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Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

The 50 best TV shows of 2025: No 4 The Studio

A well-meaning studio executive's hopes for intelligent auteur-driven films are crushed by a profit-driven Hollywood system prioritizing marketable blockbusters.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

"Joan Crawford: A Woman's Face" Brings a Star's Genius to Light

I also consider her the greatest movie actress from the thirties to the fifties, if only for a handful of performances-indeed, for a handful of scenes. She was in few great films and not even many good ones, but her acting, at its peak, is different in kind from that of her similarly celebrated peers. Displaying both the most extreme artifice in self-presentation and the most authentic emotion in performance, she exemplifies Hollywood's paradoxes in concentrated form.
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