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Take Your Ears to the Movies
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By Nick Fouriezos
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Raise your hand if you’ve watched one of the best picture nominees this year. Two of them? It’s been a tough year for movies and moviegoers. But audio has thrived. So why not scratch your film itch from the comfort of your headphones? Take note of these scintillating stories, from the French inventor whose death birthed Hollywood to the invisible woman behind some of cinema’s greatest films … and one of its most scandalous love triangles.
pod of the week
One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest and 1991 s
The Silence of the Lambs, have done since.
Nobody had expected much from
It Happened One Night, including its stars. Gable had been sent by mighty MGM, where he was under contract, to lowly Columbia as a punishment, and Colbert, who had clashed with Capra on their 1927 collaboration
For the Love of Mike, had refused to do the film unless her salary was doubled and the film was completed in just four weeks.
The film, which was originally titled
Night Bus and was shot in 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression, centers on a spoiled heiress (Colbert) who runs away and is pursued first for a story, and eventually for love by a working-class newspaperman (Gable). Upon the film s completion, Colbert told a friend, I just finished the worst picture in the world.
In
Mank, there’s a scene where screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, played by
Gary Oldman, awakens disoriented in a California mansion. He soon wanders out back to a film set, where he encounters two studio bigwigs. One of them is Louis B. Mayer, the co-founder of MGM. The other is Irving G. Thalberg, a producer who has his own Academy Award named after him. Thalberg has to explain to Mayer who “Mank” is, even though he co-wrote one of their movies (just as he co-wrote, or depending on who you ask, wrote
Citizen Kane, often considered the greatest movie ever made).
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