Articles tagged "john huston"

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Oct.08] :. Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

 
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Jake

by Bill Gibron

[22.Feb.08] :. Chinatown remains a stalwart of '70s cinema. The uninspired follow-up 16 years later reminds one that, sometimes, a masterpiece needs to simply be left alone.

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Under the Volcano

by Matt Mazur

[7.Dec.07] :. Under the Volcano is Golden Age craftsmanship at its peak with a decidedly modern edge that shows, again, that the vintage director’s eye is one that often improves with age.

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

Part 3: The Stellar ‘70s

by PopMatters Staff

[20.Jun.07] :. When it comes to post-modern moviemaking, everyone stereotypes the Me Decade as the genre's defining moment. In this case -- as illustrated by the 10 films that represent it -- the categorization is more than accurate.

PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own

 
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Essential Classics - Dramas (1947)

by Erik Hinton

[11.May.07] :. This collection is an archive which excludes the archivist as target audience.

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Annie (1982)

by Justin Ravitz

[1.Mar.04] :. She may have been a multimedia moppet, skipping from comic strip to radio to Broadway, but Little Orphan Annie is no movie star.

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John Huston: Interviews by Robert Emmet Long

by John G. Nettles

Huston is revealed as a seamless whole, tough guy and gentleman of culture, one of the last of the Renaissance Men.