin McGulgan: Money, Women and Guns
Comedy Film Nerds: Faith Choyce
Cult TV: George and the Dragon
Cynthia Fuchs: Headshot; Queen of Katwe
Dan Stumpf: Big House, U.S.A.
The Dana Gould Hour: Kliph Nesteroff, Drew Friedman; Pete Aronson
Not solely how it should've ended, but also how it wasn't remotely well-written at any point.
Courtesy Lee Goldberg
Elgin Bleecker: Charade
Elizabeth Foxwell: First Edition: "Elmore Leonard" (1984 long interview)
Eric Hillis: Hard Times; The Entity
The Faculty of Horror: 2016 in review
George Kelley: Dead Again; Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
How Did This Get Made?: Escape from LA (see Movie Sign with the Mads)
Iba Dawson: Feud: Bette and Joan
International Waters: Andy Kindler; Scott Thompson; Sara Morgan; Chris Morgan
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Ducks and Drakes; Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?; Fast Break; Crime Does Not Pay: "Desert Death"
Jack Seabrook, John Scoleri, Jose Cruz, Gilbert and Peter Enfantino: 2016 film, tv and more highlights (and less so)
Jackie Kashian/The Dork Forest: Rebecca Sugar on musicals
Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show
Jacqueline T. Lynch: Night and Day; De-Lovely
Jake Hinkson: Chicago Film Society
James Reasoner: Lady on a Train
Janet Varney/The J. V. Club: Amy Shira Teitel
J. D. Lafrance: Glengarry Glen Ross (film)
Jedidiah Ayres: On the Job
Jerry House: "Max, the Heartbreaker"; 1960?? Jimmy Cricket! (ABC Radio 1947 documentary of sorts featuring Disney voice actors)
John Grant: The Medusa Touch; La Foire aux Chimères; Flesh and the Spur
John Scoleri: Dark Shadows Before I Die
John Varley: Poltergeist (1982 film); The Night Manager
Jonathan Lewis: The Funhouse (1981 film)
Judy Gold/Kill Me Now: Cathy Ladman & Leslie Popkin; Laurie Kilmartin/Part 2
Karen Hannsberry: Great Villains Blogathon, Day 1
Kate Laity: She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Ken Levine: belaboring the joke; WGA labor action
Kim Newman: Mindhorn; I Start Counting; Drive, He Said
Kliph Nesteroff: Here Come the Stars (1968 television); The Phyllis Diller Show
Kristina Dijan: Children of Paradise; The Dark Tower (1943 film)
Laura G.: The Richest Girl in the World; Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival; Other Men's Women; Wanted! Jane Turner; Ladies of the Jury
Lindsey D.: Broadway Babies; Rome Adventure
The Long Shot: Betsy Sodaro
Maltin on Movies: festivals
Martin Edwards: CWA Annual Conference
Marty McKee: Superman and the Mole Men; The Golden Gate Murders
Mildred Perkins: Dracula's Daughter
Mitchell Hadley: Atlanta television, 27 April 1977; TV Guide, 23 April 1977
Movie Sign with the Mads: Escape from New York; The African Queen
Noel Vera: Hell or High Water
Patricia Nolan-Hall: Speedy; Hammett's Casper Gutman in film
Paul D. Brazill: The Bed-Sitting Room
The Projection Booth: The Red Shows; eXistenZ
Phil Nobile, Jr.: Roger Moore on Live and Let Die (courtesy Paul Brazill)
Raquel Stecher: Panique; The Graduate at 50
Rick: The Fortune Cookie; Detectorists
Rod Lott: Attack of the Morningside Monster; Beware! The Blob
Ruth Kerr: Great Villains Blogathon
Salome Wilde: The Scarlet Hour v. Pushover
Scott A. Cupp: Night of the Lepus
Serena Bramble: The Light Between Oceans
Sergio Angelini: Inspector Morse: "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn" (Sergio points us to Chris Sullivan's post on this episode.)
Stacia Kissick Jones: Macbeth (1948 film); Daisy Kenyon
Stacie Ponder: The Haunting
Steve Lewis: Desire and Hell at the Sunset Motel; Nine Lives are Not Enough; The Black Tent
Stephen Bowie: UK television: The Man in Room 17; It's Dark Outside; The Plane Makers; Public Eye
Stephen Gallagher: The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Television Obscurities: Your Television Babysitter (Dumont Network, 1948-51)
Todd Mason: Soundstage, Jazz Casual, Playboy's Penthouse and other jazz television and film footage featuring Lambert, Hendricks and Ross or Bavan
Tynan: The 400 Blows; Divorce, Italian Style
Vienna: That's Entertainment!
Walker Martin: Windy City Pulp Convention 2017
Yvette Banek: The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
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| Legend (1985) written by William Hjortsberg |
Sparing a thought on the occasion of the deaths of writer/professor William Hjortsberg (a friend of writer and blogger Richard Wheeler) and Jonathan Demme.
Todd Mason, with apologies for a day's delay this week, as well
A. J. Wright: Alabama actresses before 1960
Alice Chang: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Anne Billson: The Life of Oharu
The Big Broadcast: 23 April 2017
Bill Crider: Beau Brummell (1954 film) [trailer]
Bob Freedlander: The Big Heat; Experiment in Terror
Brian Busby: Tour de Force
Brian Lindenmuth: films based on the fiction of Lewis B. Patten
B. V. Lawson: Media Murder
Colin McGulgan: Money, Women and Guns
Comedy Film Nerds: Faith Choyce
Cult TV: George and the Dragon
Cynthia Fuchs: Headshot; Queen of Katwe
Dan Stumpf: Big House, U.S.A.
The Dana Gould Hour: Kliph Nesteroff, Drew Friedman; Pete Aronson
Not solely how it should've ended, but also how it wasn't remotely well-written at any point.
Courtesy Lee Goldberg
Elgin Bleecker: Charade
Elizabeth Foxwell: First Edition: "Elmore Leonard" (1984 long interview)
Eric Hillis: Hard Times; The Entity
The Faculty of Horror: 2016 in review
George Kelley: Dead Again; Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
How Did This Get Made?: Escape from LA (see Movie Sign with the Mads)
Iba Dawson: Feud: Bette and Joan
International Waters: Andy Kindler; Scott Thompson; Sara Morgan; Chris Morgan
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Ducks and Drakes; Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?; Fast Break; Crime Does Not Pay: "Desert Death"
Jack Seabrook, John Scoleri, Jose Cruz, Gilbert and Peter Enfantino: 2016 film, tv and more highlights (and less so)
Jackie Kashian/The Dork Forest: Rebecca Sugar on musicals
Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show
Jacqueline T. Lynch: Night and Day; De-Lovely
Jake Hinkson: Chicago Film Society
James Reasoner: Lady on a Train
Janet Varney/The J. V. Club: Amy Shira Teitel
J. D. Lafrance: Glengarry Glen Ross (film)
Jedidiah Ayres: On the Job
Jerry House: "Max, the Heartbreaker"; 1960?? Jimmy Cricket! (ABC Radio 1947 documentary of sorts featuring Disney voice actors)
John Grant: The Medusa Touch; La Foire aux Chimères; Flesh and the Spur
John Scoleri: Dark Shadows Before I Die
John Varley: Poltergeist (1982 film); The Night Manager
Jonathan Lewis: The Funhouse (1981 film)
Judy Gold/Kill Me Now: Cathy Ladman & Leslie Popkin; Laurie Kilmartin/Part 2
Karen Hannsberry: Great Villains Blogathon, Day 1
Kate Laity: She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Ken Levine: belaboring the joke; WGA labor action
Kim Newman: Mindhorn; I Start Counting; Drive, He Said
Kliph Nesteroff: Here Come the Stars (1968 television); The Phyllis Diller Show
Kristina Dijan: Children of Paradise; The Dark Tower (1943 film)
Laura G.: The Richest Girl in the World; Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival; Other Men's Women; Wanted! Jane Turner; Ladies of the Jury
Lindsey D.: Broadway Babies; Rome Adventure
The Long Shot: Betsy Sodaro
Maltin on Movies: festivals
Martin Edwards: CWA Annual Conference
Marty McKee: Superman and the Mole Men; The Golden Gate Murders
Mildred Perkins: Dracula's Daughter
Mitchell Hadley: Atlanta television, 27 April 1977; TV Guide, 23 April 1977
Movie Sign with the Mads: Escape from New York; The African Queen
Noel Vera: Hell or High Water
Patricia Nolan-Hall: Speedy; Hammett's Casper Gutman in film
Paul D. Brazill: The Bed-Sitting Room
The Projection Booth: The Red Shows; eXistenZ
Phil Nobile, Jr.: Roger Moore on Live and Let Die (courtesy Paul Brazill)
Raquel Stecher: Panique; The Graduate at 50
Rick: The Fortune Cookie; Detectorists
Rod Lott: Attack of the Morningside Monster; Beware! The Blob
Ruth Kerr: Great Villains Blogathon
Salome Wilde: The Scarlet Hour v. Pushover
Scott A. Cupp: Night of the Lepus
Serena Bramble: The Light Between Oceans
Sergio Angelini: Inspector Morse: "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn" (Sergio points us to Chris Sullivan's post on this episode.)
Stacia Kissick Jones: Macbeth (1948 film); Daisy Kenyon
Stacie Ponder: The Haunting
Steve Lewis: Desire and Hell at the Sunset Motel; Nine Lives are Not Enough; The Black Tent
Stephen Bowie: UK television: The Man in Room 17; It's Dark Outside; The Plane Makers; Public Eye
Stephen Gallagher: The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Television Obscurities: Your Television Babysitter (Dumont Network, 1948-51)
Todd Mason: Soundstage, Jazz Casual, Playboy's Penthouse and other jazz television and film footage featuring Lambert, Hendricks and Ross or Bavan
Tynan: The 400 Blows; Divorce, Italian Style
Vienna: That's Entertainment!
Walker Martin: Windy City Pulp Convention 2017
Yvette Banek: The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
Thanks for the link, Todd.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome as always, Jack, and thank you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for including me *and mentioning Chris' blog too)
ReplyDeleteNot at all...thanks on both counts to you.
ReplyDeleteOh that's quite a list. Thanks for the compilation, Todd.
ReplyDeleteOn a different note, here's my FFB for today:
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.
http://inkquilletc.blogspot.in/2017/04/forgotten-book-daughter-of-time-by.html
Thanks.