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Month: June 2017

Festivals

DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME Brings the Dead to Life

Jun 27, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

There are countless reasons to rejoice in the TCM Classic Film Festival, held every year in Hollywood. And this past April was no exception.  Beyond the many cinematic pleasures, well-known and obscure that screen side-by-side, […]

Movies

Runaway Train: Arthouse Action from Cannon Films

Jun 23, 2017 Patrick King 0

The schlock-meisters at Cannon Group actually put out a good film when they released Runaway Train in 1985. Not that I don’t absolutely love their weirdo camp films like Masters of the Universe (shirtless Dolph […]

Movies

Spend some time in the Garden of Good and Evil

Jun 21, 2017 Cassie Brown 0

It’s like Gone with the Wind on Mescalin. That’s how the main character John Kelso, of the film, Midnight in the Garden in the Good and Evil (1997), describes his time in Savannah, Georgia. His […]

Movies

The Man Who Shot TAMPOPO

Jun 19, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

Juzo Itami’s Tampopo is perhaps sadly destined to be forever overshadowed by its own reputation as the greatest food porn movie ever made. It’s tragic because behind all the luscious close-ups of scrumptious food is […]

Music

Eighty Minutes of Eye-Popping Heaven: EDGE OF ETERNITY

Jun 16, 2017 Andy Ross 0

You know what I appreciate most about the classic movie era? The 80 minute movie. I love me a less than 2 hour — hell —  hour-and-a-half movie. Doesn’t waste time. Story in, story out, […]

Events

An Afternoon at the Silent Clowns Film Series

Jun 14, 2017 Nathanael Hood 2

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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