One movie a day for 365 days - just the movies I like. 22/365: Blood and Sand. Three of the most beautiful stars ever captured in stunning Technicolor. We're never grateful enough for Rouben Mamoulian's contribution to the movies.
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22/365 movies I love
Napoleon (1927). One of my most memorable moviehouse experiences was seeing this with Carmine Coppola in the orchestra pit conducting his own score. (O’Keefe Centre, Toronto, March 1982.)
There was an Argentine novel by Manuel Puig knocking around bookstores during my childhood called “Betrayed by Rita Hayworth”. I didn’t understand why they were picking on her until I saw Blood & Sand.
Too true. Mamoulian never gets the credit he deserves. I always point to that stairway shot near the end of City Streets to prove that early talkies didn't have to be so static. They just needed really great, innovative directors.
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Napoleon (1927). One of my most memorable moviehouse experiences was seeing this with Carmine Coppola in the orchestra pit conducting his own score. (O’Keefe Centre, Toronto, March 1982.)