A Love Letter to… All About Eve Angela Moore October 8, 2020 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia All About Eve, which turns 70 this year, is mostly remembered for two things: its precise, acerbic screenplay, and its star, Bette Davis, who gives the ultimate Bette Davis performance in the ultimate Bette...
How Fritz Lang Broke Hollywood Joseph Bullock October 5, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Fritz Lang created some of the most indelible images in cinema. Most come from his German films: the rotund spacecraft from Woman in the Moon (1929), Peter Lorre’s panicking child-killer branded with a...
Love Letter: Buster Keaton’s One Week, 100 Years On Jess Goodman September 1, 2020 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “Who would not wish to live a hundred years in a world where there are so many people who remember with gratitude and affection a little man with a frozen face who made them laugh a bit long years ago when...
Debate: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, or Buster Keaton? Carmen Paddock January 8, 2019 Analysis, Debate, Features Stan & Ollie – a lovingly constructed biopic of an ageing Laurel and Hardy – hits cinemas this week. To celebrate, One Room with a View’s Naomi, Louise, and Tom have come together to argue the merits...
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story – Review Josefine A. March 10, 2018 Reviews Hedy Lamarr was a remarkable woman – and for a long time, the general public had no idea she achieved much more than the notoriety of her early career and the fame gained through Hollywood productions....
