“The Killers” (Ernest Hemingway, 1927) The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946) The Killers (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, Marika Beiku, and Aleksandr Gordon, 1956) The Killers (dir. Don Siegel, 1964) I’ve never been an especially big fan of Hemingway. I like The Sun Also Rises. Elements of A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls … Continue reading The Killers

The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett, 1930) The Maltese Falcon (dir. Roy Del Ruth, 1931) Satan Met a Lady (dir. William Dieterle, 1936) The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941) Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, … Continue reading The Maltese Falcon

Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry, 1947) Under the Volcano (dir. John Huston, 1984) Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 novel follows Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in Cuernavaca, Mexico,  on the last day of his life, the second of November in 1938. It is the Day of the Dead, when the deceased are remembered by the living, … Continue reading Under the Volcano