#LeighBrackett

[brennerrama]

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.”

Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946)

#TheBigSleep1946 #Hawks #HowardHawks #Bogart #HumphreyBogart #WilliamFaulkner #Faulkner #LeighBrackett #JulesFurthman #RaymondChandler

#Moviequotes #MovieQuoteOfTheDay

[geekynerfherder]

Swipe for art #HappyBirthday to author & scriptwriter #LeighBrackett, born #OnThisDay in 1915 #CoolArt #Art #Pulp #SciFi #SpaceOpera #PlanetStories #StarWars #TheEmpireStrikesBack #TheBigSleep #RioBravo #TheLongGoodbye https://www.instagram.com/p/CIgfRQSgsHl/?igshid=1v7j3tb2d5z74

[pulpfictionbookstore]

Lorelei of the Red Mist by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury #ScienceFiction #leighbrackett #raybradbury www.pulpfictionbook.store https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck9iS7zLs3y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paperbacksciencefiction]

ACE Double Novels 40-cent F Series Bundle A total of 2 books, each containing two novels. $5 takes them both. Link in bio to purchase. Current ebay market estimated valued: $9 This bundle is for both the books in the photo. The books look great. Take a look at the photos for the overall condition of the books. . #acedoublenovels #acedoublenovel #paperbacksciencefiction #sciencefiction #fiction #instabooks #bookstagram #instabookstagram #paperback #bookcollector #bookstore #science #scifi #instabook #marionzimmerbradley #robertsilverberg #leighbrackett #keithlaumer #vintagebooks #oldbooks #bundle #scifiart #syfy #scifibooks #acebooks #acesciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CT7C8qmrPFc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[adafine]

Haven’t seen this one in a long time #riolobo #johnwayne #jorgerivero #howardhawks #leighbrackett #jackelam #jerrygoldsmith #bluray (at La Casa De Sweeney) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLo_5yMgfef/?igshid=6tgoa0krwsy2

[jamest541975]

#Repost @justafanoffilm with @repostsaveapp ・・・ Happy Halloween! . Credit: house-of-horrors on Tumblr . . #halloween1978 #halloween #happyhalloween #charlescyphers #sheriffbrackett #leighbrackett https://www.instagram.com/p/CHAkStXl0p8/?igshid=1ohe6lk77erlf

[woelfmad]

Finished the first in this series today, and, like all great things that are fun to do, I shall now move onto II and III.

[drcisko]

Leigh Brackett - The Long Tomorrow (1955) One of the great joys of reading things more or less at random is the amazing discoveries you end up making. I've been reading Hugo nominees, so that it isn't totally random as there's a previous selection and keeping it within genre fiction, and in the 1956 nominees I reach this. I knew Leigh Brackett both from some short stories and as one of the few women writers in the golden age of Science Fiction, but I had never read one of her novels. This is an amazing book that grabs your attention right from the start and never lets up. It's an early example of post-apocalyptic American Pastoral writing, in a nearish future, after a nuclear holocaust America has become a country of spread out rural communities, deeply technophobic and religious. Our protagonist is brought up in a New Mennonite community hearing fairy tales about the past from his very aged grandmother. As he realizes that there might still be hidden communities keeping the forbidden knowledge of the past, he gets a severe case of wanderlust. It's a beautifully written work, a kind of Mark Twainish setting in a post-apocalyptic world with the mysteries of the past being always present. This was a truly surprising work, I had not heard of it before and it immediately jumped into my top 10 of SF novels. Brackett, probably catering to her public, doesn't really explore any issues about women here, this is a men led story, but what we get is, in comparison to other works of the time, a much more socially centred SF, not concerned with nuts and bolts, but with human nature. Ideas about knowledge, nature vs civilization, the bliss of ignorance and the sacrifices that you make from simply knowing things are beautifully explored in stellar prose writing. Amazing discovery. (5/5) #leighbrackett #thelongtomorrow #scifi #sciencefiction #book #books #bookish #bibliophile #bookgram #bookstagram #bookporn #bookworm #booklover #bookcover #apocalypse (at Lisbon, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3p4H1CFclK/?igshid=1mhhgysdtfyis

[freegreatmovies]

Angie Dickinson in Rio Bravo (1959) directed by the great Howard Hawks. Angie Dickinson is still alive at 85. #angiedickinson #riobravo #howardhawks #classicmovie #leighbrackett #johnwayne #westerns #oldtucsonstudios #classichollywood #moviestars #greatmovies #hollywoodgreats #hollywoodstars #westernmovie (at Old Tucson)

[criticalblast]

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70 years in the making! @cirsova Link: http://www.criticalblast.com/articles/2019/03/25/cirsova-publishing-announces-fully-illustrated-70th-anniversary-edition-leigh #leighbrackett via @RiplApp https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvepvi5DjLc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d8llbgymf92t

[brennerrama]

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Gosh! I don’t know. I’m all, I’m all, I’m all, I’m all, I’m all, I’m all, I’m all turned around.”

Sterling Hayden in The Long Goodbye

#TheLongGoodbye #Altman #RobertAltman #SterlingHayden #LeighBrackett #RaymondChandler

#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

[geekynerfherder]

#HappyBirthday to author & scriptwriter #LeighBrackett, born #OnThisDay in 1915 #CoolArt #Art #StarWars #TheEmpireStrikesBack #TheBigSleep #RioBravo #TheLongGoodbye #Pulp #SciFi #PlanetStories #Skaith #TheLongTomorrow #TheSwordOfRhiannon https://www.instagram.com/p/B5xV4tIArIf/?igshid=968zbwhq255u

[pulpfictionbookstore]

Lost Ships - Three Novelettes by Leigh Brackett #ScienceFiction #leighbrackett www.pulpfictionbook.store https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck9h87era91/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paperbacksciencefiction]

The Ginger Star by Leigh Brackett $4 Ballantine Books (1974) This is the first paperback edition and the first book in The Book of Skaith series. Cover art by Jim Steranko. . Overall Fair Condition, Fair Spine With Lean, Binding Tight, Pages Look Fair With Some Minor Folds, Sticker Residue On Top-Right Of Front Cover . . . #thegingerstar #leighbrackett #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CERw7-ZAAAb/?igshid=mog1ani49mot

[doomonfilm]

Favorites : The Long Goodbye (1973)

Long lenses... long takes... long moments... long cons... these are just some of the elements that stand out in Robert Altman’s wonderful take on the  iconic Raymond Chandler novel The Long Goodbye.  

Phillip Marlowe (Elliott Gould), a Los Angeles-based private eye, is surprised by his close friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) in the middle of night, with a request for a ride to Tijuana.  Because he is a nice guy, Marlowe obliges, only to be arrested on his return with news that Lennox murdered his wife.  Marlowe refuses to cooperate, under the impression that his friend is being railroaded, and is jailed.  Upon his release 3 days later, the police inform him that Lennox has committed suicide.  In the midst of trying to piece this information together, Marlowe is hired by Eileen Wade (Nina van Pallandt) to find her missing husband, acclaimed author Roger Wade (Sterling Hayden).  With one foot in the hot seat and the other on the case, Marlowe begins to find information tying the two cases together, while inheriting a third burden : gangster Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell), a man upset about his money that Lennox took off with.  With all of these spinning plates teetering, Marlowe is forced to push forward in an effort to untangle the huge mess.

Technically and narrative-wise, this is extremely strong output from Altman and company.  In regard to that narrative, their take on the Marlowe character, one that has been portrayed by a number of actors (most famously the iconic Humphrey Bogart), is refreshing in the sense that his moral center balanced well against the last vestiges of the hippie aesthetic that remained in the early 1970s.  The times were changing, drugs were shaping the culture and the financial world differently, and ethics begin to shift.  Phillip Marlowe, however, refused to let this crack his code, and it stands out to great effect in The Long Goodbye.  Add in the fact that Elliot Gould is one of the most naturally hilarious people on film, and you’ve got a winning lead.

Many of Altman’s famous technical tricks show up in the film as well.  His eye for choosing locations makes Marlowe’s home aesthetically pleasing.  In single takes where long lenses and effective focus pulling is used, you can transition from Marlowe’s disheveled apartment to his new age hippie exhibitionist neighbors and on to the Los Angeles horizon.  His use of windows is magnificent in the film as well... both the way he shoots through them and the way he uses reflections.  He finds ways to survey areas with pans, or dolly shots, or truck shots, but you never get hung up on the camera moves.  

The John Williams score is particularly unique in the sense that it is a singular composition played out in a vast array of techniques and motifs.  Be it jazzy versions, muzack versions, spanish guitar versions, rock versions, or any other style you can imagine, that chorus gets stuck in your head like a non-repetitive earworm.  At times, the song will switch from style to style within the space of a cut, which should feel jarring or schizophrenic, but instead connects the events taking place despite their proximity to one another within the sprawling Los Angeles landscape.

As mentioned before, Elliott Gould is brilliant in this film.  His easy going yet methodical nature is in tune with that of Marlowe, resulting in him selling an ending with an action not easily attributable to the Marlowe canon.  Sterling Hayden comes on like force in the film, only being bested in terms of alpha-male energy in a surprisingly intense performance from Henry Gibson.  Nina van Pallandt excels as the charming version of the false leads, while Jim Bouton sells the sucker-making role like a champ.  Mark Rydell plays the scorned gangster role pitch perfectly, almost turning the performance into a caricature of the role played, but somehow managing to dial things back enough to be taken seriously while remaining hilarious.  In a nice little bonus, one of his tough guys ends up being a young Arnold Schwarzenegger with an awesome 70s mustache.

It’s no secret that I love Robert Altman.  My goal is to get my foot in the door being a director/actor similar in style to John Cassavetes, but once I get established, I’m going full Altman.  The man has a stellar catalog, and made classic films spanning several decades, right up until his last one.  The Long Goodbye not only finds high placement among that catalog, it serves as a good introduction piece for those unfamiliar with Altman and his work.

[beastlygrizzle]

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Original release; 1980, Special edition release; 1997) Directed by Irvin Kershner Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan & Leigh Brackett Story by George Lucas I've posted this title card before but I'm using a new (admittedly bad) camera and an updated version of the app so I'm taking advantage of any excuse to work out how to do different things with it. #StarWars #EpisodeV #TheEmpireStrikesBack #MarkHamill #HarrisonFord #CarrieFisher #BillyDeeWilliams #AnthonyDaniels #KennyBaker #PeterMayhew #DavidProwse #JamesEarlJones #FrankOz #AlecGuiness #JeremyBulloch #JasonWingreen #TemueraMorrison #IanMcDiarmid #CliveRevill #IrvinKershner #LawrenceKasdan #LeighBrackett #GeorgeLucas