The Double Bill Blogathon II
Monday, October 5th, 2009
“The double feature, also known as a double bill, was a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theatre managers would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which one feature film and various short subject reels would be shown.”
-artandpopularculture.com
A shadow detaches itself from the dark staircase and slowly descends into the depths of the void, as if following an unsuspecting victim. Outside, a blonde wearing mink and a veil stands alone in the dark chilly downpour of a drizzle with a lit cigarette in her left hand. A car pulls over and rolls down the window, she leans in and exhales a mist of tobacco smoke. The man inside fans it away with his large hand, his face partly concealed by the harsh streetlight that fails to cut through the front of the car’s top. Then a word is exchanged and the man draws his gun only for the woman to be pushed aside, as the shadow steps out of the camoflauging shade and drowns the man in a flood of glass bullets.
The questionable good wins again, it is time for the Double bills to take to the street and paint the town red. Here are the entires:
- Bonner, Doug: Lucille Ball :: Nathanael West : My Sister Eileen (5th October)
- Ferdinand, Marilyn: Looking for Eric (2009)/ The Castle (1997) (6th October)
- Jourdan, Vincent: Double programme : westerns de série B – partie 1 (6th October)/ Double programme : westerns de série B – partie 2 (7th October)/ Double programme : westerns de série B – partie 3 (8th October)
- Maul, Matt: Sordid Projections (7th October)
- Valluri, Gautam: The Priscilla Proposition – A Double Bill of Guy Pearce in the Aussie Outback (5th October)
