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Author and TCM host Eddie Muller has some great insights into how the end of WWII changed the way we watched movies.

Sony brings the 1959 Otto Preminger classic "Anatomy of a Murder" to 4K UHD Blu-ray as part of their 6-movie "Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection Volume 2."

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The billionaire Bezos and Amazon Studios promote race and gender quotas Following in the wake of similar actions taken by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Hollywood, as well as the Disney empire, Amazon Studios—the television and film producer and distributor, and subsidiary of Amazon—has adopted an “Inclusion Policy” that is an unabashed race and gender quota system. Such policies, which have an obvious public relations value in the present political context b...

The 127 Year History of LGBTQ+ Representation in Film By Abby Monteil, Stacker News On 6/15/21 at 8:00 PM EDT Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago. But due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, representation onscreen has a long, complicated, and often coded history. While gay characters were frequently used for laughs or not explicitly stated to...

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Dismissing movie musicals as pure escapism, author Desirée J. Garcia argues, "tends to end the discussion. It dismisses the genre without being thoughtful about why musicals continue to be made over and over again.”

Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email Sign up He is approaching 75, but Howard Hawks still fits the old Ben Hecht description of him as ‘a drawling fashion plate, apurr with melodrama.’ On the stage of the Carnegie Theater for the Chicago Film Festival last November, a month before the premiere of his Rio Lobo, he was the image of the consummate professional. ...

‘Her Man’: A Relic of a Bygone Hollywood, Now Restored Now streaming, this mildly racy romance, from 1930, arrived before the censorious Production Code. What really sets the film apart is its incredible tracking shots. Helen Twelvetrees plays a bar girl in Tay Garnett’s “Her Man” (1930).Credit...Museum of Modern Art May 27, 2021 “Her Man,” a snappy bit of hokum inspired by the venerable crime-of-passion ballad “Frankie and Johnny,” was well received when it ...

Tom Stoppard Versus Mike Nichols Gigantic new biographies by Hermione Lee and Mark Harris reveal the possibilities—and the limits—of a life in art. Jack Taylor/Getty Images (Stoppard); Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images (Nichols) In 1983, the director Mike Nichols was rehearsing Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway. The cast included Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Christine Baranski, Peter Gallagher, and Cynthia Nixon, then 17 years old. Stoppard had flown over from London for rehearsal. ...