Book Reviews
Winter Reading – And Gifting
Despite what you may hear about eBook publishing and digital books, the publication of books about film on “dead trees” (or paper) is very much alive. […]
Columns
Tail Pop
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
Growing up a twin and one of nine children meant that there wasn’t very much alone time. […]
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Leo McCarey’s ‘Duck Soup’
In Syracuse New York in 1967, my dad’s RCA console TV received three broadcast channels. One of them was the local PBS station. That’s where I first saw Duck Soup, the classic Marx Brothers comedy. […]
Columns
The Reel Housewives of Post-War Suburbia
A Letter to Three Wives was a classic from the day it was released in January 1949. […]
Tail Pop
Michael Powell’s ’49th Parallel’
No matter how hardcore a cinephile you might be, there are always discoveries to be made in an old film never seen or even heard of. […]
Book Reviews
Demystifying the Multi-Cam Universe
Mitch Jacobson helps readers learn the same methods, and perhaps achieve the same results, as the masters of multi-cam. […]
This Quarter in Film History
When Film Followed Television’s Lead
Because the shortsighted Hollywood film industry did not want anything to do with the new invention called television in the mid-1940s, the radio industry took over the burgeoning medium. New York became the dominant center for the first decade of TV, as the radio studios were located in Manhattan. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Shipping Out and Shaping Up
In many American homes in the early 20th century hung a framed poem by Rudyard Kipling, If, which begins with “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you…” and ends with “You’ll be a Man, my son.” […]
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Norman Z. MacLeod’s ‘Topper’
Ghosts. I guess we’re never very far from them. You can’t really see them, but they’re always there. They’re quiet. Every now and then, one pops up, moves the furniture and leaves. You turn around to see the drapes swish and your life has changed. What was that!? […]
This Quarter in Film History
The Last Summer of Innocence
Where were you in ’62?” was the tagline for American Graffiti when it was released 39 years ago, in August 1973. […]
