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Articles with keyword "Film"

A still from "The Soul of Youth." 1920

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Film as Argument

By Bruce Bennett

The early disputatious days of American movies.

Still from "The Red Shoes"

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Saving Grace

By Marilyn Ferdinand

How the Film Foundation restored The Red Shoes and is preserving cinematic history.

Boxcar Bertha

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Knowing the Scorsese

By Bruce Bennett

A Selective Filmography

Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta

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"With Love and Resolution": An Appreciation

By Glenn Kenny

The Art of Martin Scorsese

The Grapes of Wrath's Tom Joad can't find work at a camp.

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Filming the American Novel

By Meredith Hindley

From The Great Gatsby to Sister Carrie, writers tell stories of social climbers and fortune hunters.

Asa Carter

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Self-made Man

By Kevin Mahnken

How a strident segregationist transformed into the beloved author of Little Tree.

James Agee portrait, standing in a window.

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Let Us Now Praise James Agee

By Danny Heitman

The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.

Movie star Lauren Bacall

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Hebrew National

By Joseph Epstein

Not just Torah and gefilte fish: A new film shows the complexity of life as a Jewish American.

child in theater

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Deaf Meets Wonderstruck

By Katherine Eastland

An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.

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Sunday Filmmakers

By Bruce Bennett

Shooting on weekends, a team of young, Jewish filmmaker-wannabes in 1920s Berlin made a classic film—and launched several major Hollywood careers.