Allan Arkush: The Last Reel
The Last Reel With Allan Arkush: Roll Camera… Action!
Two Hollywood commandments must always be obeyed: “Roll Camera… Action!” which, by coincidence, is the title of this Last Reel. A bit…
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Allan Arkush: The Last Reel
The Last Reel with Allan Arkush — Dinner and a Movie with Ernst
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series preps a scrumptious cinematic meal! Get ready for Dinner and…
Allan Arkush: The Last Reel
The Last Reel with Allan Arkush: Hitchhiking Through Life
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series hits the open road! In 1968, Allan was 20 years…
Allan Arkush: The Last Reel
The Last Reel with Allan Arkush: Dinner and a Movie
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series returns! 60 years before “blockbuster” movie moguls started showing movies…
The Last Reel
The Last Reel: Drama, Drama, DRAMA
Nighttime dramas are the backbone of series TV. Whether they are streamed, binged, cabled or in a box set, they are our…
The Last Reel
The Last Reel: How I Became a Teenage Beatnik
TFH Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series gets literate this week! How I Became A Teenage Beatnik covers the…
The Last Reel
The Last Reel: TV Terroir
The rapid growth of television came out of the TV Terroir of 1950s America. Almost all TV programming has its roots in…
The Last Reel
The Last Reel: Don’t Fence Me In — 1950s Westerns
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series rolls on with a look at the 1950s Western TV…
The Last Reel
The Last Reel: My Imaginary Friend — Beaver, Opie, Mickey Mouse Club, Spin & Marty
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series returns with a vengeance, this time to take stock of…
The Last Reel
The Last Reel: Lois & Ida – A Different Point of View
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series is back with a look at two trailblazing filmmakers: Lois…
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The Last Reel: Questlove Side B
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series returns with Side B of his extended look at Questlove.
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The Last Reel: Questlove Side A
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series continues with its first installment of a TWO-PARTER about the…
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The Last Reel: Femme Fatale
This week’s The Last Reel examines the many forms cinematic femme fatales can take, and why we still love them even though…
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The Last Reel: Transcendent Rock and Roll
This week’s The Last Reel looks back at the otherworldly power of 60s rock and roll bands and how the media—films, videos,…
The Last Reel
The Last Reel: Are You Still Going To The Movies?
“What is this Last Reel?” Every new show needs an Origin Story. This one starts in March of 1974, when Fearless Leader Joe…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Music and Stories – Reckless Youth Pt. 3
If you could travel back in time and see me during the summer of ’68, you would not see any noticeable differences…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Music & Stories: Israel ’66 – Pt. 2
OK, I’ll just say it, this was one of the best summers of my life. What’s happened so far? I had graduated…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Music & Stories: Israel ’66
PERSPECTIVE. Writing and telling these stories has given me perspective and an appreciation of why my story unfolded the way it did.…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Reckless Youth – Part 2
Chapter 7, Part 2 of Music & Stories, “Reckless Youth” Today we’ll delve more deeply into the three musketeers of my reckless…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Reckless Youth
Chapter 7, Part 1 of Music & Stories, “Reckless Youth” In writing all these chapters beginning with Chapter 6, I was surprised…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
My Least Favorite Year
Chapter 6 of “Music & Stories” is “My Least Favorite Year.” From Spring of 1965 to Spring 1966, I was in free…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Music & Stories – Going Electric
Welcome to “Going Electric,” Music & Stories Chapter 5, Part 2. This story is one of the main reasons that I wanted…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Music and Stories – Hydrogen Jukebox
“Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?” The first half of a two-parter: Chapter…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Music & Stories: FLHS – Bridgemen Forever
I was in the Class of 1966 at Fort Lee High School. Our team’s nickname was The Bridgemen because of our proximity…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Tribute to Marty Balin
I couldn’t let the passing of Marty Balin go by without playing all my Jefferson Airplane LPs. They were one of the…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Fathers and Sons
The title of the series for this chapter should be “Movies & Stories” because I share a lot of the movies that…