The Temptations’ “My Girl” in Father of The Bride (1991) Grant Bromley October 2020 Pop Music in Film I don't need no money, fortune, or fame. I've got all the riches, baby, one man can claim. -The Temptations, “My Girl” Charles Shyer’s Father of The Bride (1991) – more a contemporary reimagining of the p...
Abbas Kiarostami’s The Traveller (1974) Grant Bromley October 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1959, François Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959) presented delinquent childhood in a manner that allowed for its lead actor, the 14-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud, to become a star seemingl...
That which is planted: A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk, 1958) Grant Bromley April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time ...
A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks, 1928) Grant Bromley October 2019 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Man’s favorite sport?” The answer, presumably, in the world of Howard Hawks, is “woman”. At least, that’s what’s on the surface in Hawks’ work. One doesn’t have to look much further for evidence of that than t...
Colloidal Images: The Silent Films of Philippe Garrel Grant Bromley October 2018 The Second Generation: French Cinema After the New Wave “Life’s a gas. I hope it’s gonna last.” – T. Rex, “Life’s a Gas” Wearing only pantyhose over underwear, an androgynous child (Stanislas Robiolle) finds an aerosol can of hairspray on the headboard of his pa...
