RICHARD MATHESON (1926-2013)
There is no writer who meant more to me. As a child, he was the first screenwriter whose name I recognized, on the credits of movies
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER – RICHARD MATHESON
Posts Categorized: Movies
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER: CORNELL WOOLRICH
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER:
CORNELL WOOLRICH (1903-1968)
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER:
CORNELL WOOLRICH (1903-1968)
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER: ROBERT BLOCH (1917-1994)
WRITERS THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A WRITER: ROBERT BLOCH
SCRIBE SATURDAY — W.R. BURNETT
W.R. BURNETT — The ultimate scribe of the gangster and the gunman.
LIVING MASTERS II
Living Masters. Bob Newhart, Richard Thompson, Rick Baker, Vin Scully, Ralph Stanley, Ennio Morricone.
FANTOMAS
My film freak Friday entry is FANTOMAS (1913). The first costumed villain/hero?
MEETING JAMES M. CAIN
When the AFI scheduled a screening of DOUBLE INDEMNITY and said that Cain would be there in person, I had to go. I’d seen INDEMNITY before, of course, but never in a theater. And certainly never in the presence of the Master himself.
MOVIE NIGHT – JANUARY 14, 2015
We start each night with some cartoons. It’s the law. We’ve been exploring the Hanna-Barbera TV shows lately. Some of them are very weak. THE SPACE KIDETTES was one. The other was YOUNG SAMSON AND GOLIATH, about a teen-ager and his dog who, with the help of magic bracelets turn into, well Young Samson (a muscle bound Sword and Sandal type) and his pet Lion. Who can also shoot laser out of his cat eyes.
BERTRAM MILLHAUSER AND THE INVISIBLE SCREENWRITER
I watch a lot of old movies. If you check my DVR, you’ll find it full of Turner Classic Movies and not much else. But I have an even stranger quirk. I pay attention to the screenwriters of these films. That’s right, I actually pay attention to who wrote the movie.
CARRY ON FOREVER
Turner Classic Movies is showing a new CARRY ON movie every Saturday. As there are over thirty of them, the festival could go on for many, many months. I know these films are an acquired taste, but I love them dearly. Full of low-brow, music-hall-style humor, they’re sort of the British equivalent to Abbott and Costello movies. The stories are loosely structured to allow a variety of English comedians a chance to do their bits.
