The Sticking Place

Sweet Smell of Success

The Criterion Collection‘s 2011 DVD release of Sweet Smell of Success includes an essay by Gary Giddins, an extract from Mackendrick’s book, a documentary about his life and work, and an interview with former student James Mangold. Here for an article about the film by Ann Hornaday from The Los Angeles Times, here for one by Roger Ebert, here for one by Richard Blackburn from American Film, here for one by J. Hoberman from Village Voice and here for The Guardian‘s coverage. Here and here for articles by Richard Corliss from Time magazine and here for that magazine’s original review. Here and here for original reviews from Monthly Film Bulletin and Sight and Sound. Here and here for articles by Ben Brantley and A O Scott from The New York Times, and here for that paper’s original review of the film. Here for an article about Bruce Goldstein’s tour of the film’s New York locations and here/here for a Vanity Fair article about the making of the film. Here and here for Brantley and John Lahr’s reviews of the 2002 Broadway musical adaptation of the film. The film is also the subject of a recent monograph by James Naremore, published by the British Film Institute. An extract from Mackendrick’s book On Film-Making, about the production of Swet Smell of Sucess, was published in Cineaste magazine, and is available here.