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Considering the Cinema is a podcast about movies and film criticism hosted by Jason Pyles (aka “Jay of the Dead”), from Salt Lake City. This audio podcast is a free, usually short-form solocast for cinephiles and anyone with an interest in movie news, film theory, movie trivia, cinema history, movie reviews and film criticism. The topic for Episode 003 is “Ephraim Katz and The Film Encyclopedia.”
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Speaking of Edith Head, there are some great biographies on her, with a lot of “insight” (gossip) on the Golden Age of Hollywood. “Edith Head’s Hollywood” and “Edith Head, the life and times of Hollywood’s celebrated costume designer.”
Very cool, Audra. I didn’t know about those books, but it makes sense. I bet someone like Edith Head crossed paths with pretty much everybody back in the day. Have you read them? I wonder if that “insight” is along the scandalous lines of Fatty Arbuckle-level scandal? Call me a degenerate, but I find those old-time scandals pretty fascinating for what seemed like such a conservative era. (I’m sure it wasn’t.) That’s why I’ve had “The Wild Party” (1975) and “Return to Babylon” (2013) on my watchlists, but I have no idea what happened to the latter. But check out these tidbits from “Return to Babylon’s” Wikipedia page:
The feature was shot using 19 rolls of 16mm film supposedly found sitting on a sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Reports of Paranormal Activity: The film’s marketing played up the notion that the film was haunted. Media releases and interviews stated that the actors faces can be seen “morphing” into grotesque shapes in certain shots. There were reports of actors having elongated and webbed fingers, full bodied apparitions, seeing the faces of dead actors (such as Lon Chaney) manifest in shots, and shadows resembling demons or skeletons. Many of the cast and crew had confirmed many of these reports and stated they experienced odd events during production, with Jennifer Tilly in particular describing feeling “watched” and “touched” by unseen forces during filming.
-J