François Truffaut’s French New Wave masterpiece Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim, 1962) provides a great primer for those curious viewers trying to unravel the complexities and beauty of the film movement. To provide a bit of […]
It might be sacrilege to even “think” this, but I prefer What Price Hollywood? to A Star Is Born, both the original and the Judy Garland/George Cukor remake that is the Holy Grail of “Redemptive […]
Oh, the great Hollywood biopic. You beautiful, hot mess of a movie genre, you. You’re kind of like Longfellow’s proverbial little girl with the little curl: when you are good, you are very good indeed […]
The brief 26 years of Jean Harlow’s life were marked with tragedy, disappointments, heartbreak and, of course, a tremendously successful screen career. Her intensely sensual on screen presence ignited American movies and gave the world […]
Watching any Woody Allen film today brings a whole load of baggage along with it. Deeper meaning, revelatory dialogue, scenes, jokes, plots – everything is up for reinterpretation and dissection. However you feel about the […]
85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards (Abbeville Press, 464 pages, $75) By Robert Osborne In 1979, Robert Osborne published the book 50 Golden Years of Oscar: The Official History […]
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