On Monday, prolific film scholar David Bordwell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison delivered a lecture about experimentation in storytelling techniques in 1940s Hollywood films. The talk, titled ...
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The new Netflix miniseries “Hollywood” is set in the 1940s. It tells the story of Hollywood’s Golden Age through the eyes of aspiring actors, a director, and screenwriter. It exposes the dark side of ...
“Five Came Back” is a powerful documentary about five Hollywood filmmakers who, despite being at the top of their game in the early 1940s, risked their lives in order to go overseas and create ...
Although Hollywood is almost as fond of culture as of aquatics, it has seldom worked up any real enthusiasm for the legitimate drama. Few shows have ever played profitably in the town, and the ...
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting March 10th, 2009 - Buy Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing DVD ...
Did an exotic actress from Vienna, considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood in the 1940s, really invent wireless? Not exactly, but the non-sensationalized facts of the matter are no ...
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Movies began on the East Coast. Fort Lee, to be exact. Then, around 1910 — in the conventional telling — they moved to Hollywood, and never looked back. But Teaneck film historian Richard Koszarski ...