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Under Pressure: Michael Curtiz’s THE BREAKING POINT

Jun 4, 2018 Jeremy Carr 0

Howard Hawks supposedly bet Ernest Hemingway that he could make a good movie out of the author’s worst book. That book, it was decided, was Hemingway’s 1937 novel, “To Have and Have Not.” And the […]

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Bogart and Bacall: A Four Film Retrospective

Jun 8, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

He, the long-faced tough guy with the weary eyes. She, the sultry stunner with a voice and look that could crumble city walls. When they first met, he’d crawled his way up from theatre and […]

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See You on FLAMINGO ROAD

Jun 1, 2017 Jacquie Allen 1

I recently screened Dancing Lady, an early Joan Crawford vehicle made when she was under contract to MGM. I was struck by how unlike the persona she was that most people envision when they hear her name. […]

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Jammin’ the Blues (and some other stuff)

Feb 23, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

by Nathanael Hood It wasn’t the first Hollywood film on jazz, but it was damn near the best. Cobbling together some of jazz’s leading luminaries in 1944, Life photographer Gjon Mili shot his first and […]

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10 Great Movie Music Moments

Feb 14, 2017 Wade Sheeler 2

by Wade Sheeler There are those moments in a good movie, very fleeting, when direction, plot and music all meld to deliver a message that is such a pure hybrid that no other medium could […]

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Warner Archive Hollywood Legends of Horror: Six Weirdo Pre-Code Horrors

Jan 25, 2017 Patrick King 0

It took me a second to figure out the connecting threads between the movies in the Hollywood Legends of Horror collection, recently released through Warner Archive, and it’s kind of cool. They’re all pre-code low budget […]

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