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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 […]

who's afraid of virginia woolf
Movies

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? AT 50

Jun 22, 2016 Nathanael Hood 0

At first, the studio wanted Bette Davis. But no, that wouldn’t have worked; audiences could expect cruelty and hysteria from an actress who had proven herself both bitch and beauty queen. After seeing her sit […]

Movies

B-Roll: Mike Nichols’ CATCH-22 (1970) and the Perils of Literary Adaptation

Sep 1, 2015 Nathanael Hood 3

B Roll is a weekly column that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, and the awesome. This week, Our Nathanael Hood is not impressed with Mike Nichols’ 1970 […]

The Fortune
Movies

Prize Wide Shut: Mike Nichols’ THE FORTUNE (1975)

Mar 18, 2015 Kyle Turner 0

In their attempt to wheedle the money out of a sanitary napkin heiress (Stockard Channing in her film debut), Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson jump into the roles of befuddled, sometimes outsmarted, and pathetic men […]

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