Guy Clark 1941-2016

“The thing about writing songs is, everything is songwriting”

"...born in the West Texas town of Monahans in 1941, and his songwriting both drew from and shaped the..."

May 17, 2016 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Playback: Guy Clark 1941-2016

End Transmission: Adios Guy Clark, and Transmission Events as we knew it

May 20, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Captain America, 1941-2007

RIP Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America. 1941-2007

March 8, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Dumbo

Another Disney live-action remake, but this one has a little magic

"...Mouse, and screenwriter Ehren Kruger have stripped the original 1941 film down to its studs and reconstructed it for..."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Exception

WW II melodrama lacks a charismatic lead

"...The Kaiser’s Last Kiss, The Exception is set in 1941 in the Netherlands, where Kaiser Wilhelm II (Plummer) is..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In Darkness

Agnieszka Holland, the director of Europa Europa, creates a blood-quickening Holocaust drama about Poles who were hidden in the sewers.

"...It's 1941 and the Germans are hunting for the few remaining..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Captain America: The First Avenger

Marvel Entertainment continues to pave the road for its forthcoming Avengers epic with another origin story for another superhero.

"...character who first burst onto comic book pages in 1941 with the Stars and Stripes emblazoned on his signature..."

July 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Way Back

In this film set in 1940 and directed by Peter Weir, seven multinational prisoners in a Siberian labor camp escape and walk 4,000 miles to safety in India.

"...the ice-and-lice-encrusted hell that was Stalin's Siberian gulags circa 1941, pretty much defines the story's stoic tone. Looking ever..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wolfman

This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.

"...a curse like Lon Chaney Jr. in Universal's stone-classic 1941 original (nor suffering from the contraction of the former’s..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Defiance

In this true story, Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber play two Jewish brothers who escape into the forest to elude capture by the Nazis and wind up birthing a small village of escapees.

"...of the Bielski family, three Jewish brothers who, in 1941, escaped into the forest of their native Belarus to..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

This celebratory documentary skips briskly over the 60-plus-year career of one of jazz's pre-eminent and most original singers.

"...O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer begins in 1941 when O'Day was discovered by the bandleader Gene Krupa..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Theresa Everline

The Radical Context

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

"...the subject of Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941, a 10-part film series that the Harry Ransom Humanities..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Evelyn

"...to the dictates of the Irish Family Act of 1941, a law that essentially forbade fathers sole custody of..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Down to Earth

"...directorial debut Heaven Can Wait (itself a remake of 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan), proving once again that no..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Land Girls

"...and Steven Mackintosh. Not reviewed at press time. In 1941 as World War II continues, England finds itself short..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Au Revoir, Mon Amour

"...until the opening of the Pacific theatre in December 1941; at that point, the Chinese resistance gets a hand..."

Aug. 19, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Let Him Have It

"...Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell and Eileen Atkins. London, 1941. The Blitz is on, and buried in the rubble..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

When Jack Jackson wasn't studying, researching, and presenting history in painstakingly drawn graphic novels, this wildly talented artist and scholar was making it himself

"...Seguin. By the time he came along in May 1941, his family had already been in the state for..."

June 16, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

"...painted murals for post offices in Giddings (1937), Arlington (1941), and Fredericksburg (1942). He also executed murals at Forest..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...overtly funny. (6/7-8) --Kate X Messer The Lady Eve (1941)..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

The Doom Generation

"...1941 D: Steven Spielberg; with Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature

All Shades of Black

How do you define film noir?

"...existence. In the years of its most classic period (1941-1958), no filmmaker deliberately set out to make a film..."

July 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...Another Thin Man, 1939; Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941; The Thin Man Goes Home, 1945; and Song of..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Returning as Shadows: A Novel of Mexico, 1941

Jay Trachtenberg on Paco Ignacio Taibo's sequel to The Shadow of the Shadow

"...Returning as Shadows: A Novel of Mexico, 1941 by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, translated by Ezra E...."

Aug. 29, 2003 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Book Review

Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Everything Is Illuminated' has appeared under an unusually beneficent conjunction of stars for a debut novelist. The first chapter was excerpted in 'The New Yorker'. The book was featured on the very cover of 'The New York Times Sunday Book Review'. Reviewer Roger Gathman explains why all the fuss is being made.

"...his grandfather barely escaped the Nazi killing machine in 1941, uses both the folkish idiom of Scholem Aleichem and..."

April 26, 2002 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Page Two

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. would call it a Wampeter.

"...1933-1941: Hank Greenberg, the Tigers' first-baseman, is perhaps the most..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Nick Barbaro

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...The Complete 1941-1947 Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) Anita O'Day & Gene Krupa..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Joan Baez I Am a Noise

The public, private, and secret lives of the folk icon

"...Born in 1941 to two immigrant parents – her father from Mexico,..."

Dec. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Beau Is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in this bloated Oedipal epic

"...around that age – and that's when he made 1941, a glorious mess of a movie that Spielberg himself..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Cursed

Historical werewolf horror takes an innovative bite

"...However, this is much more savage: In George Waggner’s 1941 classic, the Roma are as much a victim of..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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