REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE This week’s double feature begins with Rebel Without a Cause, the classic 1955 coming-of-age drama directed by Nicholas Ray. Released a month after James Dean’s untimely death in a car accident at the age of 24, Rebel Without a Cause is surely the ...
Filmmaker and co-producer Julia Kots speaks with WNET Up Next host Elisa Lichtenbaum about the making of Inez & Doug & Kira, her independent film about a bipolar woman who commits suicide and the impact of her death on her sister and her sister’s fiancé. The film, written, directed, edited, ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | GASLIGHT This week’s double feature begins with Gaslight, the 1944 psychological thriller directed by George Cukor. Gaslight stars Ingrid Bergman in her first Oscar-winning performance as Paula Alquist, a troubled young woman struggling to recover from the shock of discovering the body of her aunt, a famous ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN This week’s double feature begins with All the President’s Men, the 1976 political thriller directed by Alan J. Pakula. With June 2022 having marked the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, and now in the midst of the January 6th hearings, it’s perhaps ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT This week it’s Christmas in July on Reel 13, with the 1945 romantic comedy Christmas in Connecticut, directed by Peter Godfrey. Barbara Stanwyck stars as Elizabeth Lane, a food writer whose column in “Smart Housekeeping” magazine has her legion of readers salivating for her ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | A STAR IS BORN This week’s double feature begins with A Star is Born, the 1954 musical drama directed by George Cukor. Produced by Judy Garland’s third husband Sid Luft, A Star is Born was conceived as Garland’s high profile comeback vehicle after her four year absence ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | OCEAN'S 11 This week’s double feature begins with Oceans 11, the original comic crime caper directed by Lewis Milestone. By the time of Oceans 11’s release in 1960, Frank Sinatra was very much the embodiment of his nickname, “The Chairman of the Board,” the true kingpin of ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | AKEELAH AND THE BEE This week’s double feature begins with Akeelah and the Bee, a 2006 coming of age drama written and directed by Doug Atchison. In a breakout performance, Keke Palmer stars as Akeelah Anderson, an 11-year-old living in South Central Los Angeles, whose poor school ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR This week’s double feature begins with The Ladykillers, the classic 1955 black comedy from London’s Ealing Studios, directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The “lady” in peril of the film’s title is Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce, a kindly but obstinate widow portrayed in a delightful performance ...
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