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  • December 2, 2010

    'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications

    Dennis Harvey
    Dec 3, 2010

    'The Sound of Music' stretches its music empire into a new century with popular sing-alongs and a new home-entertainment release. When we look back at the 1960s, the phenomenon that was—and still somewhat is—The Sound of Music seems like an anomaly. But at the time it was more like the solid rock of reassuring constancy that masses clung to as waters of bewildering change rose all around them, a three-hour oasis of clean living and cheerful melody that wouldn't go away—no matter how many antiwar protesting, unisex...

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    'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications

    Dennis Harvey
    Dec 3, 2010

    'The Sound of Music' stretches its music empire into a new century with popular sing-alongs and a new home-entertainment release. When we look back at the 1960s, the phenomenon that was—and still somewhat is—The Sound of Music seems like an anomaly. But at the time it was more like the solid rock of reassuring constancy that masses clung to as waters of bewildering change rose all around them, a three-hour oasis of clean living and cheerful melody that wouldn't go away—no matter how many antiwar protesting, unisex...

  • Reviews

    Can't Stop the Musical: PFA's Classics

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 27, 2010

    As soon as the silent era hit sound circa 1927, musicals became a leading genre worldwide. How could their appeal possibly die out?

  • Reviews

    Can't Stop the Musical: PFA's Classics

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 27, 2010

    As soon as the silent era hit sound circa 1927, musicals became a leading genre worldwide. How could their appeal possibly die out?

  • Reviews

    Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 25, 2009

    Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.

  • Q & A

    The Buzz on H.P. Mendoza's 'Fruit Fly'

    Sura Wood
    Mar 9, 2009

    H.P. Mendoza talks about being a filmmaker in the Bay Area and the opening of his last musical, where he is both director and composer of the film 19 original songs.

  • Festivals

    Noise Pop Film Festival 2009

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 26, 2009

    About as far from the ever-increasing corporatization of popular music as you can get is the annual dose from the Noise Pop Festival.

  • Reviews

    Review: 'Love Songs'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 3, 2008

    'Love Songs', a truly gay musical utterly devoid of camp, causes critic Dennis Harvey to reassess France's take on the genre.

  • Reviews

    Review: 'Love Songs'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 3, 2008

    'Love Songs', a truly gay musical utterly devoid of camp, causes critic Dennis Harvey to reassess France's take on the genre.

  • Reviews

    Reviews: "La Vie en Rose;" "Crazy Love"

    Steve Ramos
    Jun 5, 2007

    Despite the best efforts of method actors, methodical directors, and talented costume designers, biopics can usually be relied upon to disappoint.

  • Q & A

    "Once" Again -- A Date With Carney, Hansard, and Irglova

    Michael Guillen
    Jun 1, 2007

    Walking in to interview John Carney and actors/musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, the frenetic edge to their on-the-road exhaustion is apparent.

  • Reviews

    The Eye Candy of 'Tears of the Black Tiger'

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 6, 2007

    Tears of the Black Tiger is Thai eye candy, an exercise pastiche where color just about leaps off the screen, and a star-crossed love story.

  • Reviews

    "The Lubitsch Touch"

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 18, 2007

    The Pacific Film Archive retrospective on Ernst Lubitsch encompasses 21 features, including many seldom-seen silent movies.

  • Reviews

    Music Videos At the Museum

    Max Goldberg
    Nov 29, 2006

    MTV's boat has long since sailed, but music videos are as ubiquitous on YouTube and Myspace as YBCA brings music videos to its downstairs gallery.

  • Q & A

    By the Numbers -- The Making of "Colma: The Musical"

    Susan Gerhard
    Jun 21, 2006

    Wong weighs in on the hardest song to bring to life in Colma: The Musical, a story about a city in which the dead outnumber the living.

  • Reviews

    "Songbirds" New Tune

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 1, 2006

    Songbirds is a "documentary musical" Ñ something that sounds like a pure contradiction-in-terms until you actually see it.


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