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HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

February 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE: SEX! CRIME! HORROR! with Elliot Lavine, Tourguide

If you had to sum up what it’s like to talk with Elliot Lavine, cinema programmer extraordinaire, scholar of film history and engaging raconteur, it might be the moment when an emergency vehicle went by the room where I was interviewing him on February 17, 2106. While ruminating on studio policies about film restoration, he… Read More »

Tagged With: African-American, Al Capone, Barbara Stanwyck, Cecil B. DeMille, censorship, cinema history, cultural upheaval, DOWNSTAIRS, economic upheaval, Edward G. Robinson, film history, FREAKS, gambling addiction, GONE WITH THE WIND, Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, Irving Pichel, Joan Blondell, John Gilbert, Lee Garmes, licentiousness, Louis B. Meyer, miscegenation, Paul Muni, pre-code Hollywood, race relations, SAFE IN HELL, SCARFACE, Sessue Hayakawa, sex addiction, Tallulah Bankhead, THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN, THE CHEAT, THREE ON A MATCH, Todd Browning, TWO SECONDS, WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD, WIlliam Wellman

THE AVIATOR

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE AVIATOR

Crash and burn is a painfully apt metaphor for the life of Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) as told in Martin Scorsese’s THE AVIATOR. We even see two such events in the course of its almost three hours of running time. Unlike the tidier myth of Icarus, though, Hughes’ story is more than just genius meeting… Read More »

Tagged With: aviation, based on a true story, Cate Blanchett Oscar, Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Pan Am, TWA

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