MidCenturyCinema
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60s and 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, aftermath; social-cultural context. Book: Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight
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https://midcenturycinema.org/ 19-06-2015 14:32:11
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HBD Asghar Farhadi!!! MCCT5: 5)About Elly 4)Beautiful City 3)A Separation 2)Fireworks Wednesday 1)The Past
From Us: midcenturycinema.org/2022/01/23/new…
More:
-Giles Harvey/NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2019/01/31/mag…
-Farnaz Fassihi: nytimes.com/2022/02/25/wor…
-✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi: vulture.com/2022/02/a-long…
5/7/43: Jean Renoir's occupation drama This Land is Mine, w/Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
More:
-Leonard Quart/Cineaste Magazine: cineaste.com/summer2013/fro…
-Crowther, impressed: nytimes.com/1943/05/28/arc…
Of timely interest . . . Pure Nonfiction interview with Paul (Medium Cool) Cronin (harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/mediu…):
purenonfiction.net/episodes/185-p…
5/7/58: Arthur Penn's 1st feature, The Left Handed Gun, w/Paul Newman
#3 on François Truffaut's 1958 T10 (#1: Touch of Evil, #5: 7th Seal)
More:
-Nathan Rabin: nathanrabin.com/happy-place/20…
-C Scott/Collider: collider.com/paul-newman-le…
-Greg MacArthur/Screen Rant: screenrant.com/paul-newman-th…
HBD Asghar Farhadi!!! MCCT5: 5)About Elly 4)Beautiful City 3)A Separation 2)Fireworks Wednesday 1)The Past
From Us: midcenturycinema.org/2022/01/23/new…
More:
-Giles Harvey/NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2019/01/31/mag…
-Farnaz Fassihi: nytimes.com/2022/02/25/wor…
-✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi: vulture.com/2022/02/a-long…
More for BOTD Orson Welles:
-Our deep dive/revisionist defense of The Stranger via Cineaste Magazine: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/upl…
-Our Welles-inflected chat w/David Thomson via
Los Angeles Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-very…
-Our take on OW & more, via Boston Review: bostonreview.net/literature-cul…
Congratulations to New York Film Festival Main Slate selection committee member Justin Chang on being awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism!
Very well deserved! Read all of Justin’s new writing exclusively at The The New Yorker.
HBD George Clooney! MCCT5: 5)Hail Caesar! (Coens) 4)Syriana (Gaghan) 3)Good Night and Good Luck (+D) 2)Michael Clayton (Gilroy) 1)The Descendants (Payne)
Interviews:
-erickohn: indiewire.com/2017/09/george…
-Paul Chi: vanityfair.com/hollywood/geor…
-Hadley Freeman: theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/…
A few more for Welles
From us:
-On the Other Side of the Wind: midcenturycinema.org/2018/10/03/new…
-On Kael, Chimes: midcenturycinema.org/2017/06/25/50-…
-Geoff Andrew on Shanghai: bfi.org.uk/features/lady-…
-Film Inquiry @ SXSW/ The Trial: filminquiry.com/the-trial-1962…
-Callow/F for Fake: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
More for BOTD Orson Welles:
-Our deep dive/revisionist defense of The Stranger via Cineaste Magazine: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/upl…
-Our Welles-inflected chat w/David Thomson via
Los Angeles Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-very…
-Our take on OW & more, via Boston Review: bostonreview.net/literature-cul…
BOTD Max Ophuls!!! MCCT5 5)Letter from an Unknown Woman 4)Caught 3)La Plaisir 2)Earrings of Madame De 1)Reckless Moment
More:
-Lopate: nytimes.com/1999/06/20/mov…?
-BFI: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
-Jeremy Carr: sensesofcinema.com/2017/great-dir…
-A Swanson/Film School Rejects: filmschoolrejects.com/beginners-guid…
5/5/65: Godard's Alphaville
Not peak JLG for us, BUT: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff in glorious B&W via Raoul Coutard ➡️ must see
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-Eric Hynes/Reverse Shot: reverseshot.org/features/1057/…
-Richard Brody: newyorker.com/culture/richar…
-Richard Williams: theguardian.com/film/filmblog/…
5/5/54: Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar, w/Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden + +
So out there it goes to 11
More:
-Ebert: rogerebert.com/reviews/johnny…
-Anton Bitel/Little White Lies: lwlies.com/articles/johnn…
-A G Taormina/Film Daze: filmdaze.net/johnny-guitar/
-Richard Brody: newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…
5/5/74: Peak Columbo 'A Friend in Deed'
D Mr. Ben Gazarra; W Peter Fischer, w/Richard Kiley, Michael McGuire, Val Avery
Ultimate expression of Jeff Greenfield take on the series: nyti.ms/1MO1oAW
More
-Lieutenant Columbo: columbophile.com/2018/04/28/epi…
-Our T10: midcenturycinema.org/node/143