by Alex Dalenberg | Apr 5, 2013 | Movies, News, people, Television
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.April 4, 2013When I was a college student in the late 1970s, spending 3 to 4 nights per week in a darkened movie theater, no film critic made more sense that Roger Ebert. Because I was a movie person, and not a TV person, Sneak Previews with...
by Alex Dalenberg | Apr 3, 2013 | Movies
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D. April 2, 2013 Editor’s Note: Last week we took a look at the earliest films based on L. Frank Baum’s Oz books. This week we continue with a roundup of the films of the Oz Film Manufacturing Company, Baum’s own company. One reason the Oz Film...
by Alex Dalenberg | Mar 28, 2013 | Movies
Still from the 1910 Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Via the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D. March 28, 2013 The MGM movie musical version of The Wizard Oz is so firmly rooted in our popular culture as an incomparable movie classic that...
by Alex Dalenberg | Mar 13, 2013 | Movies, Reviews
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.March 12, 2013Oz was always too big for L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s novel.Baum himself enjoyed years of success thanks to the traveling musical show based on his work, replete with dancing girls and romantic subplots that were...
by Alex Dalenberg | Jan 13, 2013 | Movies, Reviews
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.January 12, 2013Editor’s Note: Every few weeks, we plan to review important or overlooked films from world cinema, specifically ones related to the popular lit genres of science fiction, mystery, suspense, detective, love, romance, western,...
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