Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Ray Bradbury's first collection, published in 1947 by Arkham House, contained so many memorable and lasting stories it has become legendary. A single book by a young writer including true masterpieces such as "The Lake," "The Small Assassin," "The Homecoming," "Uncle Einar" and many, many more--just about unthinkable. A fair share of these stories were later...
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The climax of Four O’Clock, a Hitchcock TV episode in his series Suspicion. Like REAR WINDOW, it’s based on a story by Cornell Woolrich, and like the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes Breakdown and One More Mile to Go, it basically gears up into a single protracted suspense sequence. EG Marshall has set a bomb to go [...]
The Business Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Elsie Bush Please do not fool yourself, going to the store and searching for aisles and aisles of product, some are not accessible, some are not the version you need and is not available for your console as well. Downloading movies online is the most up-to-date and most useful method to play movies and enjoy in a couple of minutes rather than squander a whole afternoon shopping at the local video...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
In addition to Russell Atwood’s recollection on this page of Freak, by Michael Collins (aka Dennis Lynds), the blogosphere is filled today with other “forgotten books” recommendations.Among the mystery and crime fiction offerings are Point of Honour, by Madeleine E. Robins; Faces in the Dark, by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac; Night & Fear, by Cornell Woolrich; Plunder the...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Day 3 Thieves Highway, or Thieves Market, is one of Bezzerides' finest novels. Here is the trailer for the film, directed by Kazan in 1949 with a script by Bezzerides. Next: Elisha Cook Jr., the greatest and most recognizable of all film noir character actors. This is the weird and famous jazz band scene from Siodmak's 1944 Phantom Lady, adapted from Cornell Woolrich's...
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
So my mystery book group met this past Saturday to discuss Cornell Woolrich’s The Black Angel, and, as usual, it was a great discussion. It was the kind of discussion where many if not all of us left the meeting with different ideas about the book than those we had originally — not necessarily [...]
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
It’ll be a quiet Friday night here, as I’m not quite ready to post on the latest book I’ve finished — Cornell Woolrich’s The Black Angel — and there’s not much else to report on, and I’d really rather get reading ASAP. A quiet night tonight is great, but I’m looking forward to a little [...]
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
THE FORGOTTEN hits the stands once more over at The Auteurs’ Notebook, where Tourneur pere et fils come under analysis, and we ponder the question of why it is so few filmmakers have their legs amputated. A strange resonance is generated, since we were just discussing REAR WINDOW and Cornell Woolrich, a literary peg-leg. Posted in [...]
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
In its most recent issue, Publishers Weekly called attention to Ray Bradbury’s Mystery Omnibus, Where Everything Ends, in a boxed notice accompanied by Jon Foster’s cover art. As they point out, Bradbury is the protagonist of the three novels, saying that “genre devotees will find contain elements comparable to Cornell Woolrich and Joel Townsley Rogers, [...]
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
NWFF screens Francois Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and a cooly lovely Catherine Deneuve in a black-hearted thriller based on a Cornell Woolrich story, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, and dedicated to Jean Renoir. One of the best French noirs, excellently crafted and thoroughly gripping. Also at NWFF: Jean-Luc Godard’s film essay of young [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
François Truffaut paid homage to Hitchcock in a couple of late-'60s features based on stories by Cornell Woolrich: "The Bride Wore Black" and "Mississippi Mermaid." Beginning today, the latter plays for a week at Northwest Film Forum as part of a yearlong series focusing on movies released in 1969.
Monster Rally (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
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Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Y’know, in a way it’s kind of disappointing that crime fiction is starting to rear its sordid little head at Irish literary festivals. Last year’s ‘Books 2008’ had a whole programme of crime fiction, as will ‘Books 2009’, while the Flat Lakes Festival in Monaghan is including a crime fic panel for the first time this year. Cuirt in Galway went bonkers entirely...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
I Married a Dead Man is a mystery novel by Cornell Woolrich . The entirety of the story is told in the prologue and first 7 chapters, so by the time I finished 51 chapters and a post script I felt like I had been completely filled in on all the details. But, still, how many details did I need if I'd known the story since the 7th chapter. Time.com has an article describing Woolrich's unusual life and...
The Reading Diary of John Dupuis (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
What do you care what I read in 2008? Nothing, of course, but I do. As I get older (I was 20 in 1983 when I started keeping track of the books I read) I find myself more and more in the position of looking at a stack of books on my shelves by, say, Cornell Woolrich and they all have the word "Black" in the title. I know I've read a couple but I can't remember which ones. Fortunately, I've...
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