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Month: October 2018

Movies

DEAD MAN Tells Quite a Tale

Oct 18, 2018 Nathanael Hood 0

The accountant sits in the train and slips in and out of consciousness as the American countryside rushes in and out of focus, racing itself further and further into the past. The forests give way […]

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California Dreaming: MODEL SHOP

Oct 17, 2018 Jeremy Carr 0

Just a few years after directing two of the greatest musicals ever made, French auteur Jacques Demy set his sights on the land that had pioneered the genre he so adored. Arriving in Los Angeles […]

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Long Live THE KING OF JAZZ?

Oct 16, 2018 Nathanael Hood 1

Director Lloyd Bacon and choreographer Busby Berkeley’s 42nd Street has rightfully been heralded as a masterpiece, but less can be said for the film that inspired it: John Murray Anderson’s King of Jazz (1930). One […]

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Suddenly, Last Summer Still Shocks

Oct 5, 2018 Jacquie Allen 0

One of the first movies I saw ever saw in a film class was Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer. At the age of 18, a lot of the subject matter flew right over my head. Re-watching […]

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Modern Problems in HELL AND HIGH WATER

Oct 4, 2018 Andy Ross 0

In the early 1950s, Hollywood went into a “television panic.” Scared to death that their audiences were being eaten up by “that box,” the major studios were desperate to get their audiences back into the […]

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