Welcome to Scribeing Cinema with Shane! What do cinephiles love to do most? Rank all things movies and that is what we will do in this series. Favorite actors… filmmakers… genres… narratives… you got it here! Time to highlight my classic directors you should explore… 1. Akira Kurosawa How many directors can say that they […]
“Shirley MacLaine (Happy Birthday) and Billy Wilder on the set of IRMA LA DOUCE.”
From Galicia to Berlin to Paris and eventually to Hollywood, the prolific director and screenwriter never let go of what proved to be his most formative experience: being in a state of exile.
“In a serious pictures, you don’t hear them being bored, but in a comedy you can hear them not laughing. You tried so hard and the guy did the pratfall, but nothing — and you wish you were dead.”…
“I promised myself, ‘I’m not going to let him do all those marvelous tricks.’ But I’m helpless. Jack’s talent seduces me, and I’m too weakened to resist…
Comedy about Coca-Cola's man in West Berlin, who may be fired if he can't keep his American boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertold Brecht and Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinneman’s Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre’s Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration. | Author: Gerd Gem?Nden | Publisher: Columbia University Press | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2014 | Number of Pages: 276 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 0231166796 | ISBN-13: 9780231166799
Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity came out in 1944, the same year David O. Selznick released Since You Went Away. Part of the campaign for the latter film were major ads that declared, “Since You Went Away are the four most important words in movies since Gone With the Wind!” which Selznick had also produced. Wilder
A look at the early work of one of the great designers of the Golden Age of Polish movie posters.
American actor Jack Lemmon as C.C. 'Bud' Baxter in 'The Apartment', directed by Billy Wilder, 1960.
