This Quarter in Film History
One in Eight Million
Sixty-five years after the semi-documentary film The Naked City (1948) premiered in March 1948, it still reveals much about New York City that has not changed. […]
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This Quarter in Film History
Mad Cowboy
There are no shortage of Huds in high places in our society today. […]
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Robert Redford’s ‘Ordinary People’
It was March 31, 1981. I was celebrating my second anniversary of becoming a union story analyst by watching the 53rd Academy Awards. The host was Johnny Carson and the field of films was perhaps the strongest it had been in decades. […]
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Joe Camp’s ‘Benji’
They say that dogs are man’s best friends. The problem is that I didn’t have a dog when I grew up in the small town of Edinburg, Texas. […]
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Making Love and War
From Here to Eternity (1953) is a transitional film in the American motion picture industry. It is probably the first major Hollywood release to express anti-establishment themes and the new morality. […]
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John Ford’s ‘My Darling Clementine’
I am a war baby who grew up in Texas before leaving for a larger world that included living in Manhattan for 22 years and moving to Los Angeles to work as a story analyst. So, if what I have to say now reads old to anyone, well good — because old has a way of becoming new again, especially when old is as unforgettable as My Darling Clementine. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Sex Sells… a Century Ago
The early silent film Traffic in Souls (1913) remains just as timely as when it was released 100 years ago. The sex slave trade today operates with the same methodology as depicted in this exposé of forced prostitution based on the Rockefeller White Slavery Report of 1910. […]
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Sydney Pollack’s ‘The Way We Were’
The 1970s were years of change for me. I was pregnant with my first child and struggling with the decision to either give up a career that I had worked long and hard to achieve or subject my unborn child to a mother who could be gone more than not. […]
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The Colbert Report: It Almost Didn’t Happen One Night
Eighty years after its February 22 premiere, ‘It Happened One Night’ remains one of the best films Hollywood has ever made. […]
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Robert Ellis Miller’s ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’
I am a graduate teaching assistant in Professor Alan Downer’s Twentieth-Century Theatre class at Princeton University in 1968. Along with several hundred students and a handful of other TAs, I am sitting in a lecture hall, eagerly awaiting Downer’s capsule reviews of the movies currently playing in town. […]
