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The Jazz Singer was the first "talkie"--the very first full-length Hollywood film in which sound, through sound effects, music, and especiall...

Region: All MSRP: $21.99 A melodrama of epic scope but smaller emotional dynamics, Victor Saville’s Green Dolphin Street displays every bit of its $4 million cost (in 1947 dollars!) on the screen but shortchanges its audience in believable human interactions and interpersonal developments in telling its familiar love triangle narrative set in faraway New Zealand. This MGM extravaganza was an enormous hit in its day, but the story hasn’t stood the test of time and serves now as an overlong exercise in patience while admittedly impressing the eye and ear with its multitude of indulge...

Peter Fonda, who died in 2019, would have celebrated his 81st birthday today (February 23). Besides being a member of one of Hollywood’s most lauded family dynasties — his father was Henry Fonda, his older sister is Jane Fonda, and his daughter is Bridget Fonda — Peter Fonda is best remembered for his role in “Easy Rider,” the iconic 1969 film that attempted to encapsulate that decade’s counterculture. While there is nothing ostensibly Jewish about the film, and none of the principals were Jewish, there were a number of small but significant contributions made by Jewish artists, m...

Region: A MSRP: $21.99 The Production: 5/5 The Shop Around The Corner represents some of the very best work by all involved, from Ernst Lubitsch’s spritely direction, to lively leading performances from Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, with equally outstanding supporting turns from the rest of the cast, all executing a script credited to Samson Raphaelson from an earlier play by Miklos Laszlo.  A 1940 production set in Budapest, the film itself works for all times in all locales.  Often imitated but rarely equaled, The Shop Around The Corner is a genuine delight. Alfred Kralik...

Credit WAMC Who doesn’t like a good Christmas movie?  If you look among the classics, you will find stories of romance, sprightly musicals, dramas of human error and redemption, fantastic tales of Santa and his elves, and family movies with happy resolutions. As someone who thinks in terms of vintage films, my list of favorites is rich in American and British titles from the past eighty years.  It’s a Wonderful Life, from 1946, where George Bailey, played by James Stewart, a beloved family man and important member of his community, gives up on life until an angel named Clarence, an unsk...