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R.I.P., Robert Duvall
It remains one of the great screen entrances in movie history. Near the end of To Kill a Mockingbird, director Robert Mulligan’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s controversial novel (adapted by Horton Foote), Jem (Philip Alford) is taking his sister Scout (Mary Badham) home from a school pageant when they’re attacked by Bob Ewell (James “Buddy” Anderson),…
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Reel 91: Humphrey Bogart Joins the Resistance
Sean and I have wanted to cover CASABLANCA for a long time, but the tough part was finding a good film to pair it with. Finally Sean hit on the idea of pairing Humphrey Bogart with…himself! In today’s episode we look at two films in which Bogart plays the very reluctant hero despite the fact…
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Reel 90: At the Ballet
One of the tough things about films that are focused on a specific, rather niche topic is that the creators have to find a way to turn the audience into feeling as though they’re experts in the field without being such an information dump that they lose track of the story itself. In some cases…
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Reel 89: Backstage Adaptations
Hey there! Long time no see! That’s actually my (Claude) fault. I’d completed post-production on this episode of the show and somehow failed to post it to our host. Fortunately I corrected that a couple of nights ago, so it should already be in your podcast feed. But if you’re catching up here, you have…
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Short Subject: Sean Looks Back at the Sundance Film Festival
As you no doubt know, actor/director/producer Robert Redford died last week at the age of 89. Now, lots and lots of people took the time to look back at his film career, so Sean and Claude took a different tack and reviewed a different aspect of Redford’s legacy: the Sundance Film Festival. Redford wasn’t one…
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In Memoriam – Robert Redford
Early in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman, there’s a blackjack game happening in a bar between a couple of players. The man dealing the cards, a blond-haired man with a mustache, has been winning hands, and one of the players, Macon, accuses the other man…
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