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Classic films in focus: 'Jane Eyre' (1943)

Director Robert Stevenson’s big screen adaptation of “Jane Eyre” followed in the wake of the blockbuster success of &ldquo...
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"Hopelessly Dated": Old-time radio listening, 30 October

Mercury Theater On the Air: The War of the Worlds (CBS, 1938)And to think there are those who think this adaptation is going to be dull on the air,...
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Blu-ray review of ‘Citizen Kane: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition’

Citizen Kaneis considered by many to be the greatest film ever made. This is both the film’s greatest selling point and, for many, its...
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'Citizen Kane' available on iTunes

As part of its 70th anniversary celebration of Orson Welles’ landmark film, “Citizen Kane” (1941), Warner Brothers is bringing...
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4 Essays and One Chat about Orson Welles' F For Fake

Here’s the idea behind “A Canadian, an American, a Lawyer, and an Elitist”: Rhett’s favorite movie is Meatballs 4, Shawn...
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Much more than Citizen Kane, Orson Welles is TCM's featured star August 8

  • TCM
  • August 9, 2011
Born in 1915, Orson Welles embarked on a career in theatre in Dublin with an appearance in the Jew Suss in 1931 at The Gate, a famed theatre...
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It was FUN melodramatically exaggerated camp: Old-time radio listening, 12 June

The Shadow: Death from the Deep (Mutual, 1938)The best-remembered old-time radio crime drama didn't really hit stride, or begin ducking the...
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Tempestuous: Old-Time Radio Listening, June 5

Lux Radio Theater: Jane Eyre (CBS, 1944)"Charlotte Bronte wrote this novel over a century ago. Yet, in a world at war, this tempestuous story...
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"F for Fake"

  • F for Fake
  • May 26, 2011
F for Fake, Orson Welles’ 1975 film, constantly asks the question, “it’s pretty, but is it art?” The experimental &ldquo...
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"Wherever possible the most notable scenes in their entirety": Old-time radio listening, 19 Septembe

Columbia Workshop: Hamlet (Part One) (CBS,1936) Having hit stride early, the landmark dramatic anthology gets a Shakespearean adrenaline shot from...
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