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Stream On: Going Greene in Haiti with ‘The Comedians’
Haiti is unfortunately no stranger to turmoil. Novelist Graham Greene wrote about it in a 1966 novel and a 1967 screenplay.
Mar 22
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Stream On: Downton Abbey in the battle of the British costume dramas, part two
In 2010, ‘Downton Abbey,’ another dramatic series about Edwardian British manners, threatened the BBC revival of 1970’s success ‘Upstairs, Downstairs.’
Mar 15
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Stream On: Upstairs v. Downton—the battle of the British costume dramas, part one
In 2010 the BBC revival of 1970’s success ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ went head-to-head with the ITV upstart ‘Downton Abbey.’
Mar 8
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Stream On: When is a Marx Bros. film not a Marx Bros. film?
Jumping butterballs! ‘Room Service’ wasn’t written for the Marx Brothers; it was adapted for them from a successful Broadway play.
Mar 1
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February 2024
Stream On: the rise and fall of Truman Capote
Capote referred to ‘Answered Prayers’ as his “posthumous novel,” explaining, “either I'm going to kill it, or it's going to kill me.”
Feb 23
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Stream On: ‘Attack!’: Not everyone is a hero
A cynical and grim account of war. “Not every gun is pointed at the enemy.”
Feb 16
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Stream On: The return of Sam Spade—‘Monsieur Spade’
“[Sam Spade] is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been.” (Dashiell Hammett)
Feb 9
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Stream On: ‘Doc Martin’ (the show, not the character) is charming and delightful
“Doc Martin” is prickly and opinionated, says what’s on his mind with no filter, and doesn’t understand—or care—why people don’t like him.
Feb 2
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January 2024
Stream On: ‘Do What You Like’—‘Beware of Mr. Baker’
Ex-boxer Jay Bulger braved personal danger to film the 2012 documentary about Cream’s pugnacious drummer, Ginger Baker.
Jan 26
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Stream On: Léon, ‘The Professional,’ another—ahem—‘cleaner’
“A perfect assassin. An innocent girl. They have nothing left to lose except each other.”
Jan 19
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Stream On: Going Greene—‘This Gun for Hire’
Raven the hitman, in the Graham Greene story ‘This Gun for Hire,’ was the part that earned Alan Ladd a place at the table in Hollywood.
Jan 12
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Stream On: the fall and rise of Tony Soprano
‘The Sopranos’ was widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential television drama series of all time. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is its…
Jan 5
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