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New Year, Old Films
Screens Story December 30, 2005
by Louis Black
Description: Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I
"...Mildred Pierce (1945; on DVD: Warner Home Video, $19.98): It wasn't just wire hangers that made Joan Crawford notorious; she won an Oscar for this film about a housewife turned successful entrepreneur who ends up in terrible conflict with her neglected daughter. Dark version of James Cain's dark novel, directed by the doomed to be underrated Michael Curtiz.
My Man Godfrey (1936; on DVD: Criterion, $39.95): Powell again, this time with Carole Lombard in easily one of my all-time favorite films..."
And May All Your Christmases Include Extravagant Song & Dance Numbers
Screens Story December 13, 2002
by Kimberley Jones
"...Waverly can commiserate. He owns the ski lodge in Vermont (central to Michael Curtiz's 1954 White Christmas), where business is suffering 'cause it's sunny and 75 degrees just a few days shy of the big day..."
Video 101
Screens Review July 12, 2002
by Eli Kooris
Description: The seedy tragimusical King Creole counts as a turning point for both its legendary star, Elvis Presley, and its director, Michael Curtiz, the man who made a little film nearly two decades prior called Casablanca.
"...D: Michael Curtiz; with Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger. King Creole marked serious career turns for both its legendary star and its legendary director..."
Paramount Summer Classic Film Series
Screens Story May 31, 2002
"...Casablanca (D: Michael Curtiz, 1942): Fri, 5/31, 7:30pm; Sun, 6/2, 2:30 & 7pm..."
Articulations
Arts Column March 9, 2001
by Robert Faires
Description: Big career moves for a couple of Austin playwrights and big parties thrown by a couple of Austin arts organizations.
"...Zachary Scott wasn't always just a name on a theatre. At one point, he was a Hollywood star, sharing the screen with such cinematic legends as Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Greenstreet, Lana Turner, and Joel McCrea, and working for such celebrated directors as Jean Renoir, Luis Buñuel, and Michael Curtiz..."
Comfortably Butt Numb
Screens Story December 15, 2000
by Kimberley Jones
Description: 11 movies, 24 hours, 230 stinky film fans -- a diary from Harry Knowles' second annual Butt-Numb-a-thon
"...7:22pm Harry introduces a black-and-white doubleheader. First up is Michael Curtiz's The Sea Wolf followed by the little-seen Busby Berkeley musical, Wonder Bar..."
Play It Again, Sam
Screens Story June 3, 1999
"...D: Michael Curtiz; with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson...."
Scanlines
Screens Story April 22, 1999
"...D: Michael Curtiz (1948)..."
Our Gal Joan
Screens Column August 14, 1998
by Margaret Moser
"...Possessed (8/22, 9pm); Humoresque (8/22, 11pm); and Goodbye, My Fancy (8/22/98, 1:15am) also fall in the ho-hum category, but 1949's Flamingo Road (8/22, 3:15am) brings together Joan and Zachary Scott for the second time, along with Mildred Pierce director Michael Curtiz. It's worth watching for Joan's slutty carnival dancer...."
Captain Blood
Film Review
Description: With this, his first swashbuckler, Errol Flynn became a star. He charismatically sails through this drama about a good doctor who is sold into slavery for treating the wounds of...
"...Directed by: Michael Curtiz. Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone..."
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