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News and Commentary – Bookshelf: Midnight Cowboy Revisited

Posted on May 20, 2021May 21, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

Midnight Cowboy (1969) is one of the landmark achievements of the New Hollywood. As we wrote in an earlier consideration, the movie is “an exemplar of what the seventies film aspired to be: focusing on characters [that] the Old Hollywood wouldn’t touch, raising questions that were previously unasked, and searching for the truths that might…

News and Commentary – Scouting Report: Rifkin’s Festival

Posted on May 5, 2021May 5, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

The crack staff in the procurement department here at Mid Century Cinema managed to secure a copy of Rifkin’s Festival, Woody Allen’s most recent film. And although we tend to shy away from “reviews” at this outfit, since it will likely be some time before North American viewers will have access to this one, an…

News and Commentary – Talking Directors with David Thomson: The Bootleg Series

Posted on April 14, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

For those of you who enjoyed our recent conversation with David Thomson in the Los Angeles Review of Books and found yourself saying, “Gee, if only there was more”—well, there is! We’re very happy with the studio version of our discussion, but there was a ton of footage left on the cutting room floor. What…

News and Commentary – George Segal: The New Hollywood Years

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

George Segal left us last week, and reading through all the tributes that followed we realized that he is scandalously underrepresented in these pages. This oversight is, perhaps, all too common. In drawing up lists of the iconic male actors of the New Hollywood, names like Hackman, Hoffman and Nicholson immediately leap to mind (as…

News and Commentary – Talking with David Thomson about Directors

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

David Thomson – the author of a number of indispensable books, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (a simply essential volume for any movie lover), Have You Seen…?”: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films (highly recommended), and The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies (an extraordinary accomplishment) – has a new book out (as…

News and Commentary – Ingmar Bergman Made a Bad Movie

Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

In 1950 the legendary studio Svensk Filmindustri released This Can’t Happen Here, a would-be Cold War spy thriller directed by Ingmar Bergman. Legend would hold that the film, largely unseen, was marred by a clumsy, even embarrassing anti-communist perspective—in the vein of some of the schlock being produced in America at the same time, as…

Meet the New Mid Century Cinema!

Posted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

What’s new at Mid Century Cinema? Everything! It’s a brand new day for America—and it’s also, quite coincidentally, something of a re-launch for us, as you can see by surfing around our updated and upgraded site: https://midcenturycinema.org/. In addition to a spiffy new and improved design (courtesy of our multi-talented new webmaster), the biggest change in these…

Varda NYFF

News and Commentary – 2020 Roundup: The Best New Home Video Releases

Posted on December 19, 2020January 12, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

This is the time of year we play the “best of” game, here with a top ten of our favorite home video releases of 2020. What’s that you say? All video in 2020 is home video? Well, yes, but we’re limiting ourselves to what was released on DVD and/or Blu Ray. And, as always, recall…

Foreign Correspondent

News and Commentary – Hitchcock in the Forties

Posted on November 27, 2020January 12, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

We’ve all been there—late at night in a crowded bar, people have had a few to many, a boast is bandied about, and before you know it, a brawl erupts over which was Hitchcock’s greatest decade, the thirties or the forties? (A minority faction fights for the fifties, and that guy dressed in black smoking…

News and Commentary – A Conversation with David Thomson

Posted on November 12, 2020January 12, 2021 by MidCenturyCinema

David Thomson is one of the most accomplished and influential writers on cinema over the last half-century. Wedding an impossibly encyclopedic knowledge of film history with a singularly recognizable, assuredly graceful and daringly personal prose style, Thomson was prominent among the grand cohort of critical voices that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s—a golden age,…

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