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Woman wearing sunglasses with curly blonde hair in a city street.
Incoming

Jennifer Lawrence will play a Hollywood power agent for Paolo Sorrentino

by Charles Bramesco

The real-life Sue Mengers’ client list includ­ed Bar­bra Streisand, Cher and Michael Caine.
A woman sitting at a table in a busy restaurant, smiling and holding a glass of wine. The restaurant appears to be bustling with other diners in the background.
In Praise Of

Why I love Katharine Hepburn’s performance in Summertime

by Gabriela Almeida

In David Lean’s dreamy 1955 romance, the Hol­ly­wood icon sub­tly plays with her usu­al screen persona.
Two people in formal attire embrace on a canal-side path, with boats and buildings in the background.

What Hollywood gets wrong with cancer movies

by Emilia Rolewicz

Exces­sive­ly sen­ti­men­tal films like The Fault in Our Stars don’t reflect my expe­ri­ence with the condition.
Historic Victorian-style house with gabled roof, ornate windows, and leafless trees.
Beginnings

Beginnings: Ida Lupino’s London

by Adam Scovell

Vis­it­ing the leafy Lon­don street where the pio­neer­ing Hol­ly­wood actor and film­mak­er came of age.
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In Praise Of

An auteur and his flying machine: Brewster McCloud at 50

by Saffron Maeve

Robert Altman’s long-over­looked satire reflects the director’s frus­tra­tions with the Hol­ly­wood stu­dio system.
Image shows text saying "Photographed in Technicolor" with the Technicolor Director listed as "Natalie Kalmus" and the Associate listed as "Richard Mueller".

The Technicolor couple who changed the look of cinema

by Kristina Murkett

Dur­ing the 1930s and ​’40s, Her­bert and Natal­ie Kalmus rev­o­lu­tionised the art and busi­ness of Hol­ly­wood filmmaking.
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Review

Mank

by Hannah Strong

The man behind the man behind Cit­i­zen Kane is the sub­ject of David Fincher’s sparkling paean to clas­sic Hollywood.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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It’s Hollywood versus Hearst in the full trailer for Mank

by Charles Bramesco

David Finch­er pits art against com­merce in the sto­ry of Her­man Mankiewicz’s trag­ic downfall.
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Incoming

David Fincher transports viewers to a bygone Hollywood in the Mank trailer

by Charles Bramesco

The director’s first fea­ture film in six years tells the sto­ry of how Cit­i­zen Kane was written.
A black and white image of a woman in an ornate dress and a man in a suit, posing together in a dramatic theatrical setting.
In Praise Of

Why Sunset Boulevard remains a glorious Gothic horror

by Sam Moore

Bil­ly Wilder’s clas­sic Hol­ly­wood satire from 1950 is also a great post-mod­ern ghost story.