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REEL 13 BLOG

Viewer Guide: “West Side Story” and “Miss Stevens”

May 24, 2023 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | WEST WIDE STORY Tonight’s double feature begins with West Side Story, the original 1961 movie adaptation of the classic Broadway musical, co-directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. Adapted from the groundbreaking 1957 Broadway show, with music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, the first ...

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Viewer Guide: “The Birdcage” and “Maude”

May 17, 2023 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | THE BIRDCAGE  This week’s double feature begins with The Birdcage, Mike Nichols’ 1996 adaptation of Jean Poiret’s much-beloved French farce La Cage aux Folles, starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, and Nathan Lane. Williams and Lane play a South Beach nightclub-owning gay couple who agree ...

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Viewer Guide: “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Maude”

May 10, 2023 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | FIDDLER ON THE ROOF This week’s classic is Fiddler on the Roof, the 1971 adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical based on the stories of Sholem Aleichem, adapted for the screen by Joseph Stein with a tuneful score of audience favorites by Jerry Bock and Sheldon ...

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Viewer Guide: “Yours, Mine and Ours” and “Miles Ahead”

April 26, 2023 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | YOURS, MINE AND OURS This week’s double feature begins with Yours, Mine and Ours, the 1968 family comedy directed by Melville Shavelson.  Based on Helen Beardsley’s 1965 autobiographical book Who Gets the Drumstick?, Yours, Mine and Ours stars Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda as the cinematic embodiment ...

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Viewer Guide: “Sweet Smell of Success” and “Sweet Thing”

April 12, 2023 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS This week’s double feature begins with Sweet Smell of Success, the classic 1957 film noir drama directed by Alexander Mackendrick.  Adapted from Ernest Lehman’s novelette with a screenplay by Lehman and Clifford Odets, Sweet Smell of Success stars Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, ...

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Viewer Guide: “Exodus” and “Jasper Jones”

February 23, 2023 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | EXODUS Tonight’s double feature begins with Exodus, the 1960 historical drama on the post-World War II creation of Israel, directed by Otto Preminger.  Adapted by blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo from Leon Uris’ best-selling novel, Exodus takes place in the weeks leading up to the 1947 U.N. Partition ...

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Viewer Guide: “The Kings Speech” and “Inez & Doug & Kira”

February 10, 2023 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | THE KINGS SPEECH This week’s double feature begins with The King’s Speech, the 2010 historical drama directed by Tom Hooper.  The King’s Speech stars Colin Firth in an Oscar-winning performance as King George the VI. But when we first encounter him, the year is 1925 and he ...

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Viewer Guide: “Doctor Zhivago” and “Emperor”

November 9, 2022 | Richard Peña

REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | DOCTOR ZHIVAGO This week’s double feature begins with Doctor Zhivago, the epic 1965 romantic drama of the Russian revolution, directed by David Lean.  Adapted by Robert Bolt from Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning novel, despite its enormous scale Doctor Zhivago is essentially the personal story of a handful ...

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