by Alex Dalenberg | Feb 6, 2015 | Movies, Reviews
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.February 5, 2015I have to admit it: I was wrong about Woody Allen. For a long time I believed the conventional wisdom about Woody, which was that he made funny movies in the 60’s, had his artistic peak with Annie Hall and...
by Alex Dalenberg | Jan 24, 2015 | Movies, Reviews
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.January 24, 2015The third musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein, following “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel,” this is the only one written directly for the big screen. The greatest team in Broadway musical history, even today, they wrote a...
by Alex Dalenberg | Jan 11, 2015 | Movies, Reviews
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.January 11, 2015This was once the sort of low-brow comedy that didn’t get much play in my house while I was growing up. My parents had little tolerance for Jerry Lewis, The Three Stooges, the original late ‘70s cast of Saturday Night...
by Alex Dalenberg | Dec 28, 2014 | Movies, Reviews
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.December 28, 2014Columbia Pictures presents Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brand in “The Big Heat” with Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan, based upon the Saturday Evening Post serial by William P. McGivern. Screenplay...
by Alex Dalenberg | Dec 18, 2014 | Movies, Reviews
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.December 18, 2014We screen a lot of films at the Dalenberg Library of Antique Popular Literature, and in keeping with the “antique” in our name, a lot of the films are old. Modern cinema may be ok—some of the greatest actors and...
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