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Monday, February 25, 2013

Alexandra Petri's New Oscar Categories (Taken More Seriously Than She Intended) (Part Two)

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(Read part one here .) Best Heartstring-Tugging Child Let's just go back to the first truly great child performance in movies, Jackie...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1953)

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I've seen The War of the Worlds many times since I was a kid, and I think what I like most about it, aside from the sound effects, is t...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1936)

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To me, the key component of screwball comedy is frivolous people behaving as if their actions have no consequences—that is to say, as if the...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

The Early Sound Era: An Introduction

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Back sometime around Easter, I guess it was, when I was first ac- quainting myself with the films of the Silent Era, I happen to catch both ...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Best Director Of 1928-29: Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion Of Joan Of Arc)

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When we celebrate great directors—Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Ford—we are actually often celebrating wildly different qualities. Sometimes it'...
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