I returned to Shepherdstown for a repeat viewing of Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting, in an attempt to collect all the allusions to films, filmmakers, and characters that CB drops, geek that I am. I missed a couple, but here is what I could capture in my notes, in addition to those called out in my earlier blog post.
- Night of the Living Dead, George Romero, 1968
- The Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
- The Ox-Bow Incident, William A. Wellman, 1942
- Francis X. Bushman, something-something Heart of the Holy Ghost?
- The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola, 1999
- The Fly, Kurt Neumann, 1958
- Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
- Lodz Ghetto, Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna, 1988
- Gaslight, George Cukor, 1944
- something-something Birnam Witch Burns?, ca. 1961
- From Russia with Love, Terence Young, 1963
- Basil Rathbone in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Alfred L. Werker, 1939
- Marlin Brando in The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972
- Laurence Olivier in Hamlet, dir. Olivier, 1944
- the Star Wars cycle
- Willy Loman, pick your favorite version of Death of a Salesman
- Foxy Brown, Jack Hill, 1974
- Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964
- Dracula, Tod Browning and Karl Freund, 1931
- Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, 1987
Hmm, now that I’ve seen Akerman’s News from Home, I see that certain liberties were taken when CB describes the film: there is only one door, and there are no brownstones.