Continuing my report on the Carole Lombard series at NYC’s Film Forum, I now address Sinners in the Sun (1932), a hilariously extravagant title for a picture about a model and a mechanic, poor but in love, who take a melodramatic and improbable (though not unenjoyable) journey, only to learn that money doesn’t bring happiness.  Be [...]

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Last night I went to a double feature at NYC’s Film Forum. The occasion was the 12-day tribute to Carole Lombard in honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth. The two pictures that drew me there were rarities I’ve always wanted to see, both from the period before Lombard was Lombard, before she established an [...]

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The recent arrival of Billy Elliot The Musical on Broadway (I have tickets in early December) prompted me to take another look at the beloved 2000 film on which the show is based.  I’m happy to report that the movie is just as wonderful as I remembered.  Set in northeast England in 1984, in a [...]

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Though we have about six weeks of holiday releases to come, filled with what is known as Oscar bait, I’d have to say that, as of right now, my favorite American film of the year is Pixar’s computer-animated Wall-E (released this week on DVD).  Wall-E is set on a no longer habitable Earth, 700 years [...]

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This week’s DVD release of the Budd Boetticher Box Set is especially good news to me. Among the box’s five films is Comanche Station (1960), one of the five westerns featured in my book Screen Savers. That means that there are now thirty films available on DVD of the forty films discussed at length in [...]

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