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‘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.”

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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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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.

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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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This Week on Filmstruck: Films about Hard Times

by Patrick Friel February 2, 2018August 18, 2021

Filmstruck presents a series of films dealing with Hard Times.

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Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

by J.R. Jones October 26, 2017August 18, 2021

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.

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Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby is not the first movie to insult F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Ben Sachs May 22, 2013August 19, 2021

Revisiting Frank Borzage’s Three Comrades, the only film on which F. Scott Fitzgerald received screenwriting credit

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