Reflections in a CineEye
@msorrento
Editorial Director, Channel Academic Publishing; Editor FilmInt Online and Journal of NoirCon / Film Studies Lecturer, Rutgers-Camden / Cerebral Palsy Parent / Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror, now available from BearManor Media
Wonderful in SAVE THE TIGER (with Jack Lemmon, Best Actor Oscar; John G. Avildsen, 1973)
News flash — AI is now handling IMDb thumbnails: “Forget it, Ray…it’s Green Town.”
Coming from @illinoispress.bsky.social, Jill Craigie: Film and Feminism in Postwar Britain, on an unsung documentarian and screenwriter, her solo narrative feature, BLUE SCAR (1949), an intriguing low-budget entry on Welsh coal mining: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #womenfilmmakers
Coming soon from #StarkHousePress’s Black Gat series, #HoraceMcCoy ‘s 1938 #Hollywoodnovel: “this is why I waited for the darkness, for the nighttime. This is when Hollywood is really glamorous and mysterious….” #noirfiction #1930s #booksky
Open Mic this coming Tuesday at Inkwood NJ Books, Haddonfield, hosted by Al-Lateef Farmer, followed by an appearance by author @maritza4770.bsky.social -- hope to see you there! #booksky #anime #sf #specfic
Just wrote about Jackie Kong’s BLOOD DINER (1987), which began life as a sequel to BLOOD FEAST but grew into a standalone — my piece, on Horror at the Diner, coming soon as a column in @nightmare-magazine.com
Not the best of the #SUSPENSE episodes, the wrong man tale “Too Hot to Live” (CBS Radio; May 15, 1951) borrows from #DARKPASSAGE but is worthwhile for SUSPENSE star #RichardWidmark, with all his vocal power and occasional hissing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGs... #filmnoir #noirsky #oldtimeradio
Aaron Neville and Ernie sing “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon”: youtu.be/2WsXtCPE7Ww?... @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social #childrenstv #muppets
Walter Huston (left, with Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey in THE FURIES, 1950):
Stills of despair…on the right, from Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1974): #filmsky #resist #newgermancinema
Earlene and I had a wonderful time seeing Dr. Monica A. Coleman, Professor, Africana Studies, University of Delaware, give a talk on pluralistic faith and how colonialism stopped faith traditions from overlapping, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Cherry Hill, NJ. monicaacoleman.com
Philly #noir fans: I'll be introducing a screening of THE BURGLAR (Paul Wendkos, 1957) this Sunday, 4:30 at the #ColonialTheatre, Phoenixville. Shot on location, THE BURGLAR is the only film #DavidGoodis adapted from his own work. #filmsky #noirsky thecolonialtheatre.com/films/semiqu...
Today’s the last day to vote! Please email your ballot to support my story collection, BECOMING #NOSFERATU, and other favorites #horrorsky #booksky #silenthorror #dracula rondoaward.com/rondoaward.c...