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History of Film 10
History of Film: “Psycho”
Our survey of the 1960s concludes as Kevin Ketchum looks back at Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece.
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History of Film: 8 1/2
I came to Federico Fellini’s 8½ late, but not for lack of trying.
As a dutiful student of Roger Ebert’s Movie Home Companion -- in those antediluvian pre-Internet days the annual installments were bestowed upon me as a Christmas gift every year, then I’d sp...
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History of Film: “The Graduate”
"Hello darkness, my old friend"... Rewatching The Graduate is a true time travel. Not only because it's been almost half a century since Mike Nichols' cult piece has seen the daylight, during which period fashion and music have changed drastically and Dustin H...
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History of Film: ‘Chinatown’
Jake Gittes is an origin story for characters like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
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History of Film: ‘Network’
Sidney Lumet's masterpiece is as important today as it was almost 40 years ago.
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History of Film: ‘Jaws’
There's a single moment in Jaws that reveals why the film remains so much more memorable than most modern blockbusters.
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History of Film: ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Godfather Part II’
Coppola's first two tales of the Corleone family aren't just great crime movies, they're cultural touchstones.
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History of Film: ‘Alien’
Ridley Scott's visual style took the sci-fi horror film to the next level.
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History of Film: ‘Days of Heaven’
Malick's second film is a gorgeous look at two lovers on the run in the Texas Panhandle.
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