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Sweet!

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Talking about movies—archive

Film history and movie reviews from Michigan Today

by Frank Beaver

• 'Hugo' and the history of movies (January 2012)
• John Malkovich's magnificent creeps (November 2011)
• Vietnam in movies and memory (October 2011)
• Tennessee Williams (September 2011)
• Just like a real memory (July 2011)
• Summer 2011 movies (June 2011)
• Abe Lincoln on film (May 2011)
• Lillian Gish (April 2011)
• Great composers (March 2011)
• The King's Speech (February 2011)
• Three little gems (January 2011)
• The Farmers and the Helicopters (November 2010)
• Salvaging summer (October 2010)
• Combat documentaries old and new (September 2010)
• Creator of the long distance runner (July 2010)
• Jazz man (June 2010)
• Tim Burton: auteur fantastique (May 2010)
• Wolverine movie makers (April 2010)
• Watching movies: a few tips (March 2010)
• Grimness and hope (February 2010)
• Decade's best movies (January 2010)
• Tarantino's film history (November 2009)
• 100 years ago (October 2009)
• New aesthetic form in "Public Enemies" (September 2009)
• British writers (June 2009)
• David Duke and "Birth of a Nation" (June 2009)
• Celebrity autobiographies (May 2009)
• M-ollywood (April 2009)
• Children vs. the world (March 2009)
• '60s activism (February 2009)
• Year-end highlights (January 2009)
• All about Oliver (November 2008)
• Pine vs. Holly (October 2008)
• Summer 2008's best movies (September 2008)
• What is Bollywood? (July 2008)
• Movies during wartime (June 2008)
• The future of movies (May 2008)
• The talkies' first great screenwriter (April 2008)
• Courtroom drama (March 2008)
• 40 years of violence and revolution (February 2008)
• Tying Hitchcock to the stage (January 2008)
• Julie Christie: then, now and forever (November 2007)
• The camera as storyteller (October 2007)
• Memories of film greats (September 2007)
• Film ratings: praise and criticism (July 2007)
• Not just the facts, ma'am (June 2007)
• Seasonal fare (May 2007)
• Journeys back: movies about return, and my visit to Vietnam (April 2007)
• Views of Vietnamese Life in Post-War Vietnam Films (March 2007)
• Journeys back: movies about return, and my visit to Vietnam (February 2007)
• Robert Altman at the University of Michigan (January 2007)
• "The Queen" and Film Monarchy (December 2006)
• Movie magic (November 2006)
• The fall 2006 film season (October 2006)
• Mixed genres (September 2006)
• Summer 2006 movies (August 2006)
• Demanding movies, part 2 (July 2006)
• Demanding movies, part 1 (June 2006)
• Japanese cinema surfaces (May 2006)
• Remembering the French new wave (April 2006)
• Angry Young Men and Kitchen Sink Realism (March 2006)
• Film theory applied, part 2: Cowboy "renovation" and "Brokeback Mountain" (February 2006)
• Biopics (January 2006)
• Film theory applied: "Junebug" and "The Passenger" (November 2005)
• Rudolf Arnheim's "Film As Art" (October 2005)
• Susan Sontag's "On Photography" (September 2005)
• Ron Howard: Emerging Auteur (July 2005)
• "Is this where we came in?" Moviegoing in the 1950s (June 2005)
• Creative geography (May 2005)
• When movies hit the road (April 2005)
• Observations on screen acting (February 2005)
• "Shrek 2" and "The Incredibles": family fun for adults (January 2005)
• When movie characters get intimate with the audience, that's "direct-camera address" (December 2004)
• Fright movies (October 2004)
• Culture and politics in 2004's movies (September 2004)
• Memorable World War II movies (June 2004)
• Documentary technique: the long good close-up (May 2004)
• Film, religion and the first amendment (April 2004)
• Women on the screen, then and now (February 2004)
• Little films (January 2004)
• 2003 holiday family films (December 2003)
• Betsy Blair (November 2003)
• 100 years of movies (October 2003)