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    1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

    I have to wonder how extensive film criticism was in the 1930s. I've been reading a college thesis written about the history of film criticism, and how it has evolved over the past century. https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=honors Film criticsm...
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    1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

    I don't know what exactly made Gone With The Wind an evergreen classic. My father mentioned many times it was one of those films which would play every once in a while at theaters when he was a teenager and young adult. Typically a matinee or sleepy evening during the weekdays, where it would...
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    1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

    I strongly suspect something like this is with 20/20 hindsight. If one was an actual young adult or middle aged person living in 1939, would one have foreseen the brilliance of the films released that year in real time?
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