From the Film Vault
Program Notes: Match Point (2005)
Woody Allen’s Match Point isn’t a comedy. Rather it's a Hitchcockian thriller about murder. Aside from its thriller elements, it's also a meditation about class, upward mobility, lust, and guilt.
Program Notes: David Copperfield (1935)
David Copperfield has a well-known director, name screenwriters and it certainly has a cast to die for. But the individual most responsible for the success of the film was David O. Selznick.
New on DVD: Super 8 (2011)
Movie Quiz: Blaxploitation
Blaxploitation films were by, for and about African Americans. Made cheaply throughout the 1970s, they made stars of performers like Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree and became pop cultural icons.
Program Notes: A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
The problem with Ronald Colman (1891-1958) was that he made acting look too easy. In 1935 he was cast as Sidney Carton, the hero of M-G-M’s A Tale of Two Cities. Colman’s performance is as impressive today as it was when first seen more than 70 years ago.
