WOLF MAN - The (1941)

Welcome back to the scariest, and at times goriest, column here at Film Inquiry: Horrific Inquiry. Twice a month, I will be tackling all things horror, bringing two films back into the spotlight to terrify and frighten once more. And occasionally looking at those that could have pushed the envelope further. Join us as we dive deep into the heart of horror, but warning, there will be spoilers.It’s that time of the year again – the beloved month of horror. While the leaves may have begun to cha...

Surviving the Zam Zam

Last week I gave a talk at California State University Monterey Bay’s chapter of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. The talk is titled "Surviving the Zamzam." It’s a story about my Aunt Jamie and Uncle Fred Henderson and their getting captured by the German Navy while on their way to Africa to be medical missionaries. They were taken prisoner on April 17, 1941 and their ship, the Zam Zam, was sunk. I pieced it together based on 6 books on various aspects of the Zam Zam, some reminiscen...

CITIZEN KANE: T for Technique and T for Tragedy

Citizen Kane is the greatest movie ever made, but it’s not the greatest movie Orson Welles ever made. In his lifetime, he described the movie as a millstone around his neck. No one could ever appreciate anything else he made because it was always held to that impossible standard. With some distance and critical reappraisal behind us, now we can see that he never really failed to live up to the promise of Citizen Kane. If anything, he surpassed it. Kane reinvented filmmaking, but it looks down...

Leyland Cypress (thing) by ianah0 - Everything2.com

Leyland Cypress (thing) See all of Leyland Cypress, no other writeups in this node. by ianah0 (4.2 y) CC Rep: 34 ( +35 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri May 03 2002 at 19:52:27 (thing) 1 C! by ianah0 (4.2 y) In 1888, the female flowers or cones of a Nootka Cypress were fertilized by pollen from a Monterey Cypress. The two parent species would never have met in the wild as their natural ranges are 1000 miles apart(the female from Alaska and the male from California). But the origina...