Recently, Twilight Time has added two more heady, thoughtful films to their catalogue of oft-forgotten prestige dramas, and these are among their very best yet. Both were made in the early 70s when the Hollywood […]
You can change your name, dye your hair, get lost – and then maybe, just maybe, you might be safe from how profound the story of The Long Hot Summer really is. Love and sweat […]
Mary St. John (Joanne Woodward) is everything David Alfred Eaton (Paul Newman) thinks he wants: icily beautiful, sharp-tongued, and prestigious. The daughter of a family of pompous aristocrats, she oozes fine taste and proper breeding. […]
It’s Jazz Week here at The Retro Set! Put your glad rags on while we cut a rug, because from August 3rd through August 8th the Retro Set is diggin’ the swingin’ beat of some of the greatest […]
“Hollywood at Home provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at the crossroads between the last real glamour years and the TV decade. It is a remarkable portrait of mid-century America.” So reads the back cover of […]
God bless public television. The public funded, by-the-bootstraps programming of the ’80s and ’90s, produced a seemingly endless wonderland of high-caliber, star-studded productions that, oh-so-cleverly, had education, not mere entertainments, at its core. From that […]
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