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Year of the Month

Year of the Month

“Look How Much Fun We’re Having!”: Cliffy on Miracle on 34th Street

January 27, 2025

What isn’t mentioned sometimes says a lot.

Year of the Month

Down to Earth (1947)

January 23, 2025

A romantic comedy turned Greek tragedy.

Disney Byways

“Sleepy Time Donald”

January 17, 2025

Daisy saves Donald's worthless life over and over again.

Year of the Month

The Farmer’s Daughter 1947

January 16, 2025

A farmers daughter goes to the big city to be a nurse and ends up a senator.

Year of the Month

The Face in the Mirror: Black Narcissus

January 14, 2025

Wherever you go, you have to live with yourself.

Year of the Month

Proto/Neo/Noir: Out of the Past

January 9, 2025

Out of the Past features Robert Mitchum, at his all-time best, playing a proto-loser, whose downward trajectory departs from more traditional noirs, such as The Big Sleep, and previews the 70s neo-noirs, such as Chinatown.

Year of the Month

The Comfort of Loneliness

January 9, 2025

A widow buys a haunted house by the sea.

Disney Byways

Walt and HUAC

January 3, 2025

Walt's Daddy Issues may not have been fully responsible for his testimony before HUAC, but goodness they didn't help.

Year of The Month

A Holly Jolly Comedy of Errors

January 2, 2025

A little kindness never goes amiss, especially at the holidays.

Year of the Month

Reconstructing Husbands

December 5, 2024

After a preview screening of his newest film Husbands in 1969, John Cassavetes should have been elated: everyone loved the film. But Cassavetes felt that the film was too entertaining in its depiction of the three main characters. So Cassavetes dismantled the entire film in the editing room to create the film he released in 1970. But now we can see it, or at least have a better idea of this first version than we used to. Through my archival research, I located a shooting script of the first third of the film that I argue allows us access to at least part of the 1969 edit of the film.