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‘Unabashed, unfettered romanticism’ runs wild in Frank Borzage’s golden-age masterpiece of a runaway wife and the crazy Frenchman who pursues her. Long lost to awful, ragged 16mm prints, the newly restored gem will dazzle fans of delirious love stories, where the right people get together despite distance, time, and the interference of jealous husbands, misunderstandings, accusations of murder and natural disasters. All the above figure in this mini-epic, yet the movie never seems like a genre mash-up. Jean Arthur skips the squeaky line deliveries, Charles Boyer drops the gloom act, Colin Clive is more frightening than in his horror movies and Leo Carillo steals the show with one of the most endearing characters of the 1930s.

History is Made at Night

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1937 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 13, 2021 / 39.95

Starring: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff,...

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If shelf space were unlimited, you’d find the walls of many a cinephile’s living room absolutely stacked floor to ceiling with Criterion Collection Blu-rays. Allow us to indulge your itch to add to your personal film collection with this list of some of the biggest and best upcoming Criterion Collection releases, including a massive box set of Wong Kar Wai’s films, plus new Blu-ray releases of some favorites.

“World of Wong Kar Wai”

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First things first: There’s plenty to admire in this collector’s set of the director’s films, which includes new 4K digital restorations of “Chungking Express,...

While 2020 forced many of us to rely on streaming more than ever before, due to cinemas shutting down, physical media remains both relevant, and the best way to acquire and watch films. This is to say that the monthly release announcements by The Criterion Collection are always worth being excited about, and April 2021 is no different.

Read More: ‘Memories Of Murder’: Bong Joon Ho’s Crime Masterpiece Remains Impactful With Its Murky Morality

Hold on to your butts, because one of the best Korean films of all time is coming to the Criterion Collection next month.

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Guilt, gloom, weird nightmares of death and persecution — and romance? The wondrous Gail Russell brings a spark of life into Frank Borzage’s weird expressionist masterpiece produced at the seldom-artistic Republic Studio. The bitter, despairing Dane Clark has just committed what a jury will likely call first degree murder, but the night can offer atonement and forgiveness, if he’ll just listen to Russell’s good advice.

Moonrise

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1948 / B&W / 1:37 Academy / 90 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 8, 2018 / 39.95

Starring: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram, Henry Morgan, Lloyd Bridges, Selena Royle.

Cinematography: John L. Russell

Film Editor: Harry Keller

Original Music: William Lava

From the book by Theodore Strauss

Written and Produced by Charles Haas

Directed by Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage’s 1948 Moonrise is a critic’s delight, especially among aficionados that like to point out the artistic margins of traditional Hollywood filmmaking.

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

78/52 (Alexandre Philippe)

There’s been documentaries that analyze entire cinematic movements, directors, actors, writers, specific films, and more aspects of filmmaking, but it’s rare to see a feature film devoted to a single scene. With 78/52, if the clunky title addition didn’t tell you already, it explores the infamous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho with exacting precision and depth. Featuring interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Guillermo del Toro,...

Paul Verhoeven looks back on Showgirls, twenty years on. Also in today's roundup: Alex Ross Perry on Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, plus essays on Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, Abel Ferrara’s King of New York, Frank Borzage's History is Made at Night, James Dean, nitrate (and the past and future of cinema) and Ti West; interviews with Bruce Beresford, Christine Vachon and Ramin Bahrani; video of Woody Allen on Goodfellas and Martin Scorsese on five films that have influenced him over the years. And more. » - David Hudson...

Paul Verhoeven looks back on Showgirls, twenty years on. Also in today's roundup: Alex Ross Perry on Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, plus essays on Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, Abel Ferrara’s King of New York, Frank Borzage's History is Made at Night, James Dean, nitrate (and the past and future of cinema) and Ti West; interviews with Bruce Beresford, Christine Vachon and Ramin Bahrani; video of Woody Allen on Goodfellas and Martin Scorsese on five films that have influenced him over the years. And more. » - David Hudson...

Jean Arthur films on TCM include three Frank Capra classics Five Jean Arthur films will be shown this evening, Monday, January 5, 2015, on Turner Classic Movies, including three directed by Frank Capra, the man who helped to turn Arthur into a major Hollywood star. They are the following: Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; George Stevens' The More the Merrier; and Frank Borzage's History Is Made at Night. One the most effective performers of the studio era, Jean Arthur -- whose film career began inauspiciously in 1923 -- was Columbia Pictures' biggest female star from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s, when Rita Hayworth came to prominence and, coincidentally, Arthur's Columbia contract expired. Today, she's best known for her trio of films directed by Frank Capra, Columbia's top director of the 1930s. Jean Arthur-Frank Capra...

My geek overdrive continues to overwhelm me. But I’m not the only one.

Less than a week away from this year’s San Diego ComicCon (which opens its doors this Thursday, July 24th, and closes them on Sunday, July 27th) Entertainment Weekly joins the national geek fest that is summertime with a bang-up double-size issue featuring a cover shot of Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Evans as Captain America with Ultron looming behind them. The issue is a stuffed-to-the-gills San Diego Comic Con preview…

And I read every single page. Including the adverts.

Now I know how those fans at the 1976 Sdcc felt when Charles Lippincott (then head of Lucasfilm’s marketing, advertising and publicity department) showed some of the first production slides of Star Wars, and (writer) Roy Thomas and (artist) Howard Chaykin previewed their Marvel Comics adaptation of the film, because the cover story,...

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It’s time to head to Boston! Immediately we’re treated to visuals of the ensemble meeting in Grand Central and then heading up to Beantown while “Another Op’nin, Another Show” (from “Kiss Me, Kate”) is sung by Tom (and a little Sam. Interesting pairing there). I’m glad we have a classic Broadway song — there’s too few of those in this show. As the gang sets up there’s an ill-timed black out in the theater.

We open this week, accompanied by Tom (with a brief initial assist from Sam) singing “Another Op'nin, Another Show” from Kiss Me Kate over scenes of the Bombshell cast and crew packing for out of town tryouts in Boston. Notably Ivy packs a photo of her awful mother. Rebecca takes a limo and the chorines meet up in Grand Central Station.

Christian Borle really nails the song and the arrangement incorporates phrases from “Let Me Be Your Star”. The number closes with Karen standing wide-eyed on the stage as tech crew scurry under Derek's direction. With the final notes fading a missed cue results in the theater being plunged into darkness. From out of the dark, we hear Derek: “Oh bloody hell!”

Meanwhile, Julia's at home lying next to Frank in bed, smiling.

Back in Boston Rebecca stands nervously on the bare stage. Derek enters and spots her there; she leaves hurriedly.

"It may not be true that 'the three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic,' as one historian has put it, but it's not much of an exaggeration," writes Daniel Mendelsohn in this week's New Yorker. "Since the early morning of April 15, 1912, when the great liner went to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with it five grand pianos, eight thousand dinner forks, an automobile, a fifty-line telephone switchboard, twenty-nine boilers, a jeweled copy of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, and more than fifteen hundred lives, the writing hasn't stopped."

What follows is an epic and irresistibly readable survey of 100 years' worth of Titanic lore. The disaster immediately inspired a "glut" of poems, "more than a hundred songs," countless histories, novels and plays and, of course, innumerable films, both narrative and documentary:

A scant month after the sinking, a one-reel movie...

Los Angeles, California (X17online) - NBC's Smash is planning to release a soundtrack for their hit Broadway drama on May 1. The soundtrack includes 13 tracks from the hit series, including original music written for the show by Grammy winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The album also features music from Katharine McPhee, Nick Jonas and more. Check out a complete track listing below for the album below: 1. "Touch Me" featuring Katharine McPhee 2. "Stand" featuring Katharine McPhee and Leslie Odom 3. "Who You Are" featuring Megan Hilty 4. "Crazy Dreams" featuring Megan Hilty 5. "Beautiful" featuring Katharine McPhee 6. "Haven't Met You Yet" featuring Nick Jonas 7. "Shake It Out" featuring Katharine McPhee 8. "Brighter Than the Sun" featuring Katharine McPhee 9. "Let Me Be Your Star" featuring Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty 10. "20th Century Fox Mambo" featuring Katharine McPhee 11. "Mr & Mrs Smith" featuring Megan Hilty and Will Chase 12. "Let's Be Bad" featuring Megan Hilty 13. "History Is Made At Night...

Despite the success of "Glee," the musical on the small screen is still untested, but NBC is giving it a shot with their more adult-oriented series "Smash." The show follows the production of a musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, and of course, all kinds of drama happens on stage and off. Granted, we've never watched the show, but not only does "Smash" have its fans, it has been picked up for a second season.

Part of NBC's game plan to continue the buzz for "Smash" is to release some of the songs from the show on iTunes right away, but if you'd rather just pick up the whole thing at once, you'll soon be able to. The official soundtrack will arrive next month, featuring 13 songs. Covers of Carrie Underwood's "Crazy Dreams," Michael Buble's "Haven't Met You Yet" (featuring Nick Jonas of all people) and the original...

Some of its storylines remain questionable (see affair, Julia), but few viewers out there question the quality of the Smash music on a weekly basis. Katharine McPhee and company can seriously bring it.

And they'll be bringing it all on one CD May 1, when the season one soundtrack hit stores and iTunes.

Check out a complete track listing below for the album below:

"Touch Me" featuring Katharine McPhee "Stand" featuring Katharine McPhee and Leslie Odom "Who You Are" featuring Megan Hilty "Crazy Dreams" featuring Megan Hilty "Beautiful" featuring Katharine McPhee "Haven't Met You Yet" featuring Nick Jonas "Shake It Out" featuring Katharine McPhee "Brighter Than the Sun" featuring Katharine McPhee "Let Me Be Your Star" featuring Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty "20th Century Fox Mambo" featuring Katharine McPhee "Mr & Mrs Smith" featuring Megan Hilty and Will Chase "Let's Be Bad" featuring Megan Hilty "History Is Made At Night" featuring Megan Hilty...

The wait is almost over for fans eager to listen to the music of "Marilyn" on their iPods. NBC is releasing its first "Smash" soundtrack, "The Music of Smash," on May 1.

According to Amazon.com, the 13-track album will include both covers and originals from the series, including the Ryan Tedder-produced song "Touch Me" from the March 26 episode, "The Coup."

Check out the full track list for the soundtrack:

1. "Touch Me"     

2. "Stand"     

3. "Who You Are"     

4. "Crazy"     

5. "Beautiful"     

6. "Haven't Met You Yet"     

7. "Shake It Out"     

8. "Brighter Than the Sun"     

9. "Let Me Be Your Star"     

10. "The 20th Century Fox Mambo"     

11. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"     

12. "Let's Be Bad"     

13. "History Is Made at Night"

Will you buy "The Music of Smash"?...

"Smash" fans eagerly awaiting to put some of Katharine McPhee's most popular covers onto their MP3 players just have to wait a bit longer. NBC will release the first "Smash" soundtrack, "The Music Of Smash," on May 1.

According to the Amazon.com product page, "The Music of Smash" will include original hits such as "Let Me Be Your Star" and "Let's Be Bad," along with previously unreleased cast covers of "Shake It Out" and "Brighter Than The Sun."

The Ryan Tedder-produced "Touch Me" kicks off the soundtrack. Check out the full track list below.

"Touch Me""Stand""Who You Are""Crazy""Beautiful""Haven't Met You Yet""Shake It Out""Brighter Than the Sun""Let Me Be Your Star""The 20th Century Fox Mambo""Mr. & Mrs. Smith""Let's Be Bad""History Is Made at Night"...

"Smash" fans eagerly awaiting to put some of Katharine McPhee's most popular covers onto their MP3 players just have to wait a bit longer. NBC will release the first "Smash" soundtrack, "The Music Of Smash," on May 1.

According to the Amazon.com product page, "The Music of Smash" will include original hits such as "Let Me Be Your Star" and "Let's Be Bad," along with previously unreleased cast covers of "Shake It Out" and "Brighter Than The Sun."

The Ryan Tedder-produced "Touch Me" kicks off the soundtrack. Check out the full track list below.

"Touch Me" "Stand" "Who You Are" "Crazy" "Beautiful" "Haven't Met You Yet" "Shake It Out" "Brighter Than the Sun" "Let Me Be Your Star" "The 20th Century Fox Mambo" "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" "Let's Be Bad" "History Is Made at Night"...

I was recently alerted to the fact that Frank Borzage's 1937 masterpiece Big City is finally available on DVD in the Us, thanks to Warner Archive's Luis Rainer Collection. As such, I've pulled from Notebook's Archive of the Unpublished an unfinished piece I worked on some time ago on this terrific film, gleaned, as you will see from the images, from Turner Classic Movies in France (ignore the subtitles—the images were chosen for the images, not the words on them). It's not particularly finished or even unified and it's more description than anything else, but I hope it inspires you to see this film.

A fan of director Frank Borzage has to be a bit of a patient crate-digger, finding his films as they pop up in rare retrospectives (7th Heaven, not-so-rare on the Old Film Circuit, but the rest are sporadic) or unexpectedly on Turner Classic Movies, which...

Fans of NBC's Smash were no doubt relieved when NBC announced the show has been renewed for a second season. It didn’t look so promising with the first few episodes, as Smash struggled to assemble a disparate group of ambitious professional entertainers whose only shared desire was to be in the spotlight, to be loved.

Everybody in the series wants a piece of Marilyn (the show-within-a-show that is being prepared for a Broadway debut), and most will do anything to get it.

Over the course of the first seven episodes, it’s been fitfully entertaining storytelling. But, like the initial “bad sex” between Tom and his blind date (arranged by his mother!), it's getting better.

Ivy, a talented but overlooked ensemble member at a successful show down the block with an overbearing Broadway star mother, wants in. Derek, a randy director/choreographer who sleeps with his stars and doesn't...

Smash destroyed a childhood memory of mine with last night's episode. Well to be fair it's not really Smash's fault. See, with Bernadette Peters guest starring this week I'd been fondly recalling seeing her perform “Music Music Music” on The Muppet Show. But when I searched online for the clip, I couldn't find it. That's because she didn't sing “Music Music Music” on The Muppet Show. Teresa Brewer did. So for thirty years I've been fondly recalling something that never existed. It's jarring.

Anyway, we're one day before the workshop and we open on The Most Repulsive Pairing In Show Business, Michael and Julia, holding hands on a public sidewalk. The way you do when you're carrying on a secret affair. Thankfully Eileen and Derek approach before I get too nauseated.

Upstairs in the rehearsal space it's sweltering. Ellis informs the cabal that the super told him the boiler's acting up.

Before I say a single word about this week’s episode of Smash, can we pause to discuss Bernadette Peters’ performance of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”? Holy mother of Broadway, I can honestly say I grinned ear-to-somewhere-three-inches-past-my-other-ear for the duration of the brassiest, most charismatic number in Smash‘s seven-episode history.

And just as impressive was Peters’ turn as Leigh Conroy, Broadway legend, tsunami of charisma, and not exactly World’s Greatest Mom to our fair protagonist Ivy Lynn. (Come on, you know Leigh did her vocal warmups before she jumped in that cab to the workshop space.)

When...

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Finally, the darn workshop is here. But first Julia and Michael Swift secretly hold hands on the street, rudely interrupted by Derek and Eileen who are also on their way to rehearsal. It’s the day before the workshop and Derek is crabby. He must be nervous. Oh, and there’s a problem with the heat in the rehearsal building. It’s like 100 degrees in there. Michael and Julia get frisky in the hallway and are caught by a none to happy Tom,...

Since NBCs musical drama series Smash is kicking into high gear as the Marilyn Monroe musical that forms the core of the shows story approaches its first workshop presentation on Monday nights episode - with the highly awaited appearance of Broadway legend Bernadette Peters coming next week, as well playing the mother of the Marilyn musical star, Ivy Lynn Megan Hilty - now is the ideal opportunity to, well, Fade in on a girl With a hunger for fame And a face and a name to remember, to quote Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittmans crown jewel in a diadem of a songstack for the show-within-the-show, Bombshell. The show-within-the-show is better that most scores on Broadway these days and that is a credit to the Tony-winning tunesmiths and their ability to make musical theatre that is polished and professional, yet totally fun, bawdy and accessible, as well. Look no further than...

Much like Ivy Lynn halucinating in her bedroom on this week’s episode of Smash, I’m wondering if some of this week’s storylines might’ve been figments of my imagination. Mind you, I’m not “hypersensitive to drugs” — how Christian Borle delivered that groaner with a straight face is beyond comprehension — but I need confirmation that the following plot developments didn’t just materialize out of the ether, like Katharine McPhee in wonky Marilyn Monroe drag:

* Julia and Michael consummating their rekindled affair | So dude threatens to blow up at Julia during rehearsals and expose their kiss, calls...

It's a little over a week until the workshop for Marilyn: The Musical and Ivy's at home readying herself for the day's rehearsal. She sings a couplet from “Let Me Be Your Star” and her voice goes out on the high note. A sleepy Derek asks if she's Ok and she fake smiles through it.

Eileen's in her office with a potential investor, an unhappy rabbit by the name of Ralph (although to me he looks more like an Edgar). She's asking for $7 million to cover the workshop and an out-of-town tryout. He's skeptical but agrees to consider attending the workshop.

At rehearsal, Karen and the chorines are re-shuffling the pages of their scripts and Karen is completely lost. Julia's going just as nutty rearranging the show, scrambling to place the “Johnny Hyde scene” and where to put Natasha (Lytess, Columbia's head drama coach) when Derek flips out on her,...

As we near the halfway point for Season One, it is evident now more than ever that Smash has established a pretty clear-cut style, structure and overall dramatic direction - each week we can depend upon most if not all of the following in one form or another a fabulous Marilyn Monroe-themed musical production number a soul-baring rehearsal scene or three a pop cover or two both a classic and a current one, if possible some Derek Jack Davenport and Ivy Megan Hilty diva drama and hand-wringing cattiness, backstabbing and shade thrown in the direction of, and almost always directly affecting, sweet-as-pie Karen Katharine McPhee, an all-too sympathetic character who just cant seem to catch a break bar mitzvah tween audiences excluded a peek into the lives of the Marilyn musical songwriters, Julia Debra Messing and Tom Christian Borle, currently developing the show-within-the-show before our very eyes and ears...

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Ivy’s singing happily as she gets ready for the day, until her voice catches! And oh look, there’s Derek in her bed.

Timeline alert: The workshop is a week from Sunday! And everyone is having issues. Julia, Derek and Tom are having issues – Derek is bent out of shape because there’s no discernible story, linear or otherwise, and Julia stresses that it’s a first workshop and she’s been having...

When Smash was first announced, I was excited to see a new and original idea. Network television has no shortage of cop, lawyer, or doctor shows, so Smash was something fresh and intriguing. NBC's heavy promotion of the show created a nice buzz as well.

Smash promised to give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a Broadway show with both original and cover songs each week. Would it be a success like The West Wing's look at the White House? Or lackluster like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's backstage look at a SNL-like show?

Even though tonight's "Chemistry" was the sixth episode, it is too soon to tell. The show is the strongest when it focuses on the musical and the work relationships. It hits some rough patches when it gets into the personal lives of the characters, especially Julia's life.

The evolution of Marilyn:...

Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, The More the Merrier The delightful actress Jean Arthur is Turner Classic Movies' star of the evening tonight. Beginning at 5 p.m. Pt, TCM will show five Jean Arthur movies: The Talk of the Town (1942), History Is Made at Night (1937), The Public Menace (1935), The More the Merrier (1943), and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Directed by George Stevens, The Talk of the Town received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and two for its story and screenplay. (Back in those days there were three Best Writing categories.) Arthur is outstanding as a schoolteacher — this is perhaps my favorite among her performances — torn between a law professor (an equally outstanding Ronald Colman) and an escaped convict (Cary Grant). As a plus, former Warner Bros. contract player Glenda Farrell is excellent in a supporting role. The Talk of the Town is not to be missed. Though much less...

First, some good news: This week’s episode of Smash provided plenty more ammo in the delicious war between #TeamKaren and #TeamIvy. And now for some more good news: The show refuses to give simple answers to the question of which character deserves to be the heroine of our ongoing melodrama, and (to a lesser degree) which of these flawed, ambitious, enormously talented women is more deserving of the lead role in Marilyn the Musical. (Side note: At the end of the day, it’s possible to root for both ladies — if you’re willing to unite against the common enemy known as Ellis!

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The cost of art is both a literal and figurative title. How much does art cost, as in a price tag, and how much does art cost, as in – what would you give up, change, demand to be a part of art?

Let’s tackle the literal sense first. Eileen has an original Degas that she’s trying to sell in order to raise $200,000 for her workshop. (She only has access to $8,000 because the rest is in escrow).But...

Didn’t I just write one of these a week ago? Of course I did, because this is your destination for the best coverage of all the new titles Criterion puts up on their Hulu Plus page, and this week is no different. There’s fewer films (unless they decide to throw up another 30 when I least expect it) but in this case, less is more. And the lucky number is 13 this time. With worries of what the future for Hulu is, there are supposed talks that Google is definitely interested, which is interesting. Especially with their roll out of Google+ these past few days. If you like what you see, please sign up via this link. It does wonders for this article. But enough about that, you want to know about the movies. So let’s not make the good people wait.

The one that made my head explode was Godzilla,...