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The Organizer. By Imogen Sara Smith | November 30, 2021. Among Mario Monicelli’s greatest gifts as a director was the expressiveness, specificity, and stubborn physicality of the worlds he creates. This textured, tactile realism is potent in The Organizer (1963), his epic tragicomedy about the nascent labor movement in late 19th-century Turin.
May 10, 2016 · Imogen Sara Smith is the author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy.Her writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cineaste, Reverse Shot, and other publications.
Mar 25, 2022 · By Imogen Sara Smith. Features —. Mar 25, 2022. A man with no memory searches for his past, blundering through a dark labyrinth that is the city of Los Angeles. The film is Somewhere in the Night (1946), and the man, George Taylor (John Hodiak), has had his identity wiped clean by an exploding shell in the South Pacific.
Imogen Sara Smith is the author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City (McFarland, 2011) and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy (Gambit Publishing, 2008). She is a freelance film writer and librarian living in Brooklyn.
Jan 10, 2014 · In Lonely Places. : Imogen Sara Smith. McFarland, Jan 10, 2014 - Performing Arts - 255 pages. Although film noir is traditionally associated with the mean streets of the Dark City, this volume explores the genre from a new angle, focusing on non-urban settings. Through detailed readings of more than 100 films set in suburbs, small towns, on the ...
Feb 3, 2022 · This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we’re featuring a talk from Camera Man: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton, a recent FLC event celebrating the new book from author and Slate film critic Dana Stevens, moderated by writer Imogen Sara Smith and FLC Programming Assistant Maddie Whittle. The conversation ranged from the two authors ...
Oct 12, 2021 · Imogen Sara Smith is the author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Her writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cineaste, Reverse Shot, and other publications.
