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MidCenturyCinema
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60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context. Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight [NB: Antifascist] Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · Nov 9
Two Great Takes That Go Great Together:
-The New Hollywood Revisited - w/contributions by Molly Haskell, Heather Hendershot, J. Hoberman, Jonathan Kirshner, George Kouvaros, Jon Lewis, Phillip Lopate, Robert Pippin, David Sterritt, David Thomson
-Hollywood's Last Golden Age
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 23h
10/7/71: The French Connection (D Friedkin/DP Roizman)
w/Hackman, Scheider, Rey
More:
@pulpcurry.bsky.social: crimereads.com/50-years-rea...
@kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-french-c...
We favor, but @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social w/must-read dissent: www.slantmagazine.com/film/caveman...
Caveman Valentines: The French Connection, Dirty Harry, & Straw Dogs - Slant Magazine
Straw Dogs is about man’s quest to identify himself as masculine through the self-actualizing power of violence.
www.slantmagazine.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 12h
10/7/55: 1st reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness")
In 1957 Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore arrested for publishing it
More:
@thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2010...
@fredmkaplan.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
How "Howl" changed the world.
Howl may be the unlikeliest movie ever to come out of Sundance with national distribution: a translation of a poem—the substance, spirit, and cultural...
slate.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 17h
That's FRONKensteen
This week on That '70s Movie Podcast, we discuss Young Frankenstein!!
D: Mel Brooks, W: Brooks & Gene Wilder
Spectacular cast incl w/Wilder, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Gene Hackman, Kenneth Mars, and Mr. Peter Boyle:
open.spotify.com/episode/0hbB...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 19h
10/7/38 Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes
Our #2 30s #Hitchcock: midcenturycinema.org/node/93
Munich accords signed the week before. Can't say Hitch didn't warn us
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Philip French: www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo...
Geoffrey O’Brien: www.criterion.com/current/post...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 23h
10/7/71: The French Connection (D Friedkin/DP Roizman)
w/Hackman, Scheider, Rey
More:
@pulpcurry.bsky.social: crimereads.com/50-years-rea...
@kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-french-c...
We favor, but @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social w/must-read dissent: www.slantmagazine.com/film/caveman...
Caveman Valentines: The French Connection, Dirty Harry, & Straw Dogs - Slant Magazine
Straw Dogs is about man’s quest to identify himself as masculine through the self-actualizing power of violence.
www.slantmagazine.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
10/6/60: Spartacus!
D Stanley Kubrick/W Dalton Trumbo
w/Kirk Douglas, Olivier, Simmons, Laughton, Ustinov, Curtis, Lom
Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/140
More:
@rockmarooned.bsky.social: avclub.com/if-kubrick-c...
@stephen-farber.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
10/6/50: The Killer that Stalked New York
#filmnoir is a poor man's Panic in the Streets, OTOH it has great NYC location work, and Evelyn Keyes; DP Joseph Biroc had a very fine career
More:
@tcmtv.bsky.social: www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/...
Crowther, unimpressed: www.nytimes.com/1951/01/05/a...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
Can now report that @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration of
Peter Lorre's The Lost One (the only film he directed) does not disappoint . . . also v much enjoyed, among the extras, @pamhutch.bsky.social Lorre appreciation
Specs: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/wor...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
10/6/04: Arnaud Desplechin's magnificent Kings and Queen
w/Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Maurice Garrel, Catherine Deneuve ++
More:
@manohladargis.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2005/05/13/m...
Nick Pinkerton: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
Rosenbaum: jonathanrosenbaum.net/2005/05/king...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
10/6/60: Spartacus!
D Stanley Kubrick/W Dalton Trumbo
w/Kirk Douglas, Olivier, Simmons, Laughton, Ustinov, Curtis, Lom
Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/140
More:
@rockmarooned.bsky.social: avclub.com/if-kubrick-c...
@stephen-farber.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 1d
Subtitle of the book sort of gives it away . . . :-)
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
BOTD Czech writer, heroic anti-authoritarian & VU fanboy Václav Havel!!
Art can shake the world, which is why tyrants come for it
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@louderthanwar.bsky.social: louderthanwar.com/top-10-rock-...
@mariapopova.bsky.social: www.themarginalian.org/2019/09/22/v...
w/Lou: praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art...
Talk on the Wild Side - Prague Post
Two old friends to chat in public about crossing borders It’s not clear if Vaclav Havel is a bigger fan of Lou Reed or if Reed is a bigger fan of Havel. The two of them will be together for Stage Talk...
praguepost.com
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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 2d
Are you in the mood to read me, @jamellebouie.net , @mangiotto.bsky.social and/or @midcenturycinema.bsky.social on John Frankenheimer's innovatively shot, incredibly unsettling and still wildly timely cult classic Seconds, released on this date in 1966? Thought so!
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
10/5/66: John Frankenheimer's Seconds
w/Rock Hudson, John Randolph
DP James Wong Howe🙏
Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/86
More:
@thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2013...
@mangiotto.bsky.social: filmfreakcentral.net/2013/10/seco...
@jamellebouie.net: www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/o...
Opinion | John Frankenheimer Pointed His Camera Toward the Things We Cannot Escape (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
BOTD #FilmNoir maestro DP John Alton!!
MCCT5 5)Witness to Murder 4)T-Men 3)Walked by Night 2)Raw Deal 1)Big Combo
More:
NYT: www.nytimes.com/1996/06/12/a...
Christopher Weedman/ @sensesofcinema.bsky.social
www.sensesofcinema.com/2013/cteq/re...
American Cinematographer: theasc.com/articles/joh...
John Alton: Master of the Film Noir Mood
With such films as  T-Men, Raw Deal and The Big Combo , the iconic cinematographer’s influential work formed the very foundation of the “dark film” style.
theasc.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
👍 Never. Enough. Howe.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
10/5/45: Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (W Billy/Brackett, DP John Seitz) w/Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
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James Agee (notable given his struggles): thenation.com/article/arch...
@annodracula.bsky.social: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...
@cinephiliabeyond.org: cinephiliabeyond.org/billy-wilder...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
Note my atypical phrasing . . .
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
10/5/62: Dr No
w/Sean Connery, Jack Lord, Ursula Andress
@davekehr.bsky.social: "All of the elements of the formula... in pleasing moderation"
@wendyide.bsky.social: "still one of the best"
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@denofgeek.bsky.social: www.denofgeek.com/movies/dr-no...
French: www.theguardian.com/film/2012/se...
My favourite Bond film: Dr No
In the second of our Favourite Bond series, Philip French falls for the unselfconscious charm of Dr No: a modest thriller with Sean Connery as the tough, stylish hero
www.theguardian.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2d
10/5/66: John Frankenheimer's Seconds
w/Rock Hudson, John Randolph
DP James Wong Howe🙏
Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/86
More:
@thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2013...
@mangiotto.bsky.social: filmfreakcentral.net/2013/10/seco...
@jamellebouie.net: www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/o...
Opinion | John Frankenheimer Pointed His Camera Toward the Things We Cannot Escape (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 3d
Just back from catching The Weekend at Barrington Stage Company:
barringtonstageco.org/the-weekend/
Agree with Steve Barnes @timesunion.com review: www.timesunion.com/theater/arti...
"Acted with fluidity and nuance by a faultless cast"
Huge props esp. to MCC favorite Sasha Diamond
Review: ‘The Weekend’ a charming world premiere at Barrington Stage
The multilayered play “The Weekend” by Ben Diskant closes out Barrington Stage Company’s season with a clever, entertaining love story set in Stockbridge.
www.timesunion.com
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 3d
Susan Sarandon's BD - MCCT5: 5)The Hunger (Scott) 4)Bull Durham (Shelton) 3)Atlantic City (Malle) 2)Twilight (Benton) 1)Dead Man Walking (Robbins)
More:
Here w/Nice Paul Newman story: variety.com/2018/film/ne...
via @interviewmagazine.com.web.brid.gy:
www.interviewmagazine.com/film/susan-s...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 3d
10/4/54: Ingmar Bergman's A Lesson in Love
w/Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Yvonne Lombard, Harriet Andersson
One of the "early funny ones"
More:
@railoftomorrow.bsky.social / @criterioncast.com: criterioncast.com/column/on-th...
Crowther: www.nytimes.com/1960/03/15/a...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 4d
10/3/41: The. Maltese. Falcon.
W/D John Huston
w/Bogie, Astor, Lorre, Greenstreet, Cook Jr.
More:
Danny Huston w/ @showbizsimon.bsky.social: www.forbes.com/sites/simont...
Sragow/ @libraryofamerica.bsky.social:
www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
@mattsinger.bsky.social: screencrush.com/the-maltese-...
‘The Maltese Falcon’: The Little Important Details You Missed
This classic detective movie is now available for streaming.
screencrush.com
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