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Remembering “Field of Dreams” on its 25th Anniversary
A Few Minutes With Writer-Director Phil Alden Robinson The Digital Bits is pleased to present this retrospective article commemorating the silver anniversary of the release of Field of Dreams, the...
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Wings of Change: Remembering Tim Burton’s “Batman” on its 25th Anniversary
“It has the personality not of a particular movie but of a product, of something arrived at by corporate decision.” — Vincent Canby, The New York Times Blockbuster. Juggernaut. Game Changer. The event,...
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X Marks the Spot: Remembering “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” on its...
“There was no way for Spielberg to top himself, and perhaps it is just as well that Last Crusade will indeed be Indy's last film. It would be too sad to see the series grow old and thin, like the James...
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Life in the Mafia: Remembering Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” on its 25th...
“I think the insane nature of the material pushed everyone to really innovate and react with their most deft artistic muscle.” — Glenn Kenny The Digital Bits is pleased to present this retrospective...
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Back from the Future: Remembering “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” on its 25th...
“Cameron’s achievement isn’t only technical. He’s using all the not-so-cheap thrills of a violent genre to make a movie with an antiviolence message, and the wonder of T2 is that he pulls it off...
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Revisiting The Bat, The Cat, and The Penguin: Remembering “Batman Returns” on...
“[Batman Returns is] the first auteur superhero movie. I think the execs at Warners realized that you just let Tim Burton alone and let him make a Tim Burton movie and people will see it in droves.” —...
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Criterion’s September slate, Warner Archive’s Batman: Mask of the Phantasm BD...
We’re doing a bit of server work here at The Bits today, but we’ve got a couple good things for you today… First up, Michael Coate has been busy again this weekend. He’s just turned in a new...
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An Epic Failure: Remembering “Far and Away” on its 25th Anniversary
“[The failure of Far and Away] taught Ron Howard that even in a star-driven vehicle, the story must be strong, and that action and character elements must be well integrated in order to achieve a...
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Coppola’s Bite: Remembering “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” on its 25th Anniversary
“The film may as well have been officially titled Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, because it so unmistakably bears the stamp of its director.” — Dracula FAQ: All That’s Left to Know about the Count...
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Cinema: Remembering “Jurassic Park” on its 25th...
“It takes a filmmaker as deeply imaginative, but also technically savvy as Steven Spielberg to orchestrate and bring [all of the elements] together into a cohesive whole that works with his intricate...
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School’s Out: Remembering “Dazed and Confused” on its 25th Anniversary
“Dazed and Confused is an admirably nuanced take on the teen movie that was congruent with the fresh wave of nineties entries in the genre.” – Thomas A. Christie, author of The Cinema of Richard...
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Failure Was Not an Option: Remembering “Apollo 13” on its 25th Anniversary
“It’s heartening to remember now, at a moment of sharp political divisions, how the whole world seemed to hold its collective breath when the three American astronauts were in mortal danger.” — Beverly...
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