Zita Short

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Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘Ghost’ (#19)

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ (#29)

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) feels out of place in the cinema landscape of the 1980s. It seems like a picture that would have been made in the 1940s, when Hollywood...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘The Awful Truth’ (#77)

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘Dark Victory’ (#32)

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘Splendor in the Grass’ (#47)

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘Ninotchka’ (#40)

When Ninotchka was released in 1939, it represented a step in the right direction for Greta Garbo, who could easily claim to be the world’s least versatile actress. She played a haughty...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘The Graduate’ (#52)

In many ways, time has not been kind to The Graduate (1967). Upon the first release, it was rapturously embraced by the counterculture generation. They saw Benjamin as an anti-establishment hero who...

Op-Ed: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions – ‘Pillow Talk’ (#99)

Pillow Talk (1959) can probably hold claim to being one of the most influential films of the 1950s. I know that you’re probably scoffing as you read that last sentence and wondering...

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