Douglas Sirk’s signature on the 24-page (!) contract he signed with Universal before making Imitation of Life, which Leo Lensing rescued from a Baltimore book dealer. Read more
I’ve just watched Daniel Schmid’s La Paloma which has almost immediately joined the ranks of my personal canon. Read more
Thought:
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”