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Shorts, 10 -16

Shorts, 10 -16
"The movies made during the studio era - what the cineastes have dubbed 'the classical Hollywood cinema' - are, along with jazz, America's best creative work from the late 1920s to about 1950." And yet, "ny Hollywood history illuminates the dichotomy between those movies that the system most highly prized and those we love now, raising some doubts about the much-vaunted 'genius of the system.'" The Atlantic Monthly's Benjamin Schwarz reviews Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting and The Star Machine.

"The older Funny Face gets, the more mixed feelings it's likely to arouse, but for three things [fans will] say it gets wrong, there'll be one that redeems all of that, for this is a musical filled with moments still hypnotic and evocative of the 50s in ways few others are," writes John McElwee.

"There's a certain kind of twisted logic to it: a novel about the persistence of love has turned, in the hands of a mediocre director, into a a campy, puffed-up piece of rotten Oscar bait, a movie of such boundless badness that it would take somebody with a Nobel Prize in literature to truly fathom the extent of its wretchedness." Jürgen Fauth has seen Love in the Time of Cholera.



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