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Out Where the West Begins
The Indian-detour (1926), preserved by the Library of Congress. Westerns were ubiquitous when I was growing up. On television and radio, in movie theaters, even at birthday parties, cowboys and their...
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From Toronto to New York: The Fall Film Festivals
Left to right: John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet in Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yazmina Reza's Carnage. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Film festivals used to have...
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Restoring Ben-Hur: Catherine Wyler Reminisces About her Father’s Biggest Film
The famous chariot race from Ben-Hur before and after the restoration. Image courtesy of Warner Brothers General Lew Wallace’s novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was not an immediate hit when it was...
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To Save and Project: Screening Restored Movies
Jeremy Licht in “It’s a Good Life,” from Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). Image courtesy The Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive. The 49th New York Film Festival draws to a close this weekend...
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George Clooney Meets the Press
George Clooney and Shailene Woodley in The Descendants. Courtesy Fox Searchlight. Few movie stars have adapted to celebrity as well as George Clooney. The actor, screenwriter and director has...
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Coming Attractions for 2012: The Great Gatsby in 3D!!
(L-R) Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan and Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' drama...
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How a Documentary Gets Made
Anne Marsen in Girl Walk // All Day My post Watching Movies in the Cloud discussed the implications of streaming movies onto your computer. It focused on the end result: how watching movies on your...
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Classic Movie Theaters: The Palace, Lake Placid, New York
Reg Clark, owner of the Palace Theater in Lake Placid, accepts a plaque recognizing the theater as an RVSP cultural landmark from TAUNY executive director Jill Breit. Courtesy Hannah Harvester/TAUNY...
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What to See at the Tribeca Film Festival
Chinmayee, 14, with rifle at the Durga Camp Graduation Ceremony. From The World Before Her, courtesy Storyline Entertainment. The 11th Tribeca Film Festival opened yesterday with the world premiere of...
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From Summer Blockbusters to Orphan Films
Javier Núñez Florián, Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre in Una Noche. Credit: Trevor Forest and Shlomo Godder. As I wrote earlier, the Tribeca Film Festival ends this weekend with a screening of The...
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