REEL 13 CLASSIC | FIVE EASY PIECES Tonight’s classic is Five Easy Pieces, the seminal 1970 drama directed by Bob Rafelson. In one of his career-defining early performances, Jack Nicholson stars as Bobby Dupea, a restless malcontent seemingly trapped in a dead-end job on a California oil field. Bobby’s leisure hours are ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | TENDER MERCIES Tonight’s classic is Tender Mercies, the 1983 drama from a screenplay by Horton Foote, and directed by Bruce Beresford. In his first Oscar-winning performance—after three prior nominations—Robert Duvall stars as Mac Sledge, a man who seems to be in the final stage of losing his battle ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | FEARLESS This week’s classic is Fearless, a 1993 drama adapted by Rafael Yglesias from his own novel and directed by Peter Weir. Jeff Bridges stars as Max Klein, a San Francisco-based architect who experiences a horrific event that most of us try to never even think about: surviving ...
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 ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | ALL THE KING'S MEN This week’s classic is All the King’s Men, the 1949 political film noir, directed by Robert Rossen. Adapted from Robert Penn Warren’s 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King’s Men was inspired by the true-life story of Huey Long, whose controversial political career reached ...
Voting for the PBS Short Film Festival voting is almost over! You can still vote for Reel 13’s entry One Way or your favorite film by going to the official website. Two awards will be given out as part of the PBS Short Film Festival. Votes, Facebook and YouTube likes and ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE BIG CHILL This week’s classic is The Big Chill, a 1983 comedy drama directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Making his directorial debut two years earlier with the neo-noir sensation Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan scored a major follow-up hit with The Big Chill, a seminal Baby Boomer tale of seven University of ...
Editor’s Note: This article was previously published on PBS’s Behind the Lens on July 2020. Director Jonathan Munoz reveals that the Twilight Zone and his dad’s old office inspired his short film “One Way,” currently competing in PBS Short Film Festival 2020. There is something darkly ironic about a travel agent who ...
Hello Reel 13 fans! The PBS Short Film Festival starts next week on July 13th and ends on the 24th. The 9th year of the festival, the PBS Short Film Festival will feature 25 short-form independent films from multiple public media partners and PBS member stations. The festival will be ...
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