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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. He was wearing rimless dark glasses, and kept them on even when the audience, through an electrician...

‘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 arrived in 1930. Decades later, the mildly racy romance, with lightly disguised hookers and pimps, w...

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. According to Hermione Lee’s magisterial new biography, the playwright had a note for Gallagher. Co...