Warner Bros. 100 Years of Storytellingby Mark A. VieiraRunning Press/Turner Classic Movies, 360 pp., Hardcover, $40.00, also available as an e-bookPublished May 30, 2023 Initially, it was Warner Brothers, named after Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack, sons of Benjamin Wonsal … Continue reading WARNER BROS. 100 YEARS OF STORYTELLING
Eddie Muller is known as “the czar of noir,” and for good reason. He’s penned booked on the movies—Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir and Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir, among others—started the Film Noir Foundation … Continue reading EDDIE MULLER’S NOIR BAR
Hollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnicity since its very beginning. So opens Luis I. Reyes latest cinematic study, Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film. Complicated? You bet. But as Reyes points … Continue reading Luis Reyes on VIVA HOLLYWOOD
On this week’s edition of After Image, I speak with scholar and author, Luis Reyes about his new book, Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in Hollywood—available now from TCM and Running Press. Listen to After Image, … Continue reading
20th Century-Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studioby Scott EymanRunning Press/TCM, 336 pp., Hardcover $28.00 ($35.00 in Canada), also available as an e-book and audiobookPublished Sept. 21, 2021 For 50 years, Scott Eyman’s been collecting … Continue reading Scott Eyman on 20TH CENTURY-FOX: DARRYL F. ZANUCK AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN FILM STUDIO
Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War IIby Christian BlauveltRunning Press/Turner Classic Movies, 240 pp., Hardcover, $30.00 ($38.00 Canada), also available as an e-bookPublished Nov. 2, 2021 When America went to war in 1941, Hollywood followed suit. … Continue reading HOLLYWOOD VICTORY: THE MOVIES, STARS, AND STORIES OF WORLD WAR II
I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels So says Ruth Roman in Tomorrow is Another Day, a forgotten lovers-on-the-lam noir from 1951. Or it would have been forgotten … Continue reading Eddie Muller on DARK CITY: THE LOST WORLD OF FILM NOIR
Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classicsby John MalahyRunning Press, 199 pp., Hardcover, $24.00 ($30.00 Canada)On sale now For all intents and purposes, the summer movie season began in 1975 with the release of Jaws. Set during Fourth of July weekend on the … Continue reading SUMMER MOVIES: 30 SUN-DRENCHED CLASSICS
Michael J. Cinema 