Posted on February 10, 2022 by admin
From a young age Fredrick Austerlitz was gyrating around the house, no doubt driving his parents crazy. Astaire never considered himself a classical ballet dancer, but his grace and physicality made up for any lack of formal training.
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Posted on December 22, 2021 by admin
Each year, 25 films are added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” Importantly, these are not necessarily the ‘best’ films; rather, they are chosen for their impact on American history and culture.
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Posted on November 16, 2021 by admin
The ten-episode adaptation of the novel is an investigation into the darkest depths of the human psyche. It is a slow (frost)burn as the order of an organized expedition slips into something more chaotic and supernatural.
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Posted on September 15, 2021 by admin
A good heist movie combines tense moments with ingenuity. A great heist movie reveals that the audience was also a victim of the caper the whole time.
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Posted on September 10, 2021 by admin
With a low, refined voice, piercing dark eyes, and a rugged physicality, Yul Brynner’s on screen presence is beguiling. He enjoyed a varied career that allowed him to exhibit a wide range of skills. Whether it was playing gypsy jazz music in a smoky Paris cafe, directing and producing shows in the early days of television, or delivering epigrammatic lines astride a horse, Brynner lived a dozen lifetimes in his brief six decades.
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Posted on September 1, 2021 by admin
There seems to be little that Robert Montgomery couldn’t do. From stage to screen, behind the camera and in front of it, delivering quick one-liners or dark dramatic performances, Montgomery’s rise to stardom was one of breakneck speed.
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Posted on July 27, 2021 by admin
Dive into the deep end and enjoy these spectacular otherworldly sequences.
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Posted on July 10, 2021 by admin
In German, it’s Das Regenschirm. In Britain, it’s known familiarly as a brolly. A shade, or a ghost, is an umbra in Latin. However you say it, the umbrella carries with it a host of hidden meanings. A relatively recent invention—at least in the timeline of human history—it used to signal gauche manners. In modern…
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Posted on May 28, 2021 by admin
Even with its mod 1960s sensibility, its comedy is timeless. The Petrie family remains relatable six decades later. This immutability is due largely to its creator Carl Reiner.
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Posted on May 10, 2021 by admin
“Absurdism is a philosophical perspective which holds that the efforts of humanity to find meaning or rational explanation in the universe ultimately fail because no such meaning exists…. Absurdism implies a tragic tone and feelings of frustration that arise out of the contradiction between the human quest for the meaning of life and its inaccessibility.”…
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Posted on May 6, 2021 by admin
The Guinness Book of World Records holds Sherlock Holmes to be the most depicted character to ever appear on film. There are endless adaptations, pastiches, and parodies, in print, on the big screen and on the small screen.
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Posted on April 9, 2021 by admin
I’ve always been enamored of trains in old movies. It’s probably the gloss of Old Hollywood and was never as glamorous as it appears to be on-screen, but train travel looks so romantic. Plush cabins, sleeper cars, seated meals, large windows with a rolling view. A private cabin where you can quietly read a book…
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Posted on March 15, 2021 by admin
Lawrence of Arabia explores two disappearing cultures at once. Both the English Victorian era and the bedu culture were fading. Lawrence represents the typical disillusionment of the youth thrown into WWI.
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Posted on March 12, 2021 by admin
The Crown recreates seminal events in British history as well as highlighting lesser known pivotal moments.
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Posted on March 10, 2021 by admin
It’s said that her books have only been outsold by Shakespeare and the Bible. Her list of works is stunningly long and she holds the title of the world’s longest-running stage play with “The Mousetrap.” This prolific Dame of the British Empire lived a half a dozen lives—nurse, pharmacist, pianist, archaeologist, surfer—before becoming a full-time…
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