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TAKING A WALK ON THE FILMIC SIDE, TRANSITING THE VINTAGE ROADS.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
"The Lady in The Lake" on TCM for Christmas
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In 1947, MGM tried a new narrative trick. The studio wanted a way to mimic the first-person narration of Raymond Chandler's Philip Mar...
Saturday, December 13, 2014
"A Luckless Santa Claus" (short Christmas story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Christmas time at the Fitzgeralds’ in Paris (1925): "Nanny kept busily admonishing us about the French customs: how they did not give...
Thursday, December 11, 2014
The 90th Anniversary of ‘The Great Gatsby’
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In a few months, we’ll be celebrating the 90th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby , published for the first time in April 1925, although tec...
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Film Noir Collection, The Last Tycoon: F. Scott Fitzgerald & Irving Thalberg
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"Double Indemnity" comes to us, in this release, as part of a grand set, "Film Noir: 10-Movie Spotlight Collection". T...
Friday, December 05, 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner: Hollywood & the Deep South
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Few major Hollywood names have failed to make at least one appearance at Musso’s. And we’re not talking just the directors and actors (Cha...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Early Vanity Fair, Zelda Fitzgerald: Flapper of a Dangerous Generation
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A collection of a wide range of Vanity Fair articles ranging from 1914 to 1936, when the Great Depression forced the magazine to merge with...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
The World of Raymond Chandler and F. Scott Ftzgerald's bloody romanticism
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Raymond Chandler not only helped to invent the quintessential private eye of genre fiction, he did as much as anyone to define the movies&...
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