Articles tagged "barbara stanwyck"

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Forbidden Hollywood’s William Wellman: The Forgotten Man

by Chris Robé

[21.May.09] :. The 1934 Production Code’s puritanical stance towards sexuality is often highlighted by contemporary historians, but it also held extremely reactionary political mandates that forbade movie representations of conflicts between capital and labor.

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Film DVD Review

The Furies: Criterion Collection

by Matt Mazur

[24.Jul.08] :. Mann scatters fragments of Shakespeare’s King Lear into the mix along with the familial clinches of Eugene O’Neill’s dour compositions

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Film DVD Review

Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Mar.08] :. Hooray for 'Hollywood': Second volume of '30s 'Forbidden' films is a fascinating collection.

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 1: Pure Classicism

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jun.07] :. In its infancy, the cinematic artform went through some formidable technological and stylistic changes. The ten DVDs discussed here highlight the very definition of the Golden Age of filmmaking.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

TV DVD Review

The Big Valley: Season One

by Leigh H. Edwards

[26.Jul.06] :. Tensions caused by the growth of urbanization and industrialization and the dying out of the frontier, the excesses of the robber barons and the risk they pose to democracy, and the angst of Civil War veterans trying to find their place in the world, again, set the stage for this virtuous, wealthy, 19th century family.

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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

by Matthew Callan

[23.Feb.04] :. Edward Dmytryk makes fine use of the French Quarter's Byzantine ironwork, its shadowy foyers, and the Escher-like twists of its courtyards and balconies.

 

The Lady Eve / Sullivan’s Travels (1941/2001) - PopMatters Film Review )

by David Sanjek

One gets the feeling that Preston Sturges shot his creative wad early on, then exhausted by fighting the suits' efforts to censor his work.