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“You Must Remember This” Season Two Preview
“Join me, won’t you,” says Karina Longworth, invitingly, at the top of every episode of her podcast, You Must Remember This, enticing the listener into some fascinating new story about old Hollywood. What follows is always impeccably produced, and by turns exc...
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Top 10 Stuck on Transportation Movies
All movies aim to transport us, but only a few do so by such literal means. In honor of the upcoming Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, here are, as far as I'm concerned, the top ten films that take place, at least mostly, within the confines of a single mode of t...
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Top 10 Classic Star/Director Collaborations
With Leonardo DiCaprio & Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street attacking the box office, awards season, and cheap editorials nationwide, it's as good a time as any to consider those very special working relationships between a director and star that tr...
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Looking Back: ‘The Scarlet Empress’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
The first thing I notice about The Scarlet Empress (1934) is Marlene Dietrich's cheekbones. They're essential to the film, as essential as its chiaroscu...
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