Tag: Gone With the Wind
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Film Score Pioneer Max Steiner Is Ripe for Rediscovery, with the Help of a New Biography
Composer Max Steiner, whose scores for “King Kong,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca” placed him in the movie-music pantheon, isn’t much discussed today. He seems to belong to that old-school, pre-synthesizer world of orchestral scoring from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.But as author Steven C. Smith points out in his engrossing new biography of…
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Trump Mocks ‘Parasite’ Best Picture Win: ‘What the Hell Was That All About?’
President Donald Trump took aim at “Parasite’s” historic Oscar wins at a Colorado rally on Thursday.“How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” he asked, prompting jeers from the crowd. “Did you see it?”“The winner is… a movie from South Korea! What the hell was that all about?” he went on. “We got enough problems…
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Trump Reportedly Screened ‘Joker’ at the White House and Liked It
At long last, President Donald Trump finally saw “Joker.” According to Yahoo! News, a senior White House official confirmed to the outlet that he screened Todd Phillips’ revisionist DC origin story “for guests including ‘family, friends, and some staff.’” That same White House official confirmed that Trump indeed liked the movie.Mr. Trump is a noted…
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‘The Best of Enemies’ Is Latest Proof Hollywood Needs a Better Approach to Stories About the Civil Rights Era
For better or worse, race-reconciliation movies are a longstanding Hollywood tradition. The formula is often the same: Stories are set in the Civil Rights era — from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s — and center on black-white relationships, with a white protagonist who is transformed by a relationship with a black person. There are…
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‘Avatar’ Producer: James Cameron’s Sequels Will Showcase More Diversity on Pandora
James Cameron’s producing partner, Jon Landau, implied at CinemaCon that the four upcoming “Avatar” epics will include creatures of more races and colors than the 2009 original.“On the first ‘Avatar’ film, we met one clan of Na’vi, so a very isolated part of Pandora,” he explained during “Meeting the Expectations of Today’s Savvy Moviegoer,” a…
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Bill O’Hare, Studio Publicity and Advertising Executive, Dies at 88
William “Bill” O’Hare, a longtime movie marketing executive for companies including MGM, Paramount and Columbia, died of lung cancer April 2 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills, Calif.Born in Lake Placid, N.Y., O’Hare started out as an assistant manager at Century Theatres in Brooklyn and worked his way up to VP…
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From The Naked City to Double Indemnity – why the 1940s is my favourite film decade
War changed everything, destroying whole film industries and heralding a new era of realism, grit and shoots on location•Read the rest of My favourite film decadeThe 1940s sundered the 20th century, dispatching an entire global framework and any number of abiding social orders to the ashcan of history. It offered both pinnacle and nadir of…
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Oscars: Breaking Down the Top Five Categories
When it comes to which categories engender the most excitement and buzz, acting, directing, writing, cinematography and song and are the stuff of which Oscar dreams — and anxieties — are made of. Following are analyses on each category:ActingActress: In the lead and supporting actress categories, the lack of ethnic and cultural diversity in the…