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Anatomy of a Fall gets me thinking. This is an all-encompassing motion picture. Its characters, plot and theme stimulate, stir and soothe all at once in waves. At times, it’s an edge-of-the-seat, intellectual thriller. The movie’s sharp, visceral, emotional, psychological and extremely challenging. It’s likely to get you thinking, too.

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Scott Holleran reviews the 2023 motion picture musical version of the novel.

Bonnie Franklin, leading actress on Norman Lear’s One Day at a Time (1975 to 1984), was born 80 years ago on this date.

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My movies reporting originates with two 1993 films I reviewed when they were later released on home video; Swing Kids and Rudy. Both are emotionally powerful movies by my judgment. Both received sincere and passionate reviews by yours truly. By then, I was writing news, opinion, sports and features—i.e., articles about people, books, radio, interviews, broadcasting, arts and music—and other journalism. The climax of my movie journalism occurred after the turn of the century. For six years, I worked as a partner, writer and editor for Box Office Mojo, a movie website, which no longer resembles Brandon Gray’s original website, which he founded as a box office tracking source (it evolved upon my 2002 contracting as an editorial operation).

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Reading Iron Pioneer: Henry W. Oliver 1840 to 1904 by Henry Oliver Evans (1942, Dutton and Company) affords an account of another world—during the climax of the Industrial Revolution—through the life and times of Pittsburgh’s perfect capitalist. Beginning with a phrase in Latin, ending with a poem by Tennyson and logging main lines, this family narrative about a forgotten titan both concretizes and explains the archetypical American industrialist. This one’s a tall, slender, self-made man of ability named Henry Oliver. You’ve probably not heard of Mr. Oliver unless you’re from Pittsburgh. This is another sign of Western impoverishment. Henry Oliver is a name every American ought to know. Iron Pioneer excavates the reason why.

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