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'It was probably the strongest picture I made': How Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life became a Christmas classic

BBC

'It was probably the strongest picture I made': How Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life became a Christmas classic Alamy Released in 1946, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life was derided as an "over-sentimental" Christmas yarn. On its release in 1946, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times critiqued It's a Wonderful Life for its tone, noting that "the weakness …

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Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Martin Schutt/picture alliance/Getty Images A broader study on Neanderthal ancestry, published Thursday in the journal Science, that analyzed information from the genomes of 59 ancient humans and those of 275 living humans corroborated the more precise timeline, finding that the majority of Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans can be attributed to a …

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1 year ago

Not such a wonderful life: The grim backstory behind the feelgood Christmas classic

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Yet like so many of the best Christmas stories – including this film’s key antecedent, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

How do you make an online community vibrant? Invent a new language of cinema, of course

LA Times

“Just invent a new language of cinema.” Simple enough, right? Paul Dano stars as Roaring Kitty, the eccentric financial investor of “Dumb Money.” Our first breakthrough came when we cracked the film’s opening after many false starts. Our instinct was to open the film with the high contrast between Gabe’s comfortable pandemic life, in side-by-side waterfront mansions in Miami, with …

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2 years ago

How It’s a Wonderful Life went from box office failure to Christmas classic

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “When we were pretty far along in the script but not done, our agent called …

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3 years ago

Christmas: The inspiration behind our favourite festive stories, from Scrooge to George Bailey and the Grinch

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Gabriel and the Goblin from The Pickwick Papers The tale of …

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5 years, 5 months ago

It’s a Wonderful Life: Paul McCartney writes first musical stage version of Frank Capra film

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Paul McCartney has revealed he is working on a musical …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Frank Capra meets John Doe: Politics and anti-politics in American film

ABC

Overtly political films have never been popular in American cinema. Meet John Doe Meet John Doe was the third and most ambitious of Capra's political films. John's initial attraction to the social world is money and luxury ― which the Colonel warns him is only the first step toward becoming a "Heelot." By reading speeches prepared by Ann, making use …

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'It was probably the strongest picture I made': How Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life became a Christmas classic

Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals

Not such a wonderful life: The grim backstory behind the feelgood Christmas classic

How do you make an online community vibrant? Invent a new language of cinema, of course

How It’s a Wonderful Life went from box office failure to Christmas classic

Christmas: The inspiration behind our favourite festive stories, from Scrooge to George Bailey and the Grinch

It’s a Wonderful Life: Paul McCartney writes first musical stage version of Frank Capra film

Frank Capra meets John Doe: Politics and anti-politics in American film