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Sergei Eisenstein: purveyor in Russian formalism

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Me and Orson Welles: an interview with Christian McKay

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A hypersensitivity to the Velvet Underground and one of it’s early backers, Andy Warhol

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Joseph Cotten stars in camp classic Latitude Zero

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Sergei Eisenstein: purveyor in Russian formalism

Rather than calling this week’s column a homework assignment, look upon it as a chance to reacquaint yourself with one of cinema’s founding fathers, the man who gave editing its ...

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Me and Orson Welles: an interview with Christian McKay

Speaking with Christian McKay was the closest I would ever come to meeting Orson Welles in this lifetime. McKay (pronounced “Mc-KYE”) made his screen debut in Richard Linklater’s Me and ...

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A hypersensitivity to the Velvet Underground and one of it’s early backers, Andy Warhol

This week’s trio skipped town before I could get around to covering them. Coming soon to a blu-ray or streaming service near you. Drive My Car (2021) In the shadows ...

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Joseph Cotten stars in camp classic Latitude Zero

Let’s harken back to a time when DVDs were arranged on the rental rack spine side out and alphabetically by title. One never knew what unknown riches were just a ...

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The revelation and revival of 3-D

I am a sucker for 3-D. The eye sees in three dimensions, why shouldn’t a moviegoer? Three of the five major technological advances that cinema would undergo in the first 126 years of its history ...

October 22, 2021

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Celebrate the 27th James Bond film with the 6th James Bond film

To celebrate the release of the 27th James Bond film, might I humbly suggest that some time before or after you make time for No Time to Die, that you spend 142 minutes in the ...

October 15, 2021

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October 10, 2021

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis — ninety-four years after its release

It’s all out there somewhere: the Pomona preview print of The Magnificent Ambersons; the missing reels of Eric von Stroheim’s Greed; Lon Chaney’s uncut London After Midnight; even the pie fight from Dr. Strangelove is ...

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October 1, 2021

Scott Marks’ kindest cut

“Testing! Testing!” The voice still worked. No sign of hearing impairment either. It was 3:50 p.m. and in the time it took to tilt my head clockward, a nurse was at my side. “Would you ...

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September 26, 2021

Tony Bennett’s first and last dramatic performance

What can be said of an ensemble drama in which Milton Berle gives the best performance? Or a searing indictment of the Oscars that couldn’t have been made without producer Joseph E. Levine first obtaining ...

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September 17, 2021

The Carpetbaggers part two: Elizabeth Ashley makes her screen debut

My analysis of The Carpetbaggers was pitched as either a cover story or a column entry to be presented in two parts. Guess who lost the coin toss. Here’s part two. The Carpetbaggers (1964) Somewhere ...

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September 10, 2021

The Carpetbaggers: Howard Hughes saga takes flight and conquers Hollywood!

Chicago was one of the last major markets to be wired for cable. (Everybody got their cut!) My first Jerrold Box offered 4 channels, one of which was TBS. Bill Tush hosted a Sunday morning ...

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September 3, 2021

The better Casino Royale

No, not that Casino Royale. The other, better one! Casino Royale (1967) We open with a postscript that can be found in the supplementary section of the DVD: it was Peter Sellers who suggested Orson ...

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Airport ’77 : the spirit is willing, but the script is weak

What’s bigger, more exciting, and two years older than Airport 1975? Airport ‘77! Airport ’77 (1977) In Airport, the Arthur Hailey original, disaster struck in the form of mad bomber Van Heflin, while the 747 ...

August 27, 2021

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Airport 1975: credits read like a Love Boat passenger manifest

If this dive into Airport 1975 were any deeper, it would have crashed! Airport 1975 (1974) It was the first of three officially sanctioned sequels to Airport, the obscenely successful air-disaster soap opera based on ...

August 20, 2021

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August 13, 2021

Three of Jean Arthur’s Columbia comedies

Many performers lost their careers during Hollywood’s transition to sound, but Jean Arthur literally found her voice in talkies. And don’t let the pink and squishy sounds it radiates fool you: Ms. Arthur was a ...

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August 6, 2021

Goodbye, Columbus: this critic's first R rated film

What was the first film to receive an R rating from the MPAA? Not The Graduate, which was classified Adults Only, but The Split, a crime drama starring Jim Brown and Diahann Carroll. Do you ...

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Sergei Eisenstein: purveyor in Russian formalism

Me and Orson Welles: an interview with Christian McKay

A hypersensitivity to the Velvet Underground and one of it’s early backers, Andy Warhol

Joseph Cotten stars in camp classic Latitude Zero

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