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News and Commentary – 2024 Roundup: The Best New Home Video Releases

Posted on December 16, 2024December 16, 2024 by MidCenturyCinema

The best thing about the approach of Festivus for the hardworking staff at Mid Century Cinema is not the airing of grievances (although, sidebar, don’t ask), but quite the opposite—it is also the time to share our annual Top Ten home video releases. As always, this is not so much a list of our favorite…

News and Commentary: Megalopolis, Man

Posted on November 16, 2024November 18, 2024 by MidCenturyCinema

The crack staff here at Mid Century Cinema has been somewhat distracted lately, what with the relentless rhythm of the academic semester, and, ya know, The End of Everything. We could not even get ourselves together to catch Francis Ford Coppola’s career capping Megalopolis in the theater. But as we revere Coppola – one of…

News and Commentary: Kojak!!

Posted on August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 by MidCenturyCinema

For reasons too complex to easily unpack, the crack staff here at Mid Century Cinema have been catching up with re-runs of Kojak, the mid-70s TV policier. It has been an eye opening experience. There were easily a dozen decent cop shows in the late sixties and early seventies—but in retrospect, it is clear that…

News and Commentary: Sutherland in the Seventies

Posted on July 8, 2024July 8, 2024 by MidCenturyCinema

Donald Sutherland, one of the most consistent, sure-handed, and prolific actors of the last sixty years, left us a few weeks ago. One of the signature performers of the New Hollywood era, we were remiss in not previously punching his ticket for admission to the Mid Century Cinema pantheon. In the decade of the 1970s…

News and Commentary: Claude Sautet 100!

Posted on April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 by MidCenturyCinema

It is Claude Sautet’s centennial year. A cause for celebration at Mid Century Cinema, but for many it might be an occasion to say, “who is Claude Sautet”? Which would be understandable. Sautet, who died a quarter of a century ago, left us only fourteen films (as writer-director) over a forty year career. And none…

News and Commentary: Minority Report – That New Book about Francis Ford Coppola

Posted on March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 by MidCenturyCinema

The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson arrives with enormous promise. Coppola’s story has been told before, but those stories are irresistible, and surely there is room for still more—especially from an experienced, eminently well qualified author who enjoyed virtually unprecedented access to all of the major players, and to…

News and Commentary: Never. Enough. Tavernier.

Posted on February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 by MidCenturyCinema

The hardworking staff at Mid Century Cinema has been engaged with a number of off-site projects recently, including an appreciation of Wim Wenders for the New Left Review, a very exiting feature revisiting Three Days of the Condor for the spring issue of Cineaste, and a long-form take on Bertrand Tavernier’s Guerre sans Nom (The…

News and Commentary – 2023 Roundup: The Best New Home Video Releases

Posted on December 24, 2023December 24, 2023 by MidCenturyCinema

As the calendar year comes to a close, it’s time to share our annual Top Ten home video releases. As always, this is not so much a list of our favorite movies newly available in 2023, but rather reflects the “best of home video 2023”—and as such great emphasis is placed on packages that offer valuable…

News and Commentary: John le Carré on the Big Screen

Posted on November 4, 2023November 4, 2023 by MidCenturyCinema

We have been spending, vicariously, a good bit of time with John le Carré in recent months, and also with David Cornwell (1931 – 2020), the man behind that nom de plume. The latter is the subject of The Pigeon Tunnel, a new film by the accomplished documentarian Errol Morris—the title drawn from le Carré’s…

News and Commentary – Robert De Niro: An Appreciation at Eighty

Posted on August 14, 2023August 14, 2023 by MidCenturyCinema

Robert De Niro turns eighty this week—a milestone that apparently we find more aback-taking than he does; this past April, in his eightieth year, the legendary actor celebrated the birth of his seventh child. Nevertheless, as a first ballot Hall-of-Famer, prominent in the pantheon of the New Hollywood, and one of the great actors of…

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