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		<title>Solid Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only Preston Sturges could begin a movie with a frantic-paced ending to another movie that doesn&#8217;t even exist, and then weave the story so it circles back to explain the improbable beginning. The Palm Beach Story (1942) is Sturges&#8217; funniest film. That’s high praise when you consider that so many of his other directorial efforts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Madcap Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can one film save a failing movie studio? If the film is It Happened One Night (1934), it can. Columbia Pictures needed a hit in order to survive, and it was a gamble for the studio to spend $325,000 on this project, especially since several bus-related movies had recently failed at the box office. Fortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Man&#8217;s Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though the two films are worlds part, Paths of Glory (1957) has a lot in common with Dr. Strangelove (1964). Both were directed by Stanley Kubrick, both are hard-hitting anti-war films, and both attack the folly of those who send others off to die. Yet Paths of Glory is the stronger anti-war film. Where Strangelove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Perverse as a Nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Touch of Evil (1958) became a great film because of a misunderstanding. Charlton Heston had agreed to appear in a police drama for Universal Pictures, but only because he thought Welles was signed to direct it. Welles, in fact, had agreed only to act in the film. In a 1965 interview with the French magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragmentary Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I think of classic short films, I usually recall the silent comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Harold Lloyd. Or I might remember my favorite cartoons from Walt Disney, Dave Fleischer, or Chuck Jones. Of course, there are many other fine short films that span the decades. One of the best shorts from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Astonishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Maltese Falcon (1941) is often cited as the very first film noir. Whether it is or not depends on your definition of a film noir. It has many of the elements we associate with the genre. On the other hand, director John Huston’s tight script and well-paced direction give it a lift that’s missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspired Lunacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a difficult time compiling my Top 20 Screwball Comedies list. The biggest challenge was where to put Bringing Up Baby (1938). In the end, I gave it the number two spot, right behind Duck Soup (1933). Andrew Sarris referred to Bringing Up Baby as the screwiest of the screwball comedies. In an article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intimate Epic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes an extensive digital restoration to re-establish the greatness of a film. That’s certainly the case with Doctor Zhivago (1965). I’ve had a chance to watch the recent (May 4th) Blu-ray release of this popular classic, and it confirms that director David Lean was at the peak of his craft with Zhivago. It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rousing Good Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Captain Blood (1935) is the first of three exceptional swashbuckling films from an unlikely trio: director Michael Curtiz, composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and actor Errol Flynn. While the other two films &#8212; The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and The Sea Hawk (1940) &#8212; are better known, Captain Blood is in many ways the superior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.classicfilmpreview.com/rousing-good-time/</link>
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		<title>Give &#8216;em the Dickens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The novels of Charles Dickens should be ripe for film adaptation. The plucky heroes, sentimental plots, and rich background characters would be instantly recognizable if translated to the screen properly. That&#8217;s the problem. What film could possibly live up to the novels, which often run a thousand pages or more? (Dickens was usually paid according [...]]]></description>
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