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By | January 2001
TK
4. HUMAN WRECKAGE (1923) ^ One of the great Hollywood tragedies of the early 1920s was the death of virile leading man Wallace Reid in a sanitarium...
7. OKLAHOMA! -- THE JAMES DEAN AUDITION (1954) ^ In casting the screen adaptation of the Broadway musical landmark "Oklahoma!", director Fred Zinnemann...
It must be admitted that Spike Lee didn't do much to help his audience understand the film. In fact he was so appalled that it was misunderstood and at the...
Danny Aiello's Sal argues quite elegantly that insurance money does not replace the sentimental value of the pizzeria that he literally built himself. He...
Here is the unedited, real e-mail (not that fake crap you read on some film sites) that Jeff "The Dude" Dowd sent out just before the Sundance 2001 Film...
"Acting is cheap," explains Sayles. "I knew I couldn't afford lots of moving cameras, and cranes and dollies, so I needed to get movement into the film,...
It's hard to believe it's been over twenty years since this film came out. Really hard. "Return of the Secaucus Seven" has no real conflict, except the...
There's an old myth that Sundance skeptics like to repeat, "They only show films that already have distribution!" Out of 114 films playing at Sundance,...
The introduction in the 1990s of low-cost digital cameras and post-production tools to edit features for professional exhibition was heralded as the...
THE CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times), Ron Wells (filmthreat.com), Kenneth Turan (Los Angeles Times), MaryAnn Johnson...
