2019-2020 Theatre Season: Miscellaneous Honors

On April 23, 2020April 27, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Further On (Up the Road), Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

First up, miscellaneous honors from the 2019-2020 (non-Broadway) theatre season.

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2019-2020 Theatre Season: Introduction

On April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Further On (Up the Road), Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

It’s that time of year again:

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A Special Feature

On April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Fellow Criterion Collectors should always check a disc’s special-features section to see if it includes another full-length feature from the director of the main attraction.

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CC

On April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Only in a era of enforced home-marathons would I ever celebrate a virtue of the non-theatrical experience: closed captioning.

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Retrospective Revaluation

On April 10, 2020April 11, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Guillermo del Toro: more of an aesthetician than a cinematician?

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It’s the Working, the Working, Just the Working Life

On April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Who’s America’s foremost cinematic chronicler of the contemporary working-class?

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The Links

On April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Richard Linklater: the modern master of the formal, technical, and/or narrative conceit.

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Hunger for the Power

On March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

STEVEN McQUEEN POWER RANKINGS

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Credit Overture-Credits

On March 25, 2020April 1, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

A nit to briefly pick, inspired by my Corona stroll down old movie lane:

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JB Diaries: The Doctor’s In

On March 23, 2020March 26, 2020 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

The marathon’s name is Bond.

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