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Just Kidding: A Generation Later, ‘Parenthood’ Still Brings It All Back Home
Though we GenXers might look back on our favorite ’80s films with some chagrin, “Parenthood” (1989) holds up. […]
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Why Fox Nearly Pulled the Plug On the Original ‘Star Wars,’ the Biggest Space Epic of All Time
The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought. […]
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‘So Glad You’re Here’: Sharing Mom’s Last Days with ‘The Incredibles’
It’s an all-time personal favorite. It was also the last movie I watched with my mom. […]
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Words Like Bullets: How ‘Sweet Smell’ Met with Success
Why ‘Sweet Smell’ Succeeded […]
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Coming Out: Growing up with ‘Saving Face’
By Donna J. Choo I grew up in Hawai‘i, on the island of O‘ahu, where my moviegoing love began at […]
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Kiss Me, Deadly: The Life Lessons of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’
One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking me into Manhattan from Brooklyn one gloomy morning, on a subway train crossing the East River. […]
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TAIL POP: The Enduring Wisdom of Indiana Jones
The enduring wisdom of Indiana Jones […]
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TAIL POP: The Enduring Influence of Jean-Luc Godard and ‘Band of Outsiders’
I grew up in a Long Island suburb among people about whom a friend once said, “If they can’t eat it or wear it, they don’t want it.” […]
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Tail Pop: How the Film Cult Classic ‘Harold And Maude’ Inspired a Generation
How a Kid Found the Heart in “Harold And Maude.” […]
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How Terence Malick’s ‘Badlands’ Reinvented Moviegoing
It was the summer of 1974, and for my sister and me, there was a gross injustice in the world. I could tell you that the injustice involved saving the whales or impeaching Nixon—but we were entitled teenagers who lived near the beach and equated tanning with personal fulfillment; our outrage was over the fog being in all day. […]
