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G.O.A.T Toppled: Armond White Takes On Classic Films

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Film, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

vertigo-8-300x199 Citizen Kane or Vertigo, which is more fun? Now that Sight & Sound’s decadal critics poll has given the #1 spot to Vertigo, toppling Citizen Kane (to #2), it confirms that film culture as we used to know it has toppled as well. Citizen Kane held sway as the “Greatest Film Of All Time” for so long that a lot of people
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Armond White on Singing in the Rain: The Citizen Kane of Musicals

Written by Armond White on . Posted in Arts & Film

Photo courtesy of City Arts. The fact that Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s 1952 Singin’ in the Rain was later to inspire art as different from itself and as unignorable as both Michael Jackson’s Black or White music video and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange suggests that maybe, as legend would have it, it really is the greatest movie-musical of
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