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Month: July 2014

Movies

Nuanced Desperation: Katharine Hepburn in ALICE ADAMS

Jul 30, 2014 Kyle Turner 0

Prior to being labeled “box office poison” the mid-1930s, Katharine Hepburn’s career was looking up. And George Stevens’ 1935 romantic drama Alice Adams had become one of the most successful of her career thus far. There was […]

Opinion

AT WAR WITH THE ARMY (1950) and my wife

Jul 29, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

My wife wants me to go easy on At War With the Army. I don’t like the film. It’s based on a stage play, and its roots show too well. Almost all action happens exclusively […]

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Lavish Cynicism: PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (1981)

Jul 28, 2014 Kyle Turner 1

By Kyle Turner I have a strange soft spot for incredibly cynical movie musicals; films that deconstruct the very idealism that the genre set out to peddle. From a deep appreciation of Lars von Trier’s […]

Opinion

Iguana on a Hot Tin Roof

Jul 26, 2014 The Retro Set 1

By CARLEY JOHNSON It’s the heat that makes you crazy. I’m not talking about the dry, arid heat that more or less defines the American West– the kind of heat that, even at 100 degrees, […]

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Out of the Past: Woody Allen, Nostalgia, the Meaning of Life, and Radio Days

Jul 25, 2014 Kyle Turner 2

“I firmly believe, and I don’t say this as a criticism, that life is meaningless.” — Woody Allen I don’t believe that for a second. Saying Woody Allen likes to be perceived as nihilistic is […]

Listicles

10 Classic Movie Gifs You Need In Your Life

Jul 24, 2014 The Retro Set 2

As a highly-skilled, professional procrastinator, I am always on the look out for new ways to waste valuable time. And, like a good friend, I would like to take this opportunity to share the love so […]

Movies

DETOUR (1945): Too Far Off the Beaten Path?

Jul 23, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

By Wade Sheeler For film noir fanatics and fans, Detour is well known, well discussed and well argued. It’s considered one of the great film noirs of all time, embracing the doomed characters, existential plot […]

Movies

How Not to Use the Great Stone Face: Buster Keaton in FREE AND EASY

Jul 22, 2014 Kyle Turner 0

Having seen a majority of Buster Keaton’s silent work (thank you Kino), one of the primary distinctions in his character is that he was never explicitly the Clown. That was a role more suited to […]

Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Christmas in July with Max Fleischer’s Rudolph

Jul 19, 2014 Brandie Ashe 0

Today marks the 131st anniversary of legendary animator Max Fleischer’s birth. Last week over at True Classics, we looked at Fleischer’s gorgeous Superman series from the early 1940s, a series that marked his final work for Paramount. […]

Movies

Acceptance, Forgiveness and Love: The simple charms of BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (1984)

Jul 16, 2014 Wade Sheeler 2

During the early 1980s, Woody Allen was having a particularly fertile period. In the late ’70s, after hitting it out of the park with Annie Hall, forever cementing himself in the pantheon of romantic comedy […]

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    In recent months, the Criterion Collection has released two films from the 1980s that are about the art of storytelling. The first, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride (1987), is a beloved Hollywood classic, based on [...]
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    [This review was begun the same day as the Oct. 27, 2018 Tree of Life shooting.] They killed eleven Jews in Pittsburgh today, gunned down in their synagogue as they prayed round their holy scriptures. [...]
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    I may get some hits for this, but I posit that classic film fans generally do not have as great an affinity for the popular movie comedians of the 30s and 40s, as they do [...]
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    Fire Walk With # Me Too: A Personal Retrospection on Twin Peaks

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    Reviewing a movie you’ve seen a million times over an almost twenty year period is a hard task, especially when it comes to something that has become a large part of your life and that [...]
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    I’m a nut for L.A. history, and when that history melds with the early days of Hollywood, I’m in 100%. So I was very excited to screen LOST LA: The Dream Factory.  Most confounding, was my [...]
  • An Afternoon at the Silent Clowns Film Series

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    The Bruno Walter Auditorium is home to the Silent Clowns Film Series, which boasts itself as “New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase.” For twenty years now, the series has provided the public with [...]
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