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The Women Film Critics Twitter List

Beth Ann Gallagher
Film Community, Film Critics, Film Twitter, Women Film Critics
Mar 6, 2016
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What else was I up to during my winter blogging hiatus? My most initially time-consuming movie project outside of Spellbound involves Twitter. After articles from Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Variety bemoaned the lack of women film critics or their lack of prominence in the industry, I decided to do something pro-active. I created a women film critics…

Quote: The Power of Silence

“One of the things that Scorsese said right from the beginning was that I want silence, silence, as much silence as possible. Of course the instinct of the sound editors is always to put tons of sounds in–things echoing, footsteps echoing, dripping water, and all of those things. When I first went in to do…

Accents & Sally’s Diction Lessons from Radio Days (1987)

Beth Ann Gallagher
Comedies, Directors, Judy Holliday, Mia Farrow, Old Time Radio, Woody Allen
Sep 8, 2012
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My husband told me he heard a young actress being interviewed who pronounces her Gs the same why I do. More specifically, she uses a hard G when saying words ending in -ing. That means walking would be pronounced as walk-ing-guh. The last syllable is more of a half-syllable and softer in the throat than…

The Bore Who Came To Dinner

My husband and I went on a holiday movie spree between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. In order to make the roster, the film had to be at least set during a holiday. It needn’t be a holiday classic. I kept putting off watching one of his selections, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942). I’d…

String of Pearls

At Chez Gallagher, we’ve been listening to String of Pearls. Film lovers of Hollywood’s golden age will enjoy this broadcast of “music from the golden years of entertainment”. BBC Wales host Dewi Griffiths’s program could be called stream of consciousness radio. Like a string of pearls where one pearl leads to another, one song leads…

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Quote: The Power of Silence

Accents & Sally’s Diction Lessons from Radio Days (1987)

The Bore Who Came To Dinner

String of Pearls