Showing posts with label ernest hemingway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ernest hemingway. Show all posts

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Check out my new commentary for Frank Borzage's A Farewell to Arms.

I go into the transition out of the silent era, the challenges of adapting a famous work, censorship problems in Classic Hollywood, and how the lives and careers of the principals informed the film. Also Gary Cooper's sex life.


Here it is in MP3:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/p3tqec

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Meals


A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine-glasses.
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Ernest Hemingway



Life is weather. Life is meals. Lunches on a blue-checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.
Light Years (1975)
James Salter

Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Traitor


Remember that, he told himself. The first friendly thing he does, he will have made a decision.  No, he said to himself, don't fool yourself. You do not know how he was before; but you do know that he is going bad fast and without hiding it. When he starts to hide it he will have made a decision. Remember that, he told himself. The first friendly thing he does, he will have made a decision.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Ernest Hemingway


Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that. So, Barzini will move against you first. He'll set up a meeting with someone that you absolutely trust, guaranteeing your safety. And at that meeting, you'll be assassinated. 
The Godfather (1972)
written by Mario Puzo, Robert Towne, and Francis Ford Coppola


 If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help. 
Goodfellas (1990)
written by Nicholas Pillegi and Martin Scorsese

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Walrus

"I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other."
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Ernest Hemingway




"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
"I Am the Walrus" Magical Mysery Tour (1967)
The Beatles