Quai des Orfèvres David Sanjek November 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film During the course of a conversation in the crime drama Quai des Orfèvres (1947) between the photographer Dora Monier (Simone Renant) and the investigator Antoine (Louis Jouvet), he discourses upon how the demar...
Johnny Guitar David Sanjek June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Does it come at all as a surprise that the first image in the often-hallucinatory Johnny Guitar features an explosion, and one whose cause is not immediately apparent? Or that the next sequence draws attention ...
My Man Godfrey David Sanjek March 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film While William Powell’s eponymous butler in My Man Godfrey is characterised as the “forgotten man”, perhaps the film’s director, Gregory La Cava (1892-1952) might more appropriately merit this title. For someone...
Richard Lester by Neil Sinyard David Sanjek October 2010 Book Reviews How do you solve a problem like Richard Lester? Typically, analysts have taken one or another extreme position: either to extol the American-born, long-term English resident as an overlooked, underestimated pur...
Ambling Along The Long Horizon of History: The 24th Il Cinema Ritrovato David Sanjek October 2010 Festival Reports The Cineteca del Comune di Bologna is located in a residential portion of the city, down a side street and then within a lovely, small piazza. The facility incorporates the organisation’s administrative offices...
Plein soleil David Sanjek July 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film The first of five novels Patricia Highsmith published about her murderous protagonist Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) begins with the eponymous central character fearful of his presumed pursuit by an...
Bright Leaves David Sanjek April 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film A hot topic in literary circles of late has been whether the memoir has successfully superseded forms of fiction as the pre-eminent formal expression of contemporary life. Certainly the sales and critical appro...
Le Feu follet David Sanjek April 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Le Feu follet/The Fire Within (1963 France 103 mins) Prod Co: Nouvelles Éditions de Films Dir: Louis Malle Scr: Louis Malle, from the novella by Drieu la Rochelle Phot: Ghislain Gloquet Ed: Monique Nana ...
The Shop Around The Corner David Sanjek March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Shop Around The Corner (1940 USA 99 mins) Prod Co: MGM Prod, Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Scr: Samson Raphaelson, from the play Parfumerie by Nikolaus Laszlo Phot: William Daniels Ed: Gene Ruggiero Mus: Werne...
Medium Cool David Sanjek August 2008 CTEQ Annotations on Film Medium Cool (1969 USA 110 mins) Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Tully Friedman, Haskell Wexler, Jerrold Wexler Dir, Scr, Phot: Haskell Wexler Ed: Verna Fields Art Dir: Leon Erickson Mus: Mike Bloomfield Cast...
The Godless Girl David Sanjek March 2008 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Godless Girl (1929 US 113 mins) Prod Co: C.B. DeMille Prod, Dir: Cecil B. DeMille Scr: Jeanie Macpherson Phot: J. Peverell Marley Ed: Anne Bauchens Prod Des: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Lina Basquette, ...