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 ...
With We Are One: A Global Film Festival now underway, here are our three picks for what you should stream. Late Marriage http://www.weareoneglobalfestival.com/events/late-marriage-2020 Streaming courtesy of the Jerusalem Film Festival, Late Marriage is streaming until June 6. From director Dover Kosashvili, the film follows a thirty-year-old bachelor whose conservative Jewish parents are trying ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY This week’s classic is The Buddy Holly Story, the 1978 biopic directed by Steve Rash. A pioneering film in the enduringly popular genre of the rock & roll biography, The Buddy Holly Story stars Gary Busey in an Oscar-nominated performance as the seminal singer-songwriter ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE PRODUCERS This week’s classic is The Producers, the original 1967 satirical comedy marking the directorial debut of Mel Brooks, which later became the inspiration for Brooks’ blockbuster hit musical in 2001. Released well within memory of World War II, The Producers shocked and divided movie audiences of ...
Sister South Asian Film Festivals DFW SAFF and NYC SAFF are about to embark on a new DIGITAL chapter of their six-year combined journey. They proudly co-present ECSA, Escapist Cinema of South Asia, a seven-week, online series (May 16th to June 27th) that will live stream a new film(s) every Saturday night ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | FUNNY GIRL This week’s classic is Funny Girl, the 1968 movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif, directed by William Wyler. Dramatizing the early career of beloved Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice, the film version of Funny Girl was the grand finale ...
Tribeca Enterprises and Youtube have recently announced a new free streaming film festival “We Are One,” to run for 10 days starting May 29. Along with films curated by the Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Venice Film ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | AWAKENINGS This week’s classic is Awakenings, the 1990 adaptation of neurologist Oliver Sacks’ memoir of the same name, directed by Penny Marshall. Set in 1969, Awakenings offers a fictionalized account of Oliver Sacks’ early career, and his breakthrough treatment of patients still suffering from the devastating effects of ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE CHINA SYNDROME This week’s classic is The China Syndrome, the 1979 dramatic thriller directed by James Bridges. America’s simmering post-war anxiety over the safety of nuclear power reached a boiling point with this unexpectedly prescient “what if” scenario. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Jane Fonda stars in one of ...
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