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Author Archives: Patrick Friel
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‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week
Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck’s “director of the week.”
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Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young
These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.
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Five opera films that hit the high notes
If the Gene Siskel FIlm Center’s screening of The Magic Flute has you longing for more opera films, here are five that hit the high notes.
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Lana Turner shines as FilmStruck’s Star of the Week
FilmStruck’s “star of the week” Lana Turner shines in these five films.
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The scrappy pre-Code years of William A. Wellman — FilmStruck’s director of the week
Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
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Crashing the boys’ club: independent women directors in the 60s and 70s
Men weren’t the only ones making thoughtful and provocative independent films in the 1960s and ’70s, as this selection demonstrates.
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Jean-Pierre Melville’s brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck
FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.
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Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen
Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
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FilmStruck spotlights the sophisticated cinema of George Cukor
George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the “director of the week” treatment form FilmStruck.
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Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema
Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.
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James Cagney is more than just a tough-guy as FilmStruck’s Star of the Week
James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck’s “Star of the Week” selections.
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Joan Crawford shines in five Hollywood classics
We boil down the iconic actress’s five-decade screen career into five must-see films.
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Queer filmmaker Derek Jarman gets a Pride Month retrospective at FilmStruck
FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
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Five masters of stop-motion animation
If you like the Czech animations by Jiri Trnka showing this month at Film Center, try out these other five greats of nontraditional animation.