Christopher Saunders
I do not propose to recount my life in any detail, what is what. No damn business of anybody's, what is what. I am Groggy Dundee, *that* is what!
MY BLOGS
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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog
http://nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/
Reviews movies from all eras, countries and genres.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 653 )
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Oscars So What?
I didn't watch the Oscars last night, but like all sentient humans I'm aware of what happened: namely, that La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Hearts and Minds and Oscars
April 8th, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. A massive thunderstorm swamped the Academy Awards, inundating the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and its Hollywood... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Groggy Watches TV: OJ: Made in America and The People Vs. O.J. Simpson:...
As someone six years old when the O.J. Simpson drama unfolded, I can't claim any particular attachment to the "Trial of the Century. Read more
Posted on 26 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Groggy Watches TV: Gravity Falls
What does Groggy do when not reviewing classic movies, charting the evolution of American conservatism and pondering life's purpose in a world of alternative... Read more
Posted on 20 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Sweet Smell of Success
"I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic!"There's no shortage of movies depicting the press as irresponsible and sensationalist,... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
RIP John Hurt
Looks like another awful year for celebrity deaths: not only Mary Tyler Moore and Barbara Hale, but the great John Hurt. The venerable star of so many classics ... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
History: The State Department and the Madman, 1969-1970
Richard Nixon took office with a bold strategy to end the Vietnam War. "I call it the Madman Theory, Bob," he explained to Bob Haldeman, his White House Chief o... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2017 HISTORY -
The Omega Man
Richard Matheson's I Am Legend has inspired three films, none of them a classic. Last Man on Earth (1964) has atmosphere and Vincent Price, but it's let down... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Amarcord
Federico Fellini's last masterwork, Amarcord (1973) provides an elaborate slice of Italian life. Drawing from Fellini's own childhood, it's funny, crude and... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Broken Blossoms
"The Yellow Man's youthful dreams come to wreck against the sordid realities of life." After two colossal epics, D.W. Griffith turned to a simpler melodrama. Read more
Posted on 07 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
History remembers The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) as a missed opportunity. Orson Welles' follow-up to Citizen Kane suffered from studio mangling and reshoots,... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
"The former enemies of North and South are united again in common defense of their Aryan birthright." Modern cineastes regard The Birth of a Nation (1915) with... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Within Our Gates (1920)
"I've sold my birthright. All for a miserable mess of pottage."The remarkable Oscar Micheaux went from Pullman porter, farmer and novelist to Hollywood's first... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Laura (1944)
"When a dame gets killed, she doesn't worry about how she looks."Otto Preminger offers a high-class thriller with Laura (1944). Read more
Posted on 02 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
It Happened One Night
"I come from a long line of stubborn idiots."Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) codified the modern romantic comedy, though it offers far more than... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Best and Worst Film Viewings of 2016
2016: The Bubonic Plague of YearsUgh.Nobody needs reminding that 2016 has been monumentally awful - politically, culturally, socially and personally. Read more
Posted on 29 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
RIP Carrie Fisher
“People want me to say that I’m sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined. Read more
Posted on 28 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Best & Worst Books Read in 2016
Vice President Agnew with his literary masterpieceI've only done a book list once. This year seemed a good time to revisit the idea, considering that I read a... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
Remember the Night
Several years before plotting murder in Double Indemnity, Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray teamed up on this sweet-natured Christmas comedy. Read more
Posted on 26 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES -
History: The Know-Nothing Party's Rise, Fall and Legacy, 1856
The Nativist movement's violence exploded exponentially at the same time it became most respectable. In the mid-1850s, decades of anti-Catholic nationalism,... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES