Val Lewton Blog-a-Thon.

Michael Guillén welcomes readers "to the Val Lewton Blogathon, hosted by the Evening Class in tandem with the Turner Classic Movies premiere broadcast of Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, directed by Kent Jones and produced (and narrated) by Martin Scorsese." Michael's not only got the schedule for TCM's two-day Lewton fest, he's also rounded up a robust list of online resources and, of course, he's tracking Blog-a-Thon contributors.

"You cannot accuse TCM of underestimating the intelligence, or at least film geekiness, of its viewers," writes Mary McNamara in the Los Angeles Times. Evidently, things whip by pretty quickly at first, but "once Shadows settles into a more standard narrative of Lewton's life and career, it explores most effectively not only the man and his legacy, but also the history of Hollywood, the language of film and the exquisite tension between vision and fear one finds in so many creative people."

Update, 1/18: Michael indexes a big, big 'Thon.

Posted by dwhudson at January 14, 2008 12:12 PM