John Houston

John Houston

Film Festival Reports

IL CINEMA RITROVATO: REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE BY JOHN HUSTON

By Tara Judah

Beneath the dirt and amidst the scratches of a tired 35mm print is a shade of yellow I have never seen onscreen, so far as I am aware. When the golden title sequence comes to an end I think I will see Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor’s skin tones as I have seen them before, but I am wrong. John Huston, determined to give his screen adaptation of Carson McCullers’ short novel a hue that would reflect (…)

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