REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE LAST PICTURE SHOW Tonight’s classic is The Last Picture Show, from 1971, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Set in the early 1950s in Texas, the film was based on Larry McMurtry’s semi-autobiographical 1966 novel. McMurtry and Bogdanovich adapted the story for the screen. The film follows a group ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS This week’s classic is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the 1988 crime caper comedy directed by Frank Oz. In the most charming role of his mid-career, Michael Caine stars as Lawrence Jamieson, a self-described widowed prince living in glamorous exile on the French Riviera, yet still secretly helping ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE THIRD MAN Tonight’s classic is The Third Man, the great 1949 film noir mystery-thriller directed by Carol Reed. Featuring a screenplay by British novelist Graham Greene and a famous zither score by Anton Karas, The Third Man takes us to Vienna in the aftermath of World War ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | INHERIT THE WIND This week’s classic is Inherit the Wind, the 1960 courtroom drama directed by Stanley Kramer. Adapted from the long-running hit Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the famous Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925, dramatizing ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | YENTL This week’s classic is Yentl, the 1983 musical drama directed by Barbra Streisand. Based on the story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yentl had long been a passion project for Streisand, requiring some 15 years of development and false starts before finally reaching the screen. Streisand stars in the ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | EIGHT MEN OUT This week’s classic is Eight Men Out, the 1988 historical baseball drama written and directed by John Sayles. Adapted from Eliot Asinof’s 1963 nonfiction book, Eight Men Out dramatizes the Chicago White Sox scandal of 1919, when eight players were charged with participating in a game-fixing ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | MICHAEL COLLINS This week’s classic is Michael Collins, the 1996 biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan. Chronicling the pivotal years in the centuries-long saga of Ireland’s fight for independence from England, Michael Collins stars Liam Neeson in the title role as the legendary central figure in the fierce ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE PIANIST This week’s classic is The Pianist, the 2002 World War 2 biographical drama directed by Roman Polanski. Adapted by Ronald Harwood from Wladyslaw Szpilman’s autobiographical account of his incredible Holocaust survival story, The Pianist stars Adrien Brody in a career-making and Oscar-winning performance as Szpilman, an acclaimed ...
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