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2 days ago · The following essay was written in the late summer of 2023, pre-October 7, in the period we in Israel now regard nostalgically. What a luxury it was, in retrospect, to lament the lack of an international film hub in Israel and to recall my abortive efforts to create one.
2 days ago · Hirsch is protective of Preminger’s stature as an artist, defending misfires (like Skidoo), and insisting that the director’s disparaged 1959 version of the opera Porgy and Bess be reevaluated. I spoke with the film historian and Brooklyn College film instructor from his home in Manhattan.
1 day ago · The Production Code, often known as the Hays Code, was implemented by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) to regulate and clean up the film industry. Created in 1930, it was more heavily enforced just a few years later. By the 1950s, the code began to weaken, as Alfred Hitchcock chipped away at it with his films.
1 day ago · With a running time of seventy-seven minutes plus, guitarist Mike Stern 's Echoes and Other Songs is effectively a double album. And like most such expansive works—including classics like Bob Dylan 's Blonde On Blonde (Columbia, 1966) and The Beatles (aka 'The White Album')(Apple, 1968)—it would benefit from consolidation of its best elements (as would a replacement of the amateurish cover ...
3 days ago · Jonathan Preminger is a senior lecturer in employment relations at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, and author of Labor in Israel: Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism (2018).
2 days ago · Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the " King of Pop ", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
2 days ago · He was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and served as Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State under Major. Heseltine entered the Cabinet in 1979 as Secretary of State for the Environment, where he promoted the "Right to Buy" campaign that allowed people to purchase their council houses.
