In Francois Truffaut’s The Story of Adele H. (1975), love–unrequited love to be exact–is like a virus. It consumes the young Adele Hugo, the second daughter to author Victor, to a point where she stalks the […]
B Roll is a weekly column that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, and the awesome. This week, writer Nathanael Hood tackles an early Ernst Lubitsch’s talkie, Broken […]
Summer is coming to an end, folks, which means this is the eleventh and final post in The Retro Set’s Beach Party Summer! Guest writer Danny Reid brings us his 11th and final entry in his weekly […]
Quiet on the Set! is a unique behind-the-scenes look into the making of films big and small from Hollywood’s golden age. The picture-perfect profile of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was silhouetted by the crimson flames that […]
This is the tenth entry in The Retro Set’s nostalgic look back at the beach party films of the 1960s. The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini: Not Invisible Enough “I’ve heard of love at first […]
It begins with a Dame who can’t stand Joes and a Joe who can’t trust Dames. “All men are all alike—rich or poor—when it comes to women they’ve only got one idea in their head,” […]
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