The January Index

Posted on January 31st, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

These were our Remake Chronicles essays for January. These are only the Remake essays; anything else on the blog is considered an extra. True Grit: The Movie Star Versus The Actor Matinee on The Bounty, or, “That’s Not Very Christian.” Wielding Prop Spears Against Real Wolves: The Two Versions of To Be Or Not To […]

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Three Mutes, Three Mad Sculptors, One Paddle-Ball Man and Three Houses of Wax

Posted on January 23rd, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

In which that lifelike wax sculpture was once an innocent girl with the misfortune to resemble Joan of Arc     Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). Directed by Michael Curtiz. Screenplay by Don Mullaly and Carl Erickson, from the play by Charles Belden. Starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, and Glenda […]

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Wielding Prop Spears Against Real Wolves: The Two Versions of To Be Or Not To Be

Posted on January 18th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

In which two of the funniest screen personalities of all time take one of history’s least funny subjects. Who achieves greatness, and who never rises above kitsch? Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro. To Be Or Not To Be (1942). Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Written by Melchior Lengyel and Edwin Justice Mayer, from an original story by […]

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