86 Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1968)
“86 Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934 to 1968):” From “The Bride of Frankenstein” to “All About Eve” to “Reflections in a Golden Eye”
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108 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.”
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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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My 101 All-Time Favorite Horror Movies. Rated.
My 101 favorite horror movies rated. They cover the gamut from slasher to psychological to supernatural to existential to body horror to gothic and Grand Guignol melodrama. And horror-comedy of the Peter Jackson-Edgar Wright variety.
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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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