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Get Smart, Get Barbara! Ms. Feldon Purred
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Ms. Feldon in 1967.
By the mid-60’s, the standard that had been established for sitcoms in the previous decade&mda read more »
New Brando Collection: Reflections Goes Gold
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Marlon Brando in Reflections in a Golden Eye.
Studios almost never admit to being wrong. read more »
New Brando Collection: Reflections Goes Gold
Studios almost never admit to being wrong. read more »
Revolutionary Romance: Lefties Look for Love
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Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.
The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th centu read more »
Revolutionary Romance: Lefties Look for Love
The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th century, read more »
La Dolce Vita? Nah!- Amarcord Is Even More Fun
Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. read more »
La Dolce Vita? Nah!— Amarcord Is Even More Fun
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Federico Fellini in 1955, arriving from Rome at Idlewild Airport (now J.F.K.), New York.
Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. read more »
The Asexual Femme Fatale: Indemnity's Stanwyck
Her shoes should have warned him. read more »
The Asexual Femme Fatale: Indemnity’s Stanwyck
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Barbara Stanwyck in 1936.
Her shoes should have warned him. read more »
Don't You Forget About Me: The Genius of John Hughes
For a certain generation, the films of John Hughes were a perfect pop-culture mirror of what it mean read more »
Don’t You Forget About Me: The Genius of John Hughes
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Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald, April 1985.
For a certain generation, the films of John Hughes were a perfect pop-culture mirror of what it mean read more »
The Girl Can’t Help It: Jayne Mansfield’s Allure
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Jayne Mansfield, 1933-1967.
If part of Hollywood’s appeal is the lure of the artificial—not the entirety of its appe read more »
The Girl Can't Help It: Jayne Mansfield's Allure
If part of Hollywood’s appeal is the lure of the artificial—not the entirety of its appeal, but read more »
Richardson’s Lively Disaster: Waugh’s The Loved One
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British film director Tony Richardson (1928-1991).
Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs o read more »
Richardson's Lively Disaster: Waugh's The Loved One
Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs o read more »
Stagecoach: Is There Such A Thing as an Anti-Western?
Stagecoach is to American movies what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to American literature. read more »
Stagecoach: Is There Such A Thing as an Anti-Western?
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Director John Ford in 1947.
Stagecoach is to American movies what The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is to American literature. read more »
No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway’s Mommie Returns
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Faye Dunaway, 1986.
When Louis B. read more »
Williams and Kazan's Baby: Why the Church Went Nuts
Few things are left to give one a sense of constancy in this world, so it’s nice to know the Catho read more »
Williams and Kazan’s Baby: Why the Church Went Nuts
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American playwright Tennessee Williams in London, 1959.
Few things are left to give one a sense of constancy in this world, so it’s nice to know the C read more »
De Palma's Masterpiece: A Casualty of the Box Office
It would be nice to think that with the release of the new extended cut of Casualties of War, Brian read more »
De Palma’s Masterpiece: A Casualty of the Box Office
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Brian De Palma.
It would be nice to think that with the release of the new extended cut of Casualties of War, Brian read more »
Screwball’s Garbo? Carole Lombard Wants Fun
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The sharpshooter: Carole Lombard (1908-1942) in Hollywood.
If you accept the world of screwball comedy as an alternate universe, with a logic inside its seemin read more »
Screwball's Garbo? Carole Lombard Wants Fun
If you accept the world of screwball comedy as an alternate universe, with a logic inside its seemin read more »
Generous Criterion Set Challenges Myths of Malle
If there were any justice in the movies, we still wouldn’t have to make the case for Louis Malle a read more »
Generous Criterion Set Challenges Myths of Malle
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The misunderstood French filmmaker Louis Malle in 1974.
If there were any justice in the movies, we still wouldn’t have to make the case for Louis Mal read more »
That Scary 70's New York- Dog Days, But No Cynicism
The freak show that was 70’s New York both on- and off-screen can be summed up by the kicker of Pa read more »
That Scary 70’s New York— Dog Days, But No Cynicism
Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon.
The freak show that was 70’s New York both on- and off-screen can be summed up by the kicker o read more »
Where Are You, Whit? Criterion Does Metropolitan
Midway through Metropolitan, the preppy cast riffs on Luis Buñuel’s unflattering portrayal of the read more »
Where Are You, Whit? Criterion Does Metropolitan
Midway through Metropolitan, the preppy cast riffs on Luis Buñuel’s unflattering portra read more »
The American Man: Cary Grant Gets Dazzling Set
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”—Cary Grant.
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The American Man: Cary Grant Gets Dazzling Set
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Cary Grant (1904-1986), who was born Archibald Leach, in England.
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”—Cary Grant.
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Peckinpah’s Obsessions: Aging Men, and Marriage
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Director Sam Peckinpah.
When a director has been as condemned and lionized as Sam Peckinpah has, it’s inevitable that read more »
Peckinpah's Obsessions: Aging Men, and Marriage
When a director has been as condemned and lionized as Sam Peckinpah has, it’s inevitable that the read more »
A Gorgeous Tribute to Ozu, Hou’s Café Requires Patience
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Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien.
The suggestion that there are some filmmakers we have to work to appreciate often implies that movie read more »
A Gorgeous Tribute to Ozu, Hou's Café Requires Patience
The suggestion that there are some filmmakers we have to work to appreciate often implies that movie read more »
Pam Grier More Than Foxy; Nothing Tops Jackie Brown
Has any honest-to-God movie star ever been given sleazier settings in which to shine than Pam Grier? read more »
Pam Grier More Than Foxy; Nothing Tops Jackie Brown
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Bound: Pam Grier in Foxy Brown
Has any honest-to-God movie star ever been given sleazier settings in which to shine than Pam Grier? read more »
Audrey and Albert Share Swingin' Memories of a Marriage
In 1967, a Time magazine cover story trumpeted “The Shock of Freedom in Films,” praising Hollywo read more »
Two-Faced Woman? The Glory of Garbo
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That strange Swede: Greta Garbo (1905-1990) in 1941.
The parodists have it wrong. read more »
They Can't Take That Away … New Boxset for Fred and Ginger
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The Last Dance: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, from the musical The Barkleys of Broadway.
The screen persona of Fred Astaire is more enduringly charismatic than that of any other musical per read more »
Thick as Thieves in Thin Man: Nick and Nora Stay Young
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William Powell as private detective Nick Charles.
Myrna Loy makes her entrance as Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934) preceded by a dog’s butt. read more »
Thick as Thieves in Thin Man: Nick and Nora Stay Young
Myrna Loy makes her entrance as Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934) preceded by a dog’s butt. read more »
John Boorman Gets Revenge: Point Blank, A Hollywood Tale
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Lee Marvin, sitting in the roof garden of the Dorchester Hotel, London, 1966.
John Boorman Gets Revenge: Point Blank, A Hollywood Tale
Of all the disjunctions in John Boorman's seminal 1967 noir Point Blank, none is more jarring than t read more »
Lovable-and Brilliant!-Lunacy: Remember David and Maddie?
It's been 20 years since David Addison and Maddie Hayes set up shop together at the Blue Moon Detect read more »
The Last Gasp of the 1950's, In Trashy, Sexy Cinemascope
Thanks to the auteur theory, instead of a lot of antiquated factory product and the studio P. read more »
Upmarket, Tastefully Dirty And Deeply Uninvolving
God having lavished so much on the exterior, Natalie Portman doesn't deserve an inner life. read more »
Arrogant Bastard's Contempt Enlivens Waspish Melodrama
Darryl Zanuck loved the story but hated the choice of writer-director-an "arrogant bastard" with "fo read more »
