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We keep hearing about a recession (and my 401K keeps dropping) but around Cabarrus County building keeps going and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight. Some is

Blu-ray: Marlene Dietrich at Universal 1940-1942 | reviews, news & interviews Blu-ray: Marlene Dietrich at Universal 1940-1942 Blu-ray: Marlene Dietrich at Universal 1940-1942 Four films that tested the stars durability with the American public by Graham FullerSunday, 07 March 2021 Falling in love again: Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in Seven SinnersUniversal Her glory years as the muse of Josef von Sternberg long gone, Marlene Dietrich had been labelled “box-office poison” a...

Marlene Dietrich in the 1940s: The changing face of transgressive Hollywood As the films Marlene Dietrich made at Universal emerge on Blu-ray, Tamsin Cleary explores how the star’s transgressive image evolved under new management – and in changing times. 10 February 2021 The Spoilers (1942) Arriving in Hollywood at the dawn of the talkies, Marlene Dietrich had a seismic impact on American film. Having already made an international name for herself in Josef von Sternberg’s landmar...

The Train (1964) John Frankenheimer had quite the run in the early 1960s. Like Sidney Lumet, he was one of those modernising forces for American film who had come up through television. In films like The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964) and Seconds (1966), his work played lightning rod for the political and social anxieties of the Cold War’s most volatile period. Coming in the middle of these, 1964’s The Train, which BBC2 is dusting down this weekend, is a less pa...