Suspicion is a 1950s detective novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt that combines noir and metaphysics. Good call by Pushkin Press to republish an English translation.
Month: September 2017
Film moments #24: The Philadelphia Story
Philadelphia Story is a classic Hollywood comedy set in the world of the very rich. It works because it makes them vulnerable too.
Films and music
“You never see the music; you only feel it. In American films there is music all the time to tell you how to feel.”
Film moments #23: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon is one of 14 Holmes films pumped out during and after World War II, updated to the time. This is Holmes as propaganda.
Film Moments #22: Love Affair (1939)
Director Leo McCarey remade Love Affair almost two decades later as An Affair to Remember, with almost the same script. This version has a lighter touch.
‘Eddie, they’ll arrest you’
When the Tour De France crossed into Spain in 1974, Eddie Merckx started shouting the three words of Basque he’d been taught by Basque riders. If the police had heard him, he’d have been arrested.
Film moment #23: Dunkirk (2017)
If you’re making a film about taking 350,000 men off a beach, you need more extras–or CGI.
The Septembers 11th
The attack on the World Trade Center, and the coup against Allende’s Chilean government both occurred on September 11th. The two events echo around each other.
Brendan Behan, lighthouse painter
The Irish writer Brendan Behan spent some time as a young man working as a lighthouse painter. He wasn’t very good at it.
Film moments #21: Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Men in Tights is Mel Brooks’ genre spoof on Robin Hood. The screenwriters found some entertaining ways to make sure the audience was up with the story.