Posted in cult movies on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The sixth (and last) installment of the summary of my book Curtis Harrington: Danse Macabre.
6. Images of proud decadence
The last TV movie directed by Harrington before devoting himself entirely to television series for four years was The Dead Don’t Die (1975), also written by Robert Bloch from his novella published in 1953. The history of [...]
Posted in cult movies on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The fifth installment of the summary of my book Curtis Harrington: Danse Macabre
5. Harrington and television
In the wake of this central corpus of films where Harrington hit the occasional heights ans small troughts of filmaking, the director sought refuge in the TV medium. In 1970, before handing over What’s the Matter with Helen? and Whoever [...]
Posted in animation on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the magnificent column that he writes every month in Animation World Magazine, Martin Gooman (in june 2007) pointed to some very interesting thoughts on the creation and evolution of the most celebrated animated characters. As discourse strategy, Goodman converts the religious beliefs in metaphor from the different ways in which characters are developed and [...]
Posted in cult movies on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the fourth installment of the summary of my book Curtis Harrington: Danse Macabre.
4. At the big studios
After Queen of Blood, Harrington would have his golden opportunity to make a triumphal entry into the film industry thanks to a contract offered by Universal that meant the endorsement of his distance from both experimental and [...]
Posted in cult movies on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the third installment of the summary of my book Curtis Harrington: Danse Macabre.
3. Harrington, horror professional
In 1955, Harrington began to working as assistant producer to Jerry Wald on the productions The Long Hot Summer, Mardi Gras, Peyton Place, Hound-Dog Man and The Stripper, on which he held various, undefined responsabilities positions. But earlier, [...]
Posted in animation on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Czechoslovakia was the birthplace of some of the most original and interesting animation films of the second half of the twentieth century. Although who has gone down in history as the true master of classic Czech animation is Jiri Trnka (1912-1969) —heir to the poetry of traditional Czech puppets and precursor of an ethics [...]
