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Month: April 2015

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Silent Satire and Social Commentary: Must Watch Warner Archive Instant

Apr 3, 2015 The Retro Set 1

We love Warner Archive Instant and so should you! Where else can you find Marion Davies skewering the Hollywood star machine with a cavalcade of silent film cameos and William Wellman declaring war on the American justice […]

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Papa, Can You Queer Me? Barbra Streisand’s YENTL

Apr 2, 2015 Kyle Turner 0

As far as queer culture touchstones and icons go, I somehow ended up missing the train when it came to Barbra Streisand. I briefly went through a Cher phase, I’ve listened intermittently to the work […]

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B-Roll: Fritz Lang’s MAN HUNT (1941)

Apr 1, 2015 Nathanael Hood 0

Fritz Lang, that great Teutonic genius, is usually characterized by critics and historians as having not one, but two careers. The general consensus seems to suggest that his prewar period working in the German film […]

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