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Tag Archives: Boris Karloff
May 2024 Viewing Diary
Forward Fast (2024; d. Lorraine Sovern) I met Lorraine at the Florida Film Festival. Someone I was talking to at a party told me about her work and about this short film. He then pulled her over to our group … Continue reading
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Tagged action movies, Boris Karloff, comedy, documentary, drama, Germany, horror, Iran, Iranian film, Ireland, Italy, Mary Shelley, Mohammad Rasoulof, Pre-Code, Robert De Niro, Russia, Ryan Gosling, short films, Stalin, Tuesday Weld, women directors
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Chronological Jack: The Terror (1963); Dir. Roger Corman
One random sunny day along the coast of ….. France, Lieutenant Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), separated from his regiment in Napoleon’s army, encounters a beautiful woman, who leads him on a mysterious chase through a forest, across a field, up … Continue reading
Boris Karloff: “shocked by unkindness and never less than polite”
This is my late addition to the spectacular Boris Karloff Blog-a-Thon going on at Frankensteinia. I have been losing myself in all of the links. Great stuff – make sure you head on over there and read. Keep scrolling! Peter … Continue reading Continue reading
The Great Boris Karloff Bowling Scene From Scarface
… directed by Howard Hawks. This is for Peter Nellhaus. It’s a wonderful sequence, spare and violent, ominous and yet elegant – not one shot too many, a perfect mix of mess (the sound of the bowling alley mixed with … Continue reading
Karloff Week
I love living in New York sometimes – it does have its perks – and one of the perks is a joint like the Film Forum. Why? Because they do week-long retrospectives on Boris Karloff. I have to go see … Continue reading
Speaking of The Grinch: Boris Karloff
Peter Bogdonavich, in his wonderful book, Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors, devotes a chapter to Boris Karloff. Here’s an excerpt: Through four decades during his lifetime, and now more than thirty years later, the name … Continue reading