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Sergio Leone Meets Robert De Niro Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald: Once Upon a Time in America

May 21, 2012

I was delighted to hear of the premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival of a 269-minute restored version of Sergio Leone’s final masterwork, Once Upon a Time in America (1984). I[…]

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Notes on The Exile (Max Ophuls, 1947)

June 30, 2011

Producer as Auteur – The Exile is a swashbuckler, written by, produced by, and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. It was the first American film to be completed by the German-Jewish director,[…]

Directors

Happy Birthday, Robert Siodmak (And Sorry for all the Misconceptions)

August 7, 2010

Director Robert Siodmak was born on August 8, 1900, in Dresden, Germany. If alive today, he would be 110. In 1994, in an article entitled Beyond the Golden[…]

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Sergio Leone Meets Robert De Niro Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald: Once Upon a Time in America

Notes on The Exile (Max Ophuls, 1947)

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Happy Birthday, Robert Siodmak (And Sorry for all the Misconceptions)

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