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The last surviving director of Hollywood’s “Golden Age” died in February and we’re gonna talk about it, by way of Stanley Donen’s films Indiscreet and Two For The Road.
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ALBERT FINNEY (1936-2019)
An actor who made a mark in six consecutive decades of film, Albert Finney is the first 2019 death to make it to Deathwatch. We look at his films Under The Volcano and Tom Jones while discussing the impact of his…
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Blu-ray Review: In LA VERITÉ, Brigitte Bardot and Henri-Georges Clouzot Take Aim At Institutional Misogyny
Henri-Georges Clouzot claimed that his 1960 film, La Verité, was created with the intent of exploring how it is impossible to judge a person, once full knowledge of that person’s story was in place. Viewed in 2019, where it has recently…
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PENNY MARSHALL (1943-2018)
The first female director to break the $100M-grossing club, Penny Marshall got her start in TV before transitioning into a weirdly brief, highly beloved career as a feature film director. For today’s episode we look at her debut feature, Jumpin’…
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GEORGE H.W. BUSH (1924-2018)
The 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush presided over one of the greatest health emergencies in American history and was directly or indirectly responsible for well north of a million people. Here at Deathwatch, that’s worth a…
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Blu-ray Review: Euzhan Palcy’s A DRY WHITE SEASON Is Stunningly Timely
One of Criterion’s final 2018 releases is also one of the label’s best.
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THE LAST JEDI Was A Star Wars Fan’s Star Wars Film… Until It Wasn’t
“[The Last Jedi] was the first time I’d seen a Star Wars film that had clearly been made by someone who loved the series as much as, and had thought about it as obsessively as, me.”
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The Best Films Of 2018: My Ballot
The OFCS is collecting its nominations today. Here’s how I voted:
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Blu-ray Review: Peer Into Cinema’s Great Missing Link With Criterion’s THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
It’s a season of Welles with THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND on Netflix and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS joining the Criterion Collection.
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RAYMOND CHOW (1927-2018)
With his Golden Harvest production company, Raymond Chow turned the kung fu movie into an international phenomenon and gave us such megastars as Tsui Hark, Jackie Chan, and (of course) Bruce Lee. Today the Deathwatch team looks at ENTER THE…
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