It seems that wherever Andrew Jarecki goes, trouble follows. Take the director’s first film, 2004’s Capturing the Friedmans. Jarecki intended to make a documentary about entertainers at children’s parties. While focusing on popular kids’ clown David Freidman, he discovered that…
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It’s Christmas toons time, as guest writer Charles Wiebe counts down his 10 favorite animated Yuletide treats. A Charlie Brown Christmas, Mickey Christmas Carol, and The Polar Express make his “nice” list; see how it stacks up to yours.
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Q: I’m still waiting for 55 Days at Peking (1963) starring Charlton Heston to be released. A: You and many others, sadly. The Weinstein Group owns the home video rights, and the library from that company is now being handled…
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Fellow monster fans, there’s a disturbing fact we must face around the same time each year: Few gift buyers immediately associate the post-Halloween holidays with horror movies! The everyday shopper can therefore be forgiven for not realizing that you’d be…
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I became interested in classic film early in my teens. Able to stay up late during summer vacations I passed the time with American Movie Classics. (TCM was still more than a decade away). Despite being weaned in a house…
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Most of you, I assume, are familiar with the story of the frog and the pot of boiling water. For the uninitiated, it states that your average frog, when placed in an average pot of 212-degree water, will wisely and immediately hop…
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In This Our Life: I sought out this movie thanks to an essay by Stanley Crouch, which focuses on the unusually progressive racial politics of the film, and offers it as a counterpoint to Gone With the Wind, which Crouch…
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December 12, 1939: Douglas Fairbanks, dashing and athletic leading man of the silent era and co-founder of United Artists, dies of a heart attack at age 56. December 14, 1939: Seventy-five years after General Sherman set it ablaze, the city…
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Guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: Watching certain films can be a cherished holiday tradition. The problem is that after the tenth time, you already know that the angel gets his wings, the kid gets the BB gun, and it snows….
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