BOOK REVIEW: Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Pioneer (Brian Taves, 2012) - MILAN HAIN -  Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here Even though the name of Thomas H. Ince (1880-1924) appears in every reliable survey of film history, our notions about his contributions to cinema are largely vague and distorted. And to make things even worse, more often t ...

REFLEXION: 3 short movies from Matej Smetana (It’s only a movie) - ŠTĚPÁNKA IŠTVÁNKOVÁ - translated by Monika Kubešová „To avoid fainting repeat: It’s only a movie! If it doesn’t help either, only rotoscopy can save you!” Three trailers and one marker redrawing iconic 70s and 80s B horrors into simpler and more stylised form are actually blue and white story of Wes Craven, Chuck Russel and Sam Raimi meeting ...

BOOK REVIEW: 100 Ideas That Changed Film (David Parkinson, 2012) - MILAN HAIN - Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here British publishing outfit Laurence King Publishing has recently started a very successful series entitled 100 Ideas That Changed... Following publications on architecture and fashion (both published in September 2011), Laurence King rele ...

BOOK REVIEW: Tashlinesque - The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin (Ethan De Seife, 2012) - MILAN HAIN - Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here If I were asked to compile a list of the most underappreciated Hollywood directors of all time, Frank Tashlin would figure prominently on such a list. Born in New Jersey, Tashlin made a long and rich career in entertainm ...

ANALYSIS: Sala samobójców (Suicide Room - d. Jan Komasa, 2011) - KVĚTA LUJKOVÁ - After first watching Sala samobójców I felt (as well as many young people do) that it was about me or at least about part of our generation – losers having locked up themselves in imaginary worlds, suffering from a spectrum of psychical disorders starting with social phobia and ending with borderline personality disorder. Howev ...

BOOK REVIEW: Glenn Ford: A Life (Peter Ford, 2011) - JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by ALŽBĚTA RYCHTECKÁ) -   Glenn Ford (born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, 1916–2006) was a renowned actor of classical Hollywood cinema. During the fifty years of his film career, he played more than a hundred characters in film and on television. Even though he seldom had the opportunity to work with great directors or auteurs of h ...

BOOK REVIEW: Thomas C. Renzi: Screwball Comedy and Film Noir, Unexpected Connections (McFarland, 2012) – MILAN HAIN - Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here The coupling of film noir and comedy might seem ludicrous to some of our readers. However, this year's Noir City film festival in San Francisco - with screenings of Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours (1948) ...

BOOK REVIEW: Richard Linklater (David T. Johnson, 2012) - MILAN HAIN - The Contemporary Film Directors series, published by the University of Illinois Press, regularly provides concise book-length studies of the most notable contemporary film directors. Since 2003, the year the series was launched, there have been individual volumes on Abbas Kiarostami, Claire Denis, Edward Yang, Jane Campion, Paul Schrader ...

TÉMA - FILM A MĚSTO: Interview with Nathaniel Rich - JANA BÉBAROVÁ -  Nathaniel Rich (1980) is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of guidebook San Francisco Noir and novel Mayor's Tongue. At present he lives in New Orleans. More information about him can be found on his website. Czech-language version of the interview can be found here. / Česká verze rozhovoru je k dispozici zde. One can as ...

BOOK REVIEW: Dan Callahan: Barbara Stanwyck - The Miracle Woman (University Press of Mississippi, 2012) - MILAN HAIN - Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here There's no doubt that Barbara Stanwyck counted among the most famous and talented actresses of classical Hollywood cinema - along with Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and Irene Dunne. It is surprising and bew ...