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The Cinema of Tumult and Discovery: On Judy Garland
“You know, I figure you have to know what you’re singing about before you can get the idea over to other people.” —Judy Garland, Babes in Arms (1939)
It was a year of tumult and of discovery. The Great Plains were ravaged by the Dust Bowl. Amelia Earhart comp...
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Shall We Dance?: The Best Musical Sequences on Film
It’s not just the tracks from musicals that seem to forever replay themselves on loop in the heads of avid watchers. It’s the theatrics, the shift in lighting, and the vibrancy of actors, staying in sync with their dancing partner. It’s the ability to progres...
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Say It Ain’t Snow: Movies to Watch During Your Blizzard
If you’re in the northeastern United States, chances are it looks like the fantasy sequence from that new Gregg Araki film. Thus, it is the perfect time to queue up some films, make some hot cocoa and popcorn, and comment “You’re the worst” on every social med...
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Remake My Day: Michael Mann
Stoic loners, secret lifestyles, blurred moral lines, and slick action; these are the things that Michael Mann films are made of. Mann’s recurring proclivities as director have allowed him to endure and flourish in his storied career, measured in decades and p...
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9 Spectacular Overlooked Movie Musicals
Some time ago, it dawned on me that there is no film genre I love as much as I love the musical. It's the perfect marriage of form and content - Kubrick once said that "film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of m...
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Inglorious Bastard: The Horror of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “A Clockwork Orange”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
I might have been eight or...
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