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Warner Archives has brought out, and continues to bring out, what seems like a limitless supply of classic Hollywood fare. Most of these films will probably never be popular enough… Read more »
Warner Archives has brought out, and continues to bring out, what seems like a limitless supply of classic Hollywood fare. Most of these films will probably never be popular enough… Read more »
In 1953, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin adopted the Neo-Realist technique almost verbatim to create a film about American youth; Little Fugitive. Like Rossellini and the Neo-Realists, Orkin and Engel’s film… Read more »
Burt Lancaster would have been 107 years old on November 2nd. So I thought I would revisit one of my late father’s favorite films starring Lancaster, The Devil’s Disciple (1959)…. Read more »
Director Fred Zinnemann is one of a handful of German directors, including Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk and Robert Siodmak, who relocated to Hollywood in the thirties. In terms of political… Read more »
When you are a little boy like I was when I saw The Red Balloon (1956) for the first time it has an indescribable effect on you. Sure a film… Read more »
Film aficionados and critics alike are familiar with the speculation pertaining to homosexual readings of old Hollywood films, before homosexuality was acceptable outside of the closet in the cinema. Kenneth… Read more »
Although I did not know it at the time, Richard Thorpe is the first director whose career I ever charted as an audience member. And though I cannot find his… Read more »
I was in ninth grade when I first saw this film. It was late Spring, the second week in a row that my father, brother, and I all drove down… Read more »
“The Skipper” was how I knew Burt Lancaster as a kid. His real name was unmanageable to a three year old. He was just “The Skipper” because that’s what his… Read more »
I don’t believe this is Douglas Sirk’s best film. Still, it’s my favorite. It probably has something to do with my background in Catholicism (CCD every Tuesday night). Films that… Read more »