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Author Archives: Patrick Friel

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Film festivals and special events

by Patrick Friel May 9, 2019August 18, 2021

Extra movie love from now through November

Posted inBlogs

‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

by Patrick Friel September 12, 2018August 18, 2021

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck’s “director of the week.”

Posted inBlogs

Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young

by Patrick Friel September 4, 2018August 18, 2021

These final films by five directors who died too young give a taste of what was left unrealized.

Posted inBlogs

Five opera films that hit the high notes

by Patrick Friel August 29, 2018August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Lana Turner shines as FilmStruck’s Star of the Week

by Patrick Friel August 22, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Patrick Friel August 14, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Patrick Friel August 7, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Patrick Friel July 31, 2018August 18, 2021

FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen

by Patrick Friel July 24, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Patrick Friel July 18, 2018August 18, 2021

George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the “director of the week” treatment form FilmStruck.

Posted inBlogs

Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema

by Patrick Friel July 10, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Patrick Friel July 3, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Patrick Friel June 26, 2018August 18, 2021

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

by Patrick Friel June 20, 2018August 18, 2021

FilmStruck celebrates Pride Month with a retrospective on queer British filmmaker Derek Jarman.

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Five masters of stop-motion animation

by Patrick Friel June 12, 2018August 18, 2021

If you like the Czech animations by Jiri Trnka showing this month at Film Center, try out these other five greats of nontraditional animation.

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