REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN This week’s classic is The Magnificent Seven, the 1960 action-adventure Western directed by John Sturges. An adaptation of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 art house hit Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven transplants the story’s setting from Japan to a Mexican village not far from the ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | SOME LIKE IT HOT This week’s classic is Some Like it Hot, the 1959 romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder. Set in Prohibition era Chicago, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play Joe and Jerry, a pair of jazz musicians who find themselves caught in the middle of a ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT This week’s classic is The Man in the White Suit, the 1951 film noir satire directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The Man in the White Suit takes its inspiration from the postwar era’s boom in scientific invention, as the vast gains made from wartime ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE GOOD GERMAN This week’s classic is The Good German, the World War II romantic drama from 2006 based on the novel by Joseph Kanon directed by Steven Soderbergh. Both an homage and an update on World War II genre classics like Casablanca and The Third Man, The Good ...
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 ...
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