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A Year With Kate: Quality Street (1937)
Episode 12 of 52 wherein Anne Marie screens all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order In which Katharine Hepburn is an old maid at 30 and sometimes I hate Old Hollywood. It's strangely...
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50 Years On... "The World of Henry Orient"
Here's new contributor Diana D. Drumm to with a trip back to a film that opened today in 1964... We open at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, with all of its bubbles and laughter and cinema. A jury,...
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Spring is Here!
Who else feels like dancing ecstatically? What's on your cinematic mind? Consider this an open thread as we frolic about...
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Ryan Gosling as Busby Berkeley? We're In.
We can breathe easy now. Ryan Gosling isn't actually going to retire from acting. His next project is of course behind the camera (How To Catch a Monster starring Christina Hendricks) but sometime...
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They Live By Night amusing Noah anecdote with Robert Bresson and Dino de LaurentiisAV Club Masters of Sex starts again in July. Wow, that was quick. Pleased I am. My New Plaid Pants have you seen this...
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Oswald Morris (1915-2014)
We just celebrated the career of cinematographer Oswald Morris this past November on his birthday with a visual tribute. I regret to inform that the fine DP has passed away at 98 on St. Patrick's Day....
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50 Years in the Pink
Tim here, extending our unexpected and unplanned tribute to 50-year-old Peter Sellers movies by one day, following Diana’s lovely tribute to The World of Henry Orient. For today marks the 50th...
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Posterized: Lars von Trier
Denmark's most important and most self important troublemaker Lars von Trier is back with the two-part Nymphomaniac. Charlotte Gainsbourg stars as the title character and recounts her lifelong...
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Cannes Watch? The "Return" of Gong Li & Zhang Yimou
Speculating about what might be at Cannes is not something I do so as to prevent the envy but the reunion of director Zhang Yimou with his most beloved muse Gong Li is definitely something to consider....
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Hand Jobs To Christian Bale
JA from MNPP here - you've probably heard by now that David Fincher is being lured towards making a movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs via a script by Aaron Sorkin; the big news yesterday was that...
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"Did you just call us prostitutes?"
Bouncer: All right, down the street." Regan: Did you just call us prostitutes?" Katie: Did you just call us prostitutes?"
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ICYMI
I know you didn't read everything. So I'm giving you homework on a weekend. But easy fun homework. Highlights from the week that was... Jake Gyllenhaal doubled-up for the trippy EnemyKate Winslet...
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Interview: Alfre Woodard on Her Favorite Roles
Alfre Woodard has been an American treasure on screens large and small since the early 80s when she first broke through in a big way with her Oscar nominated supporting role as "Geechee" in Martin...
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Link a Prayer
Hello Cinema our friend Amir started a podcast on Iranian cinema. It's an interesting listen even if you know nothing about the topic, particular the first section on how Amir and Tina came to love...
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Box Office: Divergent's Not Dead
Amir here, with the weekend's box office report. As expected by every single person not living under a rock, Divergent took the top spot, affirming the unfortunate bankability of YA adaptations....
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"Crowd Control"
Pumpkin: A lot of people come into restaurants Honeybunny: A lot of wallets. Pumpkin: Pretty smart, huh? Honeybunny: Pretty smart. I'm ready let's do it. Right now. Right here. Come on. Pumpkin: All...
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Review: Divergent
This review originally appeared in my column at Towleroad Erudite. Dauntless. Abnegation. Amity. Candor. Doesn't have quite the same ring as "Charisma. Uniqueness. Nerve and Talent" does it? But it's...
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"There's a name for you ladies..."
... but it isn't used in high society outside of a kennel." Great Moments in Screen Bitchery #40, Joan Crawford in The Women (I thought it high time to revive this series)
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Women's History Month: Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan and...
Our coverage of Women's History Month continues with abstew on "The Miracle Worker" (1962) Born: Helen Adams Keller was actually born with the ability to see and hear on the day of her birth in June...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
In my superhero clogged mind, Spider-Man 3 has remained the gold standard of a dubious honor: by the time it had arrived you could justifiably feel like you'd seen the whole movie what with the...
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