Badlands – Working Titles
When Badlands was released in 1973, no one had seen anything like it. It’s not that the story was unique, renegade…
Working Titles
We’ve previously examined the shifting cultural image of denim in the movies throughout the twentieth century. In this series, we plan on taking a closer look at specific films with a denim and workwear aesthetic, aka Working Titles.
The Great Escape: Working Titles
In 1943, seventy-six Allied prisoners tunneled their way out of the the “Stalag Luft III” POW camp in western Nazi-occupied…
Working Titles: The Sandlot
“You’re killing me Smalls!” The timeless phrase bemoaned by Hamilton, “The Great Hambino,” Porter. For anyone in their 20s and early…
Working Titles: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
In 1962, JFK was still alive, Muhammad Ali was still known as Cassius Clay, the counterculture was still confined to…
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Working Titles: Jaws
1975 was a banner year for amateur marine biology, shark sightings all over the United States more than tripled. And…
Working Titles: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Forty-nine years; that’s how long A Charlie Brown Christmas has been kicking around. But the network had little to no faith at…
Working Titles – Dallas Buyers Club
We’re in the middle of what’s been called the “McConaissance”, the glorious period where Matthew McConaughey’s acting talents and onscreen…
Working Titles: No Country For Old Men
The angel of death wears a trucker jacket and the worst Beatle mop you’ve ever seen. That’s Anton Chigurh, cinema’s most…
Working Titles: The Shining
As the days get shorter, the nights get colder, and venturing outside becomes more painful than pleasant, one movie always…
Working Titles: Taxi Driver
New York in the late 1970s was a fairly miserable place. Before Bloomberg and Guiliani, the Big Apple was degrading…