88 Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1968)
88 Queer Films Made During theHays Code Era (1934-1968). Six of the movies listed won Best Picture at the Oscars, while a further 11 were nominated in the Best Picture category
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110 Queer Films from the New Hollywood (1968-1980)
The death of the Hays Code and the rise of the New Hollywood saw an explosion of Queer Cinema from “No Way to Treat a Lady” to “Taxi zum Klo.” Here are 110 Queer Films from the New Hollywood.
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My 90 All-Time Favorite Original Movie Scores.
From Korngold and Steiner to Herrmann to Greenwood, Levi, and Britell, here are my 90 all-time favorite original movie scores.
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TheBrownees Ranks the 145 Greatest Horror Movies, 1920 to 2026.
Spanning over a century of filmmaking, and tracing the gamut from slasher to psychological to supernatural, TheBrownees ranks the 135 greatest horror movies from 1920 to 2026. The top 15 are: Psycho, Midsommar, The Exorcist, The Shining, Alien, The Road, Dead Ringers, Take Shelter, Under the Skin, Carrie, Halloween, Rosemary’s Baby, The Substance, Hereditary and Don’t Look Now. Directors Tod Browning, Robert Eggers, Roman Polanski, George A. Romero and James Whale are each listed three times. Fourteen directors are represented twice – Ari Aster, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Zach Cregger, David Cronenberg, Brian De Palma, Coralie Fargeat, Alfred Hitchcock, Tobe Hooper, Jordan Peel, Ken Russell, Steven Spielberg, Jacques Tourneur and Robert Wise. Fargeat, is one of five female directors on the list and the only one to be represented twice. The others are fellow French director Julia Ducoumau, British director Rose Glass and American filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Karyn Kusama. Be afraid! Be very afraid!
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The Great Tunesmiths of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Irving Berlin tops the list with twenty-one songs, followed by Harry Warren with twenty and Harold Arlen and Jimmy Van Heusen with eighteen apiece.
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The Great Lyricists of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Irving Berlin tops the list with 21 songs, followed by Johnny Mercer with 19, Sammy Cahn with 16, Ira Gershwin with 14, and Johnny Burke with 10.
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The Great Cinematographers of Hollywood’s Golden Age
Hal Mohr** is the only person to have won a competitive Academy Award without being nominated for it. Mohr was allowed to keep his Oscar and won a second.
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Which 7 Films Did Hitchcock Make That Were “Perfect”?
Seven films in which every shot, every camera move, every editing sequence is perfect. Four of the seven movies star either Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart.
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Douglas Slocombe: Master Cinematographer
England’s master cinematographer of the sixties, his black and white lensing on Bryan Forbes’ “The L-Shaped Room” and Joseph Losey’s “The Servant” marks one of the high points of British cinema.
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Eleanor and Frank Perry
Eleanor and Frank Perry’s last movie together was their best, a wonderful adaptation of Sue Kaufman’s “Diary of a Mad Housewife”.
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Fassbinder Revisited: A Cinematic Journey
“Fassbinder Revisited: A Cinematic Journey” reveals three masterworks of cinema: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Veronika Voss. And two for television: The Stationmaster’s Wife (also known as Bolweiser) and the 14-episode Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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Eight Legendary Foreign Actresses Who Did Not Make It In Hollywood.
They were the darlings of the art house circuit. Their work in a language other than English is some of the greatest ever captured on film. But Hollywood…
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Joni Mitchell – Painting with Words and Music A+
Joni dazzles in the best of her three live albums. It helps that the show is built around “Hejira”. Of the 19 tracks, 4 are from this album.
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Steely Dan – Donald Fagen: Rated
Rated: the Dan’s seven classic albums released between 1972 and 1980. Rated: Donald’s “The Nightfly” as continuum with “Aja” and “Gaucho”.
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Jesse Plemons Extraordinary Weight Loss: Is it Ozempic?
Jesse Plemons is almost unrecognizable. The man sharing the screen with Emma Stone in Bugonia bears little resemblance to the one who stood opposite Elizabeth Olsen in Love and Death just a couple of years ago. The transformation is so dramatic that the reflexive assumption is obvious: Ozempic — or one of its many GLP‑1 cousins — must be involved.
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