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By | September 2001
TK
Well, perhaps you're Noticing a pattern by now. If not, below are some variations on the "theme": Being Human ^ Breaking the Rules ^ Breaking the Surface ^...
For starters, take the typical misconceptions about her influential anti-auteurist essay, "Circles and Squares," published in Film Quarterly in 1963: it's...
It's now popular consensus that as awe-inspiring a talent as Orson Welles was, Kane was still the collaborative creation of himself, Mankiewicz, Gregg...
And as easy as it was to assume how established and fine a writer she was, Pauline Kæl's greatness came in the fact that she's not just possibly the...
CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Ron Wells (filmthreat.com), Mark Caro (Chicago Tribune), Eric Harrison (Houston Chronicle), Eric Lurio (gvny.com), Roger Ebert...
4. WHY BRING THAT UP? (1929) ^ Chances are fairly good that there will be no positive interest in reviving the films of the comedy team of George Moran...
6. FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (1931) ^ The comedy team of Chic Johnson and Ole Olsen (best known for the surreal masterpiece "Hellzapoppin") tried...
8. PEG O' MY HEART (1933) ^ Based on the long-running sentimental Broadway melodrama, "Peg o' My Heart" concerns a young Irish lass who stand to inherit...
12. ROBINSON CRUSOE (1954) ^ Luis Buñuel's first color film was this fairly straightforward adaptation of the Defoe classic. Irish actor Dan...
14. WINDJAMMER (1958) ^ One of the most commercially successful documentaries of the 1950s was this beautifully photographed record of the Christian...
