The Simpsons – “A Streecar Named Marge”
The Simpsons – “A Streetcar Named Marge” All right, confession time: my very first exposure to Tennesse Williams’s classic play A Streetcar Named Desire came from this episode of The Simpsons. I am a 90s kid, no apologies. So after finally getting around to watching the great Elia Kazan film adaptation, I had to revisit … Continue reading
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) – Stage to screen adaptations can be tricky. Enough of them are great that there’s no cause to automatically be skeptical going into one, but there are also more than a few that hit the mark. When you factor in the fact that Tennessee Williams often wrote about homosexuality and … Continue reading
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Face in the Crowd (1957) — Every now and then you watch a movie from way back when (1957 in this case) and it’s staggering just how prophetic it turns out to be. It’s also shocking to see someone as lovably wholesome as Andy Griffith playing very much against type (though since this was … Continue reading
East of Eden (1955)
East of Eden (1955) — So I saw this movie a few years ago when the James Dean box set came out. I liked it a lot. Then I read the book earlier this month. Now one of my friends’ favorite book is East of Eden and he hates this movie. Probably because the movie … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 