Email Author Elliott Stein

2007 Stories by Elliott Stein

• The Original Miss Showbiz

  published December 11, 2007

  "I was what they called a studio dame. I just showed my big boobs and acted flirty. I was the fizz on the soda," Joan Blondell modestly noted in... More >>

• From Sound to Color

  published August 28, 2007

  Rouben Mamoulian isn't much of a case for the auteur theory. He was a great director and a major stylist, but his oeuvre is hardly characterized... More >>

• Alt.Claude

  published August 7, 2007

  The New Wave was launched in 1958 with Claude Chabrol's first feature, Le Beau Serge. Chabrol has since proven himself the most industrious... More >>

• B Season

  published March 20, 2007

  On the occasion of Film Forum's three-week B-musical fest, featuring 49 rarely seen song-and-dancers from the '30s to the '50s, a panel of pundits... More >>

• Film Comment Selects Poorly

  published February 6, 2007

  The eighth edition of Film Comment magazine's showcase of previews and rediscoveries, largely picked from the international festival... More >>

• The Natural

  published January 2, 2007

  Although Sven Nykvist, who died last year, worked with directors as renowned as Louis Malle, Woody Allen, and Andrei Tarkovsky, for all the world... More >>