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The Artemis Women in Action Film Festival
In the beginning there was Helen Gibson. Gibson was a rodeo star in the early days of the 20th century who moved…
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FLOATING IN THE OCEAN OF HELENA LEE
In writer-director Jim Akin’s The Ocean of Helena Lee, the first thing you may notice about 12-year-old Helena Lee (and the young…
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Godard, 3D, Noir City and Goodbye to Stan Freberg
Every time I step into a warehouse discount store I can see about 11 different reasons to not get excited about the…
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SHORT ENDS FROM TCM FEST 2015
Another year, my sixth at the TCM Classic Film Festival, is in the books, and I’m exhausted! Fourteen movies over four days…
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STARING DOWN THE 2015 TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL
Starting today, it’s down the rabbit hole once again to revel in Hollywood’s past glories (and international cinema’s too) at the 2015…
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Wild Tales
Anthology films, by their very nature, suggest a mixed bag of experience, perspective and, sometimes, even thematic concern, and their history is,…
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The Boys From Brazil
In 1978 I was a college student majoring in film studies, as well as a mid-lapse Catholic, so the ripples of flabbergasted…
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Chainsaw Confidential & An Oscar Postscript
Another movie-mad installment from Dennis Cozzalio, this week tackling Gunnar Hansen’s memoir on the making of that out-of-control horror classic The Texas…
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The Oscars
The first Oscar show I ever saw was the 42nd annual gala, honoring the movies of 1969. Of course I hadn’t seen…
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Introducing… Fear of the Velvet Curtain
We’re excited to announce a new feature here at TFH, a weekly column from one of our favorite writers on film, Dennis…