Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links

Much Ado About Nothing

Below, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links (and two takes on varying productions of Miss Marple stories)... as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for your participation. And, as usual, there are likely to be additions to this list over the course of the day, and if I've missed your, or someone else's, post, please let me know in comments...thanks again...

Bill Crider: Mr. Roberts  ...trailer

Brian Arnold: All things Kal-El

Stranger on the Third Floor

BV Lawson: Media Murder

Dan Stumpf: Stranger on the Third Floor

Ed Gorman: Employees' Entrance

Ed Lynskey: Where the Sidewalk Ends

Elizabeth Foxwell: The Notorious Landlady

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Evan Lewis: The Lone Ranger Rides Again

George Kelley: Marple: The Classic Mysteries Collection

Iba Dawson: Much Ado About Nothing (2003 film)

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Suspense (the CBS radio institution and extensions); The Doris Day Show

Jackie Kashian: At A-Kon with voice actor Ms. Lisle Wilkerson

Jacqueline T. Lynch: dance cards in film

Employees' Entrance

Jake Hinkson: On Robert Mitchum

Spring Breakers

James Reasoner: The Borgia Stick

Jerry House: What's My Line?

John F. Norris: A Life at Stake

Juri Nummelin: Spring Breakers

Kate Laity: Let the Right One In (on stage, 2013)

Kliph Nesteroff: Pete and Gladys

The Fox

Laura: Legion of the Lawless; Pushover

Lucy Brown: The Fall (tv series)

Martin Edwards: Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (tv)

Mystery Dave: Three Fugitives

Patti Abbott: The Fox

Prashant Trikannad: Cher in A/V

Randy Johnson: Five Came Back; May God Forgive You...I Won't (aka Chiedi perdono a Dio...non a me)

Rick: The Sons of Katie Elder

Rod Lott: Banned (1989 film)

Sergio Angelini: Playback (BBC radio adaptation)

Murder by the Clock

Shannon Clute: Detour

Stacia Jones: blogathons and more

Stephen Gallagher: The European Science TV and New Media Festival (and here); Eleventh Hour

Television Obscurities: Television Forecast, 1949

Walter Albert: Murder by the Clock

Yvette Banek: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Lisle Wilkerson

Schoolhouse Rock (and Pop and a bit of Rap): Saturday Music Club's E/I Sunday learning annex

Amy Burvall and company's rewriting the lyrics of popular songs and performing them as learning aids to teach history and related subjects:

"Elizabeth I" (a variation on "She's Not There," the Zombies' song)


"The French Revolution" (a variation on "Bad Romance" by Stefani "Lady Gaga" Germanotta)


"The Divine Comedy" (a variation on "Rapture" by Blondie)


The HistoryTeachers playlist on YouTube.  (Thanks to Michael Colpitts for pointing these out.)

Italo Calvino: creating such possibilities, as a "minor writer"

Maria Popova, in her blog, quotes from Italo Calvino's collected letters in translation, in a post Bill Crider directs us to:

'As a young man my aspiration was to become a “minor writer.” (Because it was always those that are called “minor” that I liked most and to whom I felt closest.) But this was already a flawed criterion because it presupposes that “major” writers exist. Basically, I am convinced that not only are there no “major” or “minor” writers, but writers themselves do not exist — or at least they do not count for much. As far as I am concerned, you still try too hard to explain Calvino with Calvino, to chart a history, a continuity in Calvino, and maybe this Calvino does not have any continuity, he dies and is reborn every second. What counts is whether in the work that he is doing at a certain point there is something that can relate to the present or future work done by others, as can happen to anyone who works, just because of the fact that they are creating such possibilities.'

See:

Sam Moskowitz interviewed about Will F. Jenkins/"Murray Leinster"'s prophetic "A Logic Named Joe"

The speculations Jenkins/Leinster introduced in that story were unusually sound...particularly in broad outline...


A copyright-legit posting of "A Logic Named Joe" by "Murray Leinster" (one of the few instances in the pulp era in the US where a writer with the rather UKish name Will Jenkins opted for a more Mitteleuropean pen name such as Leinster, which he used mostly on sf) at Baen Books.

Barry Malzberg's short critical essay noting the significance of Jenkins in sf.

Saturday Music Club: third stream music Bachanalia

Nina Simone: Love Me or Leave Me


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" BWV 645  


The Swingle Singers: Sinfonia dalla Partita n°2 in DOm BWV 826 


Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan: The Way You Look Tonight


The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Golden Striker


Brubeck Quartet (1956 version): In Your Own Sweet Way/Two-Part Contention (on someone's slightly scratched copy of Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport--the music makes it worth putting up with the diminishing pops, I'll suggest, but the surface noise has always been why I've never gushed about the Warmth of the analog vinyl recording process...perhaps the new enthusiasm might spur the commercial release of the laser "stylus" playback equipment that doesn't, unlike a real stylus, diminish the recording however slightly with every playthrough).


The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Swingle Singers: Little David's Fugue


Jacques Loussier: Air on a G String


Mulligan Quartet: Festive Minor