by aditya | Dec 1, 2018 | Archive
Here we are. The last post in my A Star is Born series. I saved the best for last, as far as film quality. Fifth time’s the charm?Since this film is also set in the music world, it’s most directly a remake of the 1976 film, much the same way Switching Channels was...
by aditya | Dec 1, 2018 | Archive
Now we get to the least heralded version of A Star is Born. Does the 1976 version deserve its bad rep though?Start off with a positive: instead of simply duplicating the 1937 film and stretching the runtime monumentally like the 1954 remake did, this film went is a...
by aditya | Dec 1, 2018 | Archive
Now we get to the take on A Star is Born that had been most lauded so far. The 1954 film has long been heralded as the definitive version. While it’s been common in recent decades for non-musical films to be remade as musical films (albeit typically with a stage...
by aditya | Dec 1, 2018 | Archive
Now we get into the meat of my first project. The original A Star is Born is universally considered a classic. How does it hold up though? Despite being such a huge film buff, prior to starting this blog I had never seen any version of A Star is Born, unless you count...
by aditya | Dec 1, 2018 | Archive
I have quite an academic background and now that we started out this blog with a history lesson it’s time to transition to film studies.I said I’d begin with the “original original” A Star Is Born. What Price Hollywood? is appropriately enough the first film I watched...
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