Monthly Archives: September 2021

Review: “Sanctuary City”

Posted on September 27, 2021 by dgsweet

Movie trailers today mostly are constructed the same way – a line or two of characters yelling or a violent incident quick cuts to another violent incident or line or two of characters yelling. And accompanying each cut is a … Continue reading →

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“People on Sunday”–a film of pre-Nazi Berlin

Posted on September 13, 2021 by dgsweet

Have started reading Joseph McBride’s new book, Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge, which naturally led to my watching People on Sunday, a silent film co-directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar Ulmer (with assists from Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann and … Continue reading →

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Men in White, Sidney Kingsley, and Ancillary Thoughts

Posted on September 4, 2021 by dgsweet

I recently read Sidney Kingsley’s play, Men in White (1933), and last night I watched the 1934 film adaptation directed by Richard Boleslawski. (Interesting that Boleslawski directed the film version of a work that had been directed on Broadway by … Continue reading →

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