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HOW TO PITCH A MOVIE…AND MORE
It’s long been a joke in Hollywood that the only way to sell a movie is to compare it to a previous hit. But what’s a joke to some people is a tutorial for others.
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ANDRÉ PREVIN: A WELCOME RETURN
One of the first records I ever purchased was André Previn’s jazz version of "My Fair Lady"….and I’ve never fallen out of love with this wonderful album.
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A FOND FAREWELL TO ANNETTE FUNICELLO
For baby boomers, the news of Annette Funicello’s death hits hard. Millions of us came home from school every day to watch "The Mickey Mouse Club," and she was one of the most popular Mouseketeers.
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ROGER EBERT: MORE THAN JUST A CRITIC
I’m still in a state of shock over the news of Roger Ebert’s death, at age 70, so soon after going public about the recurrence of cancer in his system—and promising to file reviews as often as possible. That’s the Roger Ebert I’m thinking about right now: not the influential critic or the lifelong n...
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JOHN FORD’S FAVORITE FILM
I don’t know if "The Sun Shines Bright" (1953) is John Ford’s most neglected film—there are numerous candidates on the Old Master’s résumé—but it is the one he cited as his personal favorite.
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ON THE ROAD FOR TCM
For the second year, I’ve been asked to host two evenings in Turner Classic Movies’ “Road to Hollywood ” series—last week with Jane Powell in Cambridge, Massachusetts and this week with Mitzi Gaynor in Chicago. Need I add that it’s been great fun?
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RYAN GOSLING AND BRADLEY COOPER—ON 35mm FILM
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of screening "The Place Beyond the Pines," which opens in theaters March 29, for my class at USC School of Cinematic Arts. My guests were producer Jamie Patricof and co-writer/director Derek Cianfrance, who made a deliberate decision to shoot his feature on 35mm film...
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PREMATURE BURIAL FOR 35mm FILM
In the midst of doom and gloom regarding the future of 35mm and digital cinema overtaking the movie industry, I received a press release from Eastman Kodak several weeks ago, boasting that six of this year’s Best Picture Oscar nominees were shot on Kodak film:
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THE 3 STOOGES: LOST, FOUND, AND UNSEEN
By now you may have read about the exciting discovery of a long-lost two-reel short subject, "Hello Pop" (1933) starring Ted Healy and his Stooges. A 35mm nitrate print, in two-color Technicolor, turned up in a private collection in Australia and is now being restored at a Los Angeles laboratory by ...
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BUGS BUNNY’S OSCAR BATTLE
Did you know there was a furor over two strikingly similar cartoons—one from MGM with Tom and Jerry, one from Warner Bros. with Bugs Bunny—back in 1946?
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