It’s been high time for a rewatch of the James Bond film series, and since I’ve been spending my typewriter money on DVD’s at the thrift store these days, my selection of the nice MGM digital restorations with director’s commentary has grown. I’ve watched these movies so often on VHS or on broadcast or cable […]
Category: Typewriters in Film
New Colors and The Fall (not at all what you’re thinking, I promise)
Weapon of Choice: 1962 Groma Kolibri N #N43143 Currently in the eyeholes: It’s sort of a “Thousand and One Arabian Nights” kind of story in a way, where a desperate, suicidal paralyzed stunt man befriends an 8-year old immigrant fruit picker in the hospital which they are recuperating from falls in around the 1920’s. The […]
Mail Call: Here’s all that Christmas mail!
Lucas’ Polaroid: A naked Kolibri, a mini-Nagra, a Hasselblad and a Bonsai tree: Currently in the eyeholes: John Carpenter‘s “In the Mouth of Madness” Mini-Review: part of the Apocalypse Trilogy that also includes “Prince of Darkness” and “The Thing“. I really dig PoD because it’s a thought-provoking Sci-Fi Horror Comedy, sort of, and “The Thing” […]
Breakfast At Tiffany’s: Paul Varjak’s Typewriter
UPDATE: Brian asks below in the comments why I call this machine “red”. The simple answer is “it looks red to me”, but it’s an important question that deserves further examination. He owns a machine of this vintage which he describes as “dark orange”, so the question would be twofold: 1) is the color shown […]
The Typewriters of Naked Lunch
There’s been some uncertainty about what typewriters were used in the movie “Naked Lunch” by David Cronenberg. I’ve remembered them as a Smith-Corona Super-5 body from the 50’s (Bill Lee’s Clark Nova), a 60’s Olivetti Lettera 22 (Tom Frost’s Martinelli) and an Oliver (Tom Frost’s Mujahideen arabic machine). Recently I got into a conversation over […]