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Rachel Tsang

ArticlesJune 23, 2020

5 Times Poetry Went to the Movies

By Rachel Tsang

The Untold Want (W. Whitman) Features in: Now, Voyager (1942)  The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to…

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Articles, UncategorizedJune 10, 2020

HBO Max Pulls Gone With The Wind (1939): A response

By Rachel Tsang

It is as surprising to me as it is to you that I am jumping to the defence of Gone With the Wind. A…

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2010s, Drama, Mystery, ReviewsNovember 13, 2017

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Rachel Tsang

As I waited for the house lights to dim, the little old lady sitting next to me decided to strike up a conversation. She…

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2010s, Biography, Documentary, Mystery, ReviewsJanuary 4, 2017

Finding Vivian Maier

By Rachel Tsang

Finding Vivian Maier  begins with a series of brisk cuts: we move from one interview subject to another, and as we do so, each…

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1960s, Drama, Reviews, Romance, WarJuly 27, 2016

Ship of Fools (1965) – On Style & Stardom

By Rachel Tsang

Ship of Fools is maddeningly difficult to critique. How can a film that beats you over the head with its message also be quiet and…

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1930s, Articles, Classic, Drama, Movies, ReviewsJuly 15, 2016

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937): Why it’s Forgotten & Why it Matters

By Rachel Tsang

Having summoned four of their grown children, Barkley and Lucy Cooper break some difficult news: the elderly couple have been hit hard by the…

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2000s, Adventure, Drama, Reviews, Sci-FiDecember 28, 2015

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

By Rachel Tsang

The first time I saw A.I. Artificial Intelligence, I was just a kid. (In fact, I believe I was around the same age as David –…

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2010s, Drama, Reviews, WarOctober 24, 2015

Macbeth (2015)

By Rachel Tsang

There is perhaps no Shakespearean play more intensely cinematic in its potential than Macbeth. Lean and mean, clocking in at about two hours and…

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1950s, Drama, ReviewsSeptember 28, 2015

The Miniver Story

By Rachel Tsang

The Miniver Story opens with shots of London on VE Day, war-torn and weary, but tremendously glad that fighting is over at last. But we…

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1950s, Drama, Film Noir, ReviewsAugust 25, 2015

Ace in the Hole

By Rachel Tsang

Chuck Tatum is a big city reporter: whip-smart, but as contemptible and unscrupulous as they come. His tangled history of libel, adultery, alcoholism –…

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Sunset Boulevard is a little blog about the big and fascinating world of cinema. It's a world where gun-slinging cowboys, spirited southern belles and Italian-American gangsters have often roamed, among many other intriguing personalities. It's a world I have watched fondly from a distance, and which I hope to share through my writing.

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