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		<title>A Great and Simple Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t heard of the director Frank Lloyd, you’re not alone. Even though he directed, produced, and/or appeared as an actor in more than 180 films from 1912 through 1955, he isn’t well known. He is best remembered for his masterful direction of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Lloyd was the ideal choice to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Fighting in the War Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to write about Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) without resorting to superlatives. It&#8217;s the best comedy of the 1960s. It&#8217;s the best black comedy ever. It has the longest title of any Oscar-nominated film. Just as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living on the Edge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is one of Howard Hawks&#8217; best and most personal films. Hawks was a master of taking on the conventions of a genre and adding deeper meaning to its clichéd elements. At the same time, he was able to reinvigorate the entertainment aspects of the genre, so the end result is [...]]]></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>
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		<title>Ways of Escape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We speak about the great directors, yet it&#8217;s always a group effort. It takes a strong director to steer the many divergent elements in the same direction. When the process works, all the elements fit together so the result is equal to more than the sum of the parts. The Third Man (1949) is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sublime Satire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a letter to film historian Herman G. Weinberg, director Ernst Lubitsch cited Ninotchka (1939) as one of his three best films. Lubitsch wrote, &#8220;As to satire, I believe I probably was never sharper than in Ninotchka, and I feel that I succeeded in the very difficult task of blending a political satire with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparkle and Shine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seventy-four years after its release, how do we sort out the merits of a movie like Camille (1936)? Strictly in terms of Garbo’s performance, it may be her finest sound film. Yet with all her films (with the exception of Lubitsch’s atypical Ninotchka), there was always something that kept the whole from being better than [...]]]></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 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 equal in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honor in Defeat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Ford always seemed to pull for the little guy. And if he wasn&#8217;t pulling for the little guy, he was pulling for individuals who take setbacks with a stoic sense of honor and common decency, as well as a sense of humor and self-deprecation. The heroism and unselfishness of Dr. Mudd despite being wrongly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Most Unusual Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger Thornhill should have known he was in trouble when he walked through the lobby, and the hotel&#8217;s music system played &#8220;It&#8217;s a Most Unusual Day.&#8221; Of rather, we should have known. He may not know it, but we do &#8212; he lives inside a Hitchcock film, so we can expect a healthy dose of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Same Only Different</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Awful Truth (1937) is one of the least appreciated of the top screwball comedies, in part because director Leo McCarey isn&#8217;t as well known as directors Frank Capra, George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, or even Howard Hawks. His best comedies include Let&#8217;s Go Native (1930), Duck Soup (1933), Six of a Kind (1934), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Modern Odyssey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When asked by Jean Mitry in 1955 to list his favorite films among the ones he had directed, John Ford included The Long Voyage Home (1940) among a handful of titles. At the time of its release, John Mosher wrote in The New Yorker that this was &#8220;one of the most magnificent films in film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benign Manipulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Correspondent (1940) was Hitchcock&#8217;s second Hollywood film, though it was Hitchcock&#8217;s first Hollywood film in the sense that it was the first true Hitchcock film made in Hollywood. Rebecca (1940) was as much David O. Selznick’s movie as it was Hitchcock’s, which may explain why Rebecca was the only Hitchcock film to win an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ham Sandwich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lubitsch&#8217;s To Be or Not to Be (1942) was criticized at the time of its release for being too morbid and for taking a serious subject too lightly. Like Chaplin&#8217;s The Great Dictator (1940), it attacks Hitler and the Nazi movement with a broad brush. We would call this a black comedy, which is a [...]]]></description>
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