New York's "Essential Pre-Code" Series: Week 3
Daniel KasmanPart three of our guide to New York’s retrospective on pre-Code films.
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New York's "Essential Pre-Code" Series: Week 2
Daniel KasmanPart two of our guide to New York’s retrospective on pre-Code films.
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"Kiss Me Deadly" and More DVDs
David HudsonCriterion releases Kiss Me Deadly on DVD and Blu-ray today and, for the occasion, they're running an essay by J Hoberman adapted from his book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of
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"Topsy-Turvy," World Picture 5, More
David Hudson"Topsy-Turvy is both an anomaly among the films of Mike Leigh and, contrary as it may seem, a Rosetta stone." Writing for Criterion, Amy Taubin explains how it can be both and adds a third vital aspect
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Sundance 2011. Awards
David HudsonRather than simply list Saturday night's award-winners in Park City, let's also have a look at what critics have been saying about each of them. Grand Jury Prize: US Documentary Competition. For the
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The Forgotten: Socko!
David CairnsAbove: Richard Dix in Hell's Highway. Rowland Brown (born with the appealing first name of Chauncey), was an interesting, almost unique filmmaker of the early thirties, who made three films. In those
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The Forgotten: Brown's Requiem
David CairnsClarence Brown made a long and successful career, after getting his start taking over The Last of the Mohicans from Maurice Touneur in 1920 (see last Thursday's article), as a director of MGM romantic