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Monthly Archives: July 2020
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
How Green Was My Valley is now, and will continue to be, best remembered as the film that “stole” the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars from Citizen Kane. If I have to come down on one side or the … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films
Tagged Arthur C. Miller, Broken Blossoms, Citizen Kane, Donal Crisp, Drums Along the Mohawk, Gregg Toland, How Green Was My Valley, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intolerance, Jezebel, John Ford, Maureen O'Hara, Mutiny on the Bounty, National Velvet, Pollyanna, Red Dust, Roddy McDowall, Spencer's Mountain, Stagecoach, The Birth of a Nation, The Grapes of Wrath, The Informer, The Life of Emile Zola, The Music Man, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Quiet Man, Tobacco Road, Walter Pidgeon, West Side Story, Wuthering Heights, Young Mr. Lincoln
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Da 5 Bloods
Spike Lee’s new film (streaming on Netflix) is simultaneously the most important film of the year so far, yet not necessarily the best one. It’s important because Lee is one of our most important filmmakers, and it’s important because … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods, Delroy Lindo, Do the Right Thing, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Heart of Darkness, Jonathan Majors, Joseph Conrad, President Trump, Spike Lee, Stormin' Norman, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Vietnam
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The Three to See: The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years a Slave
The Three to See: Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years Slave As I wade into where angels fear to tread, I want to make it clear that I am stepping outside the current social discussion … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films, Older Films
Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Benedict Cumberbatch, Broken Blossoms, Butterfly McQueen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Dark Victory, Dodge City, Gigi, Gone with the Wind, Green Book, Gunga Din, Hattie McDaniel, HBO Max, Hollywood, Intolerance, Jacqueline Stewart, Ku Klux Klan, Lillian Gish, Love Affair, Lupita Nyong'o, Max Steiner, Michael Fassbender, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, NAACP, Netflix, Ninotcha, Of Mice and Men, Olivia De Havilland, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Oscars, Prissy, Reconstructionists, Sarah Paulson, Solomon Northup, Stagecoach, TCM, The Birth of a Nation, The Cheat, The Clansman, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Viven Leigh, William Cameron Menzies, Woodrow Wilson, Wuthering Heights, YouTube
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