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John Wayne’s Hondo Comes Out on Blu-ray
John Wayne and Geraldine Page in Hondo. Courtesy Paramount Home Media. Upgraded to Blu-ray, the John Wayne Western Hondo has just been released by Paramount Home Media. Hondo sold over a million units...
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Musicians on the Road: Film vs. Reality
Neil Young. Photo by Declan Quinn, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Through the weird synchronicity that haunts film scheduling, several movies about musicians will be released shortly. There’s...
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Five Women Animators Who Shook Up the Industry
Merida in Brave. ©Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved. Pixar’s new release Brave is being singled out for, among other things, having the studio’s first female lead character. For years writers have...
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Father’s Day Roundup of Six Dads You Want to Avoid
Dillon Freasier, left, and Daniel Day-Lewis as H.W. and Daniel Plainfield Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Photo: Francois Duhamel/Paramount Vantage. In honor of Father’s Day, you could...
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Movie Mash-ups That Beat Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Benjamin Walker as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Photo: Alan Markfield. ©Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. With the release this Friday of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, this week’s most...
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Documenting Sexual Assault in The Invisible War
Kori Cioca, US Coast Guard, from The Invisible War, a Cinedigm/Docurama Films release. The statistics about sexual assault in the military are shocking. The Department of Defense reported 3,158 cases...
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Multiple Sidosis and Disneyland Dream: Two Amateur Masterpieces
Sid Laverents in Multiple Sidosis. The most frustrating aspect of being a film fan is not being able to see the movies you read about. So when a remarkable home movie becomes available, grab the...
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Five Movies That No One Will Ever Be Able to See
Storyboard panel for Nostromo by John Box, from a BFI Southbank exhibit. Megan Gambino’s The Top 10 Books Lost to Time inspired me to think about the movies that we’ll never be able to see. Not movies...
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Where Are the Great Revolutionary War Films?
Mel Gibson as The Patriot. As we celebrate this Independence Day, some might wonder why the Revolutionary War has been shortchanged by filmmakers. Other countries have made an industry out of their...
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The Year Ahead in Archival Films
Anna May Wong in Tod Browning’s Drifting (1923), to be preserved by George Eastman House. The National Film Preservation Foundation recently announced grants to help preserve 60 films over the coming...
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