Download or read book We ll Always Have Casablanca The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood s Most Beloved Film written by Noah Isenberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Selection “Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan will find in this delightful book new ways to love the movie they were certain they could never love more.” —Sam Wasson, best-selling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. Casablanca is “not one movie,” Umberto Eco once quipped; “it is ‘movies.’” Film historian Noah Isenberg’s We’ll Always Have Casablanca offers a rich account of the film’s origins, the myths and realities behind its production, and the reasons it remains so revered today, over seventy-five years after its premiere.
Download or read book Round Up the Usual Suspects written by Aljean Harmetz and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1941, a play called Everybody Comes to Rick's went from being a standard World War II romantic suspense film to an exceptional movie, earning Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Harmetz has written the inside story of the making of Casablanca.
Download or read book A List written by Jay Carr and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays -- most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics. The Society is a world-renowned, marquee -- name organization embracing some of America's most distinguished critics: more than forty writers who have national followings as well as devoted local constituencies in such major cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. But make no mistake about it: This isn't a collection of esoteric "critic's choice" movies. The Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society. Some of the choices are controversial. So are some of the omissions. It will be a jumping-off point for discussions for years to come. And since the volume spans all international films from the very beginning, it will act as a balance to recent guides dominated by films of the last two decades (hardly film's golden age). Here is a book that is definitely ready for its close-up.
Download or read book Casablanca Behind the Scenes written by Harlan Lebo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews, behind-the-scenes details, photographs, correspondences, and notes provide an overview of the production of the motion picture "Casablanca." Includes cast list, credits, and reviews.
Download or read book My Lunches with Orson written by Henry Jaglom and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew--FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more--and the many disappointments of his last years"--Dust jacket flap.
Download or read book Rick s Cafe written by Kathy Kriger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 60 years, tourists visiting Casablanca tried to visit Rick’s Café Americain only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a studio back lot. It was a Hollywood fantasy—until Kathy Kriger came along, that is, and decided after 9/11 to bring the imaginary gin joint to life. In RICK'S CAFE, she takes us through souk back alleys, the Marché Central's overflowing food stalls, and the shadowy Moroccan business world, all while producing, directing, casting, and playing lead actress in her own story. Instead of letters of transit, she begged for letters of credit; the governor of Casablanca watched her back instead of Captain Renault; and at the piano, playing “As Time Goes By,” sits not Sam but Issam. She encountered paper pushers, absent architects, dedicated craftsmen, mad chefs, and surprising allies. It took over two years, but now, as Captain Renault says to Major Strasser, “Everybody comes to Rick’s.” Here is the remarkable story of a woman who turned Hollywood fantasy into Moroccan reality and made her dream come true.
Download or read book Reeling Through Life written by Tara Ison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies looks at how film shapes identity. Through ten cleverly constructed essays, Ison explores how a lifetime of movie-watching has, for better or worse, taught her how to navigate the world and how to grapple with issues of career, family, faith, illness, sex, and love. Cinema is a universal cultural experience, one that floods our senses with images and sounds, a powerful force that influences our perspective on the world around us. Ison discusses the universal aspects of film as she makes them personal, looking at how certain films across time shaped and molded who she has become. Drawing on a wide ranging catalog of films, both cult and classic, popular and art-house, Reeling Through Life examines how cinema shapes our views on how to make love, how to deal with mental illness, how to be Jewish, how to be a woman, how to be a drunk, and how to die with style. Rather than being a means of escape or object of mere entertainment, Ison posits that cinema is a more engaging form of art, a way to slip into other identities and inhabit other realities. A way to orient oneself into the world. Reeling Though Life is a compelling look at one popular art form and how it has influenced our identities in provocative and important ways.
Download or read book LIFE Casablanca written by The Editors of LIFE and published by Time Inc. Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful LIFE Special Edition, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Casablanca, is filled with timeless photos of Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Dooley Wilson, and other stars of the iconic wartime romance. Go on set and behind the scenes with these memorable images and with compelling, insightful text. Learn about the making of the film that changed the industry, and discover the stories of the actors and creators of the movie-many of whom were refugees from Hitler's oppression, lending authenticity to the film. By delving into enduring moments and lines like "Play it, Sam" and "We'll always have Paris" and "As Time Goes By" and "Here's looking at you, kid," LIFE: Casablanca provides an intimate and inspiring look at one of Hollywood's greatest achievements. Plus: a special look at Casablanca's cultural impact today.
Download or read book An Army of Phantoms written by J. Hoberman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film critic’s sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era is both “utterly compulsive reading [and] majestic” in its “breadth and rigor” (Film Comment). An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman. Tracing the dynamic interplay between politics and popular culture, Hoberman offers “the most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published, one that takes film analysis beyond the screen and sets it in its larger political context” (Los Angeles Review of Books). By “tell[ing] the story not just of what’s on the screen but of what played out behind it,” Hoberman demonstrates how the nation’s deep-seated fears and wishes were projected onto the big screen. In this far-reaching work of historical synthesis, Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe (The American Scholar). From cavalry Westerns to apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars; from movies to media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, An Army of Phantoms “remind[s] you what criticism is supposed to be: revelatory, reflective and as rapturous as the artwork itself” (Time Out New York). “An epic . . . alternately fevered and measured account of what might be called the primal scene of American cinema.” —Cineaste “There’s something majestic about the reach of Hoberman’s ambitions, the breadth and rigor of his research, and especially the curatorial vision brought to historical data.” —Film Comment
Download or read book Destination Casablanca written by Meredith Hindley and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control. In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across the Atlantic and stormed the beaches of French Morocco. Seventy-four hours later, the Americans controlled the country and one of the most valuable wartime ports: Casablanca. In the years preceding, Casablanca had evolved from an exotic travel destination to a key military target after France's surrender to Germany. Jewish refugees from Europe poured in, hoping to obtain visas and passage to the United States and beyond. Nazi agents and collaborators infiltrated the city in search of power and loyalty. The resistance was not far behind, as shopkeepers, celebrities, former French Foreign Legionnaires, and disgruntled bureaucrats formed a network of Allied spies. But once in American hands, Casablanca became a crucial logistical hub in the fight against Germany -- and the site of Roosevelt and Churchill's demand for "unconditional surrender." Rife with rogue soldiers, power grabs, and diplomatic intrigue, Destination Casablanca is the riveting and untold story of this glamorous city--memorialized in the classic film that was rush-released in 1942 to capitalize on the drama that was unfolding in North Africa at the heart of World War II.
Download or read book Casablanca and Other Stories written by Edgar Brau and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Brau, one of the most exciting South American writers to emerge in the past twenty years, debuts his first English-language collection with the publication of Casablanca and Other Stories. The fiction of Edgar Brau draws not only upon the rich literary heritage of his native Argentina but also upon the body of work that has now rightly been formed into a South American canon, embracing those such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Marquez, and Isabelle Allende. He brings a unique perspective to his narratives—narratives forged in the political and social upheaval that has been modern South America. Employing a fantasy-like aspect that goes beyond magical realism, his work is reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe in his use of atmosphere as an additional character. These short stories signal a new era, much as the publication of Jorge Luis Borges’ Labyrinths in 1962 heralded a coming-of-age for his generation. Translated by Donald A. Yates, Andrea Labinger, and Joanne M. Yates, this collection includes stories from two of Edgar Brau’s collections—El poema y otras historias and Tres cuentos—to bring to a fresh audience the very best new work of a major Argentinean author.
Download or read book Show Trial written by Thomas Doherty and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. The blowback was profound: the major studios pledged to never again employ a known Communist or unrepentant fellow traveler. The declaration marked the onset of the blacklist era, a time when political allegiances, real or suspected, determined employment opportunities in the entertainment industry. Hundreds of artists were shown the door—or had it shut in their faces. In Show Trial, Thomas Doherty takes us behind the scenes at the first full-on media-political spectacle of the postwar era. He details the theatrical elements of a proceeding that bridged the realms of entertainment and politics, a courtroom drama starring glamorous actors, colorful moguls, on-the-make congressmen, high-priced lawyers, single-minded investigators, and recalcitrant screenwriters, all recorded by newsreel cameras and broadcast over radio. Doherty tells the story of the Hollywood Ten and the other witnesses, friendly and unfriendly, who testified, and chronicles the implementation of the postwar blacklist. Show Trial is a rich, character-driven inquiry into how the HUAC hearings ignited the anti-Communist crackdown in Hollywood, providing a gripping cultural history of one of the most transformative events of the postwar era.
Download or read book Quicklet on Casablanca Film Summary Guide written by Elliot Zanger and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less. First released in 1942, over the years Casablanca has come to be known as one of the greatest films in the history of American cinema. With a production budget of approximately $950,000, Casablanca has grossed over 10 million dollars. Casablanca was a major success at the 16th Academy Awards, taking home Oscars for Outstanding Motion Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz), and Best Writing, Screenplay (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch). Casablanca was also nominated for a number of other Academy Awards including Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart for his role as Rick Blaine), Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains for his role as Captain Renault), Best Cinematography (Arthur Edeson), Best Film Editing (Owen Marks), and Best Music (Max Steiner). The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Casablanca as the third greatest movie of all time.
Download or read book Casablanca written by Marc Augé and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Augé was eleven or twelve years old when he first saw Casablanca. Made in 1942 but not released in France until 1947, the film had a profound effect on him. Like cinephiles everywhere, Augé was instantly drawn to Rick Blaine's mysterious past, his friendship with Sam and Captain Renault, and Ilsa's stirring, seductive beauty. The film-with its recurring scenes of waiting, menace, and flight-occupies a significant place in Augé's own memory of his uprooted childhood and the wartime exploits of his family. Marc Augé's elegant and thoughtful essay on film and the nature of both personal and collective memory contends that some of our most haunting memories are deeply embedded in the cinema. His own recollections of the hurried, often chaotic embarkations of his childhood, he writes, are become intertwined with scenes from Casablanca that have become bigger in his memory through repeated viewings in the movie houses of Paris's Latin Quarter. Seamlessly weaving together film criticism and memoir, Casablanca moves between Augé's insights into the filmgoing experience and his reflections on his own life, the collective trauma of France's wartime history, and how such events as the fall of Paris, the exodus of refugees, and the Occupation-all depicted in the film-were lived and are remembered.
Download or read book Immortal Films written by Barbara Klinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : the cultural biography of a film -- Listening to Casablanca : radio adaptations and sonic Hollywood -- Back in theaters : postwar repertory houses and cult cinema -- Everyday films : broadcast television, reruns, and canonizing old Hollywood -- Movie valentines : holiday cult and the romantic canon in VHS video culture -- Happy anniversaries : classic cinema on DVD/Blu-ray in the conglomerate age -- Epilogue : streaming Casablanca and afterthoughts -- Appendix one : Casablanca's first appearances on US platforms/formats -- Appendix two : Casablanca's physical format video rereleases.
Download or read book You Must Remember this written by Charles Francisco and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1980 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Francisco tells the whole behind-the-scenes story of how an unusual and dedicated group of film artists and craftsmen, in the chaos and feverish struggle of a fifty-day shooting schedule, was able to produce a masterpiece.
Download or read book As Time Goes by written by Michael Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous ending in the history of the movies was just the beginning... Did Ilsa Lund and Victor Laszlo make it to America? What happened to Rick Blaine and Louis? Will Sam ever play it again? Are Rick and Ilsa reunited? What secret prevents Rick from returning to America? How did Rick meet Sam? How did Ilsa get involved with Victor? From speak-easies and jazz clubs of Prohibition New York to wartime London and Prague, AS TIME GOES BY takes us on a daring journey of adventure, courage and romance. And of course, there will always be Paris. This is NOT a sequel - there never was a novel of Casablanca nor a novelization of the original film script. It's more than the same old story, but still a fight for love and glory, on that you can rely.
