Looming Issues: Bennie Klain on Weaving Worlds
Unpicking the traditions of Navajo rugs
Steve Uhler
30 entries
Screens, March 16, 2007
State Fair
Recognizing the stars but also the spirits
Screens, March 9, 2007
The Martin & Lewis Collection: Volume One
"We don't need writers"
Screens, Feb. 9, 2007
St. Elsewhere: Season One
ER? Grey's Anatomy? Scrubs? Hapless interns all.
Screens, Jan. 19, 2007
SNL: The Complete First Season
'SNL,' 'Robin Hood,' 'Symbiopsychotaxiplasm,' and more
Screens, Dec. 15, 2006
M*A*S*H: Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection
Screens, Dec. 15, 2006
O. Henry's Full House
His popular (and populist) short stories pretty much invited adaptations, a calculated risk that 20th Century Fox decided to gamble on in 1952
Screens, Dec. 1, 2006
The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats
These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them
Screens, Sept. 29, 2006
The Mr. Moto Collection
Screens, Aug. 25, 2006
Warner Bros. Pictures Tough Guys Collection
The end of an era on six discs
Screens, July 21, 2006
The Loved One
Screens, July 7, 2006
Stagecoach
John Wayne has been called many things, but "beautiful" isn't often one of them
Screens, June 16, 2006
Beyond Big Tex
'Ride Around the World' IMAXes cowboy culture
Screens, June 2, 2006
It's Always Fair Weather
The quintessential musical for sentimental cynics
Screens, May 12, 2006
The Complete Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report)
'That film was taken away from me completely, and was totally destroyed in the cutting,' Orson Welles lamented. 'That was the real disaster of my life.'
Screens, May 5, 2006
The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends
Screens, March 24, 2006
Perfect Match: 'The Life of Reilly'
Interviews and reviews
Screens, March 17, 2006
The Recognizables
One night, one of a kind
Screens, March 10, 2006
Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection
Screens, Jan. 27, 2006
The Missouri Breaks
As shape-shifting, lavender-scented 'regulator' Robert E. Lee Clayton, Marlon Brando delivers the most self-indulgent performance of his career, and that's saying a lot
Screens, Nov. 25, 2005
Taxi: The Complete Third Season
It could be the series' best
Screens, Nov. 18, 2005
The Bela Lugosi Collection
'Poor Bela,' Boris Karloff once lamented to an interviewer who asked him about his old rival. 'He was his own worst enemy.'
Screens, Sept. 16, 2005
Martin & Lewis
'What we had,' said Jerry Lewis, 'was lightning in a bottle.' And now we have it in public domain.
Screens, July 1, 2005
The Hired Hand
After Easy Rider, partners Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper rode off into their separate sunsets -- Hopper to Peru to film his demented classic, 1970's The Last Movie, and Fonda back to the familiar family tradition of the American Western for his directorial debut, The Hired Hand.
Screens, Nov. 28, 2003
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin wanted The Gold Rush to be the film we remember him by. It is, especially in the form of this two-disc release, and Steve Uhler explains why.
Screens, Aug. 15, 2003
Little Big Man
Arthur Penn's film is an eclectically epic anti-Western that turns Ford's red-hued racist conventions on their ear.
Screens, June 13, 2003
Smoke (1995)
Screens, May 16, 2003
Greed (1925)
Erich von Stroheim's 10-hour masterpiece-cum-folly, 1925's Greed, is the Holy Grail of Silent Film, a film which exists only in dusty script fragments, fading publicity stills, and the imaginations of dreamers.
Screens, April 11, 2003
Back in the Saddle Again
Peter Fonda revisits his directorial debut, 'The Hired Hand'
Screens, March 7, 2003
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