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Classic Film Review: A Catfight for the (Middle) Ages — “The Lion in Winter” (1968)
It was a gilded age for high-minded British cinema, of larger than life actors taking on epics as heroes and antiheroes — a life of “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Becket,” “Cromwell,” a dash or two of Shakespeare, and “A Man for … Continue reading
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Classic Film Review: A Little Romance, a Touch of Class, and Class Warfare — “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)
It begins with a screwball tease — a couple, wordlessly breaking up, climaxing with the husband maniacally grabbing the wife by the forehead and shoving her back through the door and onto the floor. But even though the wife is … Continue reading
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Tagged cary-grant, comedy, cukor, film, jimmy-stewart, katharine-hepburn, movies
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