S/D William Wellman, versatile director from the silents through the '50s

Subject of a retro in NYC; my faves of what I've seen are Roxie Hart, A Star Is Born, The Public Enemy, Track of the Cat... Alas I won't be able to get to the new restoration of Wings today.

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/wellman

A piece by Bertrand Tavernier:

http://www.filmlinc.com/blog/entry/from-the-archives-william-wellman-by-bertrand-tavernier

You can show The Ox-Bow Incident and Fury in any American history course that wants to address lynching.

Search: Nothing Sacred

I saw O-BI again recently, still pretty good if defanged by having Dana Andrews as the principal lynchee (I think they were 3 Mexicans in the book adapted).

I think I actually prefer the Martin & Lewis remake of Nothing Sacred...

I haven't seen it in years but I found it damn impressive, especially the framing and how frightening Jane Darwell is.

Thought about Wings yesterday but didn't make it.

I like the original Nothing Sacred.

Joel McCrea double feature tonight! And next week there's one w/ McCrea and Eddie Bracken -- meta-Sturges.

I'm going to have to make room for Chic Sale

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-forgotten-witless-for-the-prosecution

and on the early style (I assume pieces like this are never going to appear in print alt-weeklies again):

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/poetics-of-motion-20120215

Have any of you seen the Louise Brooks movie that is playing on Monday?

I have not

Would have liked to have gone Wednesday night but couldn't do it.

The Story of GI Joe is hard to see, so of course they only screen it at 8:25 on a weeknight! Either have to kill 3 hours or bail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuBW1OQ2WC0

G I Joe was raved about by James Agee as one of the great films of the '40s, drew praise from Eisenhower, and got Robert Mitchum his only Oscar nomination (and he's great indeed). It's probably as good or better than, say, Rossellini's Paisa.