
California Dreaming: MODEL SHOP
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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