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‘The Central Park Five’ Hits DVD: A Required Viewing Playlist of Ken Burns Films
Ken Burns may be the documentary world’s answer to Muhammad Ali: a consummate showman compelled to grapple with iconic heavyweights.
Making the Case for Disney’s Davy Crockett: The Man vs. The Legend
Successful history-based film are always picked apart for accuracy, and cinematic crimes against the truth are invariably found. But what did Disney get right, here?
A Century of Grand Central Terminal, in the City and on the Screen
Grand Central Terminal in New York City is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary this year. It was inevitable that Hollywood would want to use such an extraordinary structure as a movie location. Constantly. From Howard Hawks to Joss Whedon, Word and Film joins the centennial celebration with our favorite films featuring the architectural icon.
The Inventor and the Tycoon: Exclusive Excerpt
Here at Word & Film, we try to balance our focus on “word” and “film.” Today, we’re focusing a little more closely on the “word” part of things, given our recent introduction to a great new book.
Have ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ and ‘Lincoln’ Paved the Way for an Unvarnished Portrait of MLK?
History has never been one of Hollywood’s strongest subjects, but the biopic’s dull-edged reticence may have entered the beginning stages of its own velvet revolution.
5 Best Daniel Day-Lewis Movie Adaptations: Is Lincoln the Latest?
Daniel Day-Lewis appears to be a sucker for a good literary adaptation. It’s perhaps not a surprising proclivity for the son of a writer, but a quick glance at DDL’s IMDB page reads like a Great Books reading list. And now with the role of Abraham Lincoln in Stephen Spielberg’s biopic ‘Lincoln,’ Day-Lewis adds another adaptation to that esteemed library. So in honor of this most bookish of actors, and the upcoming release of ‘Lincoln,’ we bring you our Top Five Daniel Day-Lewis Performances in Film Adaptations.
Radical Chic: Changemakers, Political Upstarts and Whistleblowers Who Belong on the Big Screen
The purchase of the movie rights to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring have inspired us to cull a list of revolutionary icons with stories ripe for adaptation.
Team Jodie: Foster Offers Support to Kristen Stewart During Media Frenzy
Also in the news today: Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX, a sexy Lovecraftian horror spoof, and modeling your diet after your favorite authors!
The Iron Lady and the Queen: On the Relationship of Thatcher and Elizabeth II
‘The Iron Lady,’ starring Meryl Streep, skips over the relationship between the two strongest women in modern British history.
Read This Now: ‘The University Poem,’ Unpublished Vladimir Nabokov Poem From 1926
Also today, the omnipresence of the Wilhelm Scream, Zach Galifianakis considering joining Dunces, and a brand-new game-to-film adaptation.
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