by NRB | 16 Oct 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Call me superficial, but several quotes from films stay with me permanently and surface in my consciousness from time to time. One in particular I repeat at what I deem to be an appropriate moment. Whenever I consider that I’ve done something generous towards a family...
by NRB | 3 Oct 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
People re-read books. Jean claims that for many years she re-read Wuthering Heights every couple of years and I have no reason to doubt her. I cannot say how many times I’ve re-read Somerset Maugham’s short stories or Hemingway’s story ‘Fifty Grand’ or the first...
by NRB | 23 Aug 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
My three best private eye films are as follows – in chronological order: 1 The Maltese Falcon (1941). Various stories attach to the making of this film. One, that John Huston gave Dashiell Hammett’s novel to a script assistant with the instruction to ‘just...