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Month: May 2014

Opinion

Who is Brit Marling and Why Is She Such a Badass Filmmaker?

May 23, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

You probably recognize her. Even if you’ve never seen any of her films, she has the long blonde hair, lithe figure and Millennial stare that are American Apparel and Roxy’s stock and trade. Her most […]

Movies

For the Love of Money: The Bride Wore Red

May 19, 2014 Kyle Turner 0

In Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime, Mrs. Tuppence Beresford makes a remark to one of her clients, a young woman who is slowly revealing the financial and romantic pickle she is currently in. Tuppence says […]

Movies

Dr. Kildare, I Presume?

May 16, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

I’ll admit, when faced with the daunting task of writing about, let alone viewing, the nine Dr. Kildare movies that make up WAC’s Dr. Kildare Movie Collection made between 1938 and 1942, I was a tad […]

Movies

A MacGuffin of a Melodrama: James Gray’s The Immigrant

May 15, 2014 Drew Morton 0

I spent May of 2013 in Paris, shacking up in a friend’s apartment near the Bastille while he was at the Cannes Film Festival.  I had been fetishizing such a Parisian vacation for almost a […]

Events

Lost and Found: Orson Welles’ TOO MUCH JOHNSON (1938)

May 6, 2014 Drew Morton 1

Let’s start with the bad news first:  The discovery of Orson Welles’s “lost” film Too Much Johnson (1938) is not the discovery of an early feature film masterpiece directed by the wunderkind of cinema before he […]

Movies

Joan Crawford & Robert Montgomery Double Feature: OUR BLUSHING BRIDES (1930) and THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY (1937)

May 5, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

Warner Archive Collection has recently released two lesser-known MGM classics as Manufacture on Demand (MOD) DVDs that are definitely worth viewing if you’re a Joan Crawford fan, or curious about seeing Robert Montgomery before he […]

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