Showing posts with label Billy Wilder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billy Wilder. Show all posts
Monday, 15 August 2016

Summer re-views: favourite Sabrina moments

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We can always sit down and look at SABRINA one more time - its a perennial Billy Wilder favourite, so 1954 and with that perfect black and...
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Monday, 14 March 2016

Horst Buchholz

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That late '50s was a fascinating period for young European actors, with all the opportunities coming their way in the booming interna...
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Monday, 15 February 2016

Mitchell Leisen, Hollywood Director

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" Mitchell Leisen, Hollywood Director " first published in 1973 and reprinted in 1995, by David Chierichetti, is a fascinating ...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015

A week of re-viewings ...

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Since I went over to Sky Movies recently, a lot more classics have been on tap, its rather nice to settle down once again and see a favouri...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Some Like It Hot in 1959

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The June 1959 issue of " Films & Filming " (from that batch of 1950s British movie magazines I acquired recently, as per my...
Wednesday, 8 April 2015

The taxi driver scores an ace in the hole

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Or The Chuck Tatum /Travis Bickle show ... Watching two searing dramas one after the other left one limp on the sofa. I had not seen Bi...
Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Audrey / Sabrina

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Another joyous look at SABRINA , that Billy Wilder perennial from 1954, cementing Audrey Hepburn's stardom after her ROMAN HOLIDAY sen...
Wednesday, 21 January 2015

"Closer than that, Walter"

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DOUBLE INDEMNITY was on television. I know it well but looking in just as the credits rolled I was reeled in again and sat there fascina...
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Saturday, 18 October 2014

All those directors !

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Following on from the lists of actors and actresses we like, here is the Directors list .... its bigger than I imagined !  Michelange...
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