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A Letter to Elia - Watch the Peabody Award Winning Documentary Film by Martin Scorsese

Watch all of Martin Scorsese's Peabody award winning documentary, a personal labor of love, honoring the legendary Elia Kazan, here on the American Masters Web site.

Jun 6th, 2013 | 7 comments

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Garrison Keillor - Film Outtakes: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes

Watch outtakes from "Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes."

Jun 6th, 2013 | 30 comments

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Sister Rosetta Live! 1964: 'Didn't it Rain'

The scene is England in 1964. You hear the band playing when Sister Rosetta Tharpe pulls up on a horse drawn carriage to a make-shift stage at an abandoned railroad station. It's a rainy day and Sister Rosetta is in her Sunday overcoat. You can almost hear a train whistle blowing when she belts out "Didn't it Rain" accompanied by a full-blooded, swaggering electric guitar sound.

Jun 3rd, 2013 | 6 comments

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Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter - Watch the Full Documentary Film

Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey’s definitive documentary reveals the creative process and private world of the husband-wife design icons. Watch the full program here.

Jun 3rd, 2013 | 32 comments

Mel Brooks - Spaceballs: The Art of the Trope (or, making the cliché absurd)

What came first: the Mel Brooks movie or the cliché? The classic Hollywood Sci-Fi spaceship always gets gratuitous screentime from every camera angle. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood spaceship appears in a continuous one minute and 40 second scene detailing its ridiculous length.

Jun 2nd, 2013 | 0 comments

Mel Brooks - Young Frankenstein: The Art of the Homage (or, to spoof with accuracy)

For Mel Brooks the spoofing is in the details. The classic Hollywood Horror film is always black-and-white and includes scene transitions like iris outs, wipes and fades to black. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood Horror is no different. He even tracks down the original equipment from the mad doctor’s lab first used in the 1931 Frankenstein film.

Jun 2nd, 2013 | 3 comments

Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles: The Art of the Stereotype (and turning it on its head)

Mel Brooks never met a stereotype he couldn’t upend. The classic Hollywood cowboy is always white. Mel Brooks’s Hollywood cowboy is black. And his Indian chief speaks Yiddish.

Jun 2nd, 2013 | 3 comments
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