To see the intro to this project, as well as links to other decades, click here. 9) “Go Down, Moses,” from Sullivan’s Travels (1941) Writer-directors throughout movie history are rarely good at just shutting up and letting the work speak for itself, and Sullivan’s Travels is proof that even the best of them can stumble… Read More Listen to America: The 1940s
Dir. Frank Darabont. Starring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton The first piece of writing about writing which I can recall reading is Orson Scott Card’s introduction to his own novel, Ender’s Game. (This is before Card made that hard right turn that so many of the novelists who are influential to young adults seem to… Read More The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Dir. John Huston. Starring Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern In 1975, Roger Ebert interviewed John Huston, who by that time had peaked more than twenty years before and must have had some idea that he would never come close to the quality of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre or The Maltese Falcon again. Ebert noted that Huston’s… Read More The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Seeing Things Secondhand 