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The Next Reel • Season 13 • Series: 1952 Academy Awards Best Cinematography • Black-and-White Nominees • A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

October 26, 2023

We wrap up our series on the nominees at the 1952 Academy Awards for Best Black-and-White Cinematography with a conversation about Elia Kazan’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire.” It’s a strong finish for this series and gives us a lot to talk about. Tune in!

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The Next Reel • Season 13 • Series: 1952 Academy Awards Best Cinematography • Black-and-White Nominees • Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

October 19, 2023

We continue our 1952 Academy Awards Best Cinematography • Black-and-White Nominees series with a conversation about Alfred Hitchcock’s fantastic “Strangers on a Train.” The cinematography is top notch. The story’s perfectly Hitchcock. It’s a great film to chat about!

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The Next Reel • Season 13 • Series: 1952 Academy Awards Best Cinematography • Black-and-White Nominees • A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun

October 12, 2023

We continue our 1952 Academy Awards • Best Cinematography, Black-and-White nominees series with a conversation about the winner that year – George Stevens’ dark melodrama “A Place in the Sun”. Neither of us had seen it and we both were completely surprised by how much we loved it. Check it out then tune in!

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The Next Reel • Season 13 • Series: 1952 Academy Award Best Cinematography Black-and-White Nominees • The Frogmen

The Frogmen

October 5, 2023

We continue our series looking at the 1952 Academy Award nominees for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Today, we talk about a film that gave the Navy’s Underwater Demolitions Team – subsequently the SEALs – a big boost in applicants. It’s Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 film “The Frogmen” starring Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews. Plus, it’s one of the first major Hollywood films to incorporate underwater cinematography to this extent! Tune in.

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The Next Reel • Season 13 • Series: 1952 Academy Award Best Cinematography Black-and-White Nominees • Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

September 28, 2023

We kick off our next series, jumping to the 1952 Academy Award nominees for Best Cinematography • Black-and-White. First up, we talk about László Benedek’s 1951 adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” For a play that’s been adapted so many times, how does this – the first film adaptation – hold up? Tune in!

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Fritz Lang's 1953 crime film noir The Big Sleep

The Big Heat • Member Bonus

May 31, 2021

How about some hot coffee in the face? No? Well, Gloria Grahame sure gives it a shot here in this brutal crime noir film directed by Fritz Lang in 1953, starring Glenn Ford as a ruthless cop hellbent on stopping the local crime syndicate, no matter who dies in his way. This is our May 2021 Member Bonus Episode, voted on by you – our members. It’s a dip back into our Fritz Lang series from 2016, and a solid film to finally review.

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North by Northwest

June 18, 2020

It’s the second in our Cary Grant series this week, and this time we’re heading straight up the Presidents’ noses as we follow Hitch and crew to Mt. Rushmore and beyond in the 1959 classic ‘North by Northwest’.

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Rififi

February 26, 2020

How did Jules Dassin use this film to help break the blacklist? Are the criminal protagonists here easy to like? How do they so effectively amp up the tension in the robbery? Tune in to this week’s show to get these answers and more!

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Stromboli

June 13, 2019

Was this film worth the rupture in Ingrid Bergman’s marriage? What do we think of Italian neorealism? And why do people live on this island still? Tune in to this week’s show to get these answers and more!

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A Star Is Born (1954)

March 28, 2019

How well do Judy Garland and James Mason do in the roles? Was Garland stable by this point in her career? How does this film hold up to the original? Listen in this week!

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