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Burning Up In THE LONG HOT SUMMER

May 9, 2018 Cassie Brown 0

You can change your name, dye your hair, get lost – and then maybe, just maybe, you might be safe from how profound the story of The Long Hot Summer really is. Love and sweat […]

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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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Birthday Boy Orson Welles’ Greatest Work

May 6, 2015 The Retro Set 0

Yes, there’s Citizen Kane, and The Third Man, and F is For Fake, yada yada yada — but here, distilled in this little clip, is the very essence of the man, the myth, the Welles. […]

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Never Won an Oscar: The Actors

Feb 18, 2015 Jill Blake 3

With the Academy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, February 22, we decided to take a look at some of the best actors and actresses who never won an Oscar for their acting talents. In this gallery, […]

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Lost and Found: Orson Welles’ TOO MUCH JOHNSON (1938)

May 6, 2014 Drew Morton 1

Let’s start with the bad news first:  The discovery of Orson Welles’s “lost” film Too Much Johnson (1938) is not the discovery of an early feature film masterpiece directed by the wunderkind of cinema before he […]

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The Very Necessary “EVIL”

Apr 25, 2014 Drew Morton 1

By Drew Morton In the construction of my noir canon, I set myself two ground rules at the start: I would cover only the classical period from 1941 to 1958 and I would limit the […]

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