Previously on Streamline
Previously on Streamline
Nicholas Ray’s Directorial Debut: They Live By Night (1949)
FilmStruck has just added programming dedicated to director Nicholas Ray, including six films he made throughout his thirty-year career and one documentary feature directed by his widow Susan Ray. One of the films included […]
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Beautiful Girls (1996) and Settling in for The Big Fade
Can you ever truly go home again? Well, the thing is, and rarely no one tells you this–and if they do, you certainly don’t believe it: when you do finally go back home, even […]
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The Delightfully Perfect Blithe Spirit (1945)
There are countless great movies, but so few are truly perfect. Some of the movies that I consider worthy of the “perfect” designation include Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946), William Wyler’s The Best Years of […]
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Love in Enunciation: Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938)
Aside from George Cukor’s visually stunning musical masterpiece My Fair Lady (1964), Pygmalion (1938), directed by Anthony Asquith (with Leslie Howard receiving co-director credits), is the only other significant film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s […]
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Head For the Bunker, It’s A Carol For Another Christmas!
There are countless film and television adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol, a mainstay each holiday season. The most popular of these adaptations include the 1938 version starring Reginald Owen and Gene Lockhart; […]
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Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life (1956)
In 1955, Nicholas Ray made the technicolor family drama Rebel Without a Cause, which focused on the experiences of teenagers in the seemingly perfect confines of postwar suburbia. The film was not only a huge […]
DWT: Drinking While Talking
DWT: Drinking While Talking
DWT # 13: TCM VIRTUAL CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL
It’s been a while – but we’re back – and just in time for tomorrow’s TCM Classic Film Festival. Thanks to Covid, this will be the second year in a row that TCM is bringing […]
DWT: Drinking While Talking
DWT #12: Movie Music & Absinthe
While we wait for the Biden Presidential Victory to finally be announced, Jill Blake and Wade Sheeler present a diversion to keep your thoughts away from the Trump S#^t-show by offering our picks for great […]
DWT: Drinking While Talking
DWT #11: “Drive-Ins, Bowling & Dives (off of buildings)”
Jill Blake and Wade Sheeler accept they can’t go anywhere anymore, so they program the best screenings for their virtual backyard drive-in and suggest movies and shows you should stream — all from the safety […]