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Michael Sragow

Michael Sragow, the author of Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, wrote, researched, and coproduced the feature documentary Image Makers: The Adventures of America’s Pioneer Cinematographers.

Jeff Goldblum, left, and Leonard Nimoy "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"(1978).

In Celebration of the Body Snatchers

Philip Kaufman’s sci-fi masterpiece Invasion of the Body Snatchers celebrates pre-tech San Francisco’s soul.

Jobyna Ralston was the warm, spunky leading lady who inspired Harold Lloyd to unforgettable classic romantic gags, especially when she played a traveling show dancer and he played a sheriff’s son in his masterpiece “The Kid Brother.”

Down at the Farm, in L.A.

Harold Lloyd creates a buoyant rural fantasyland in the 1927 silent film, “The Kid Brother,” and Charles Burnett reveals the Deep South in South L.A. in 1990's “To Sleep With Anger.” Both films are recent releases on DVD and Blu-Ray from The Criterion Collection, reviewed here by critic Michael Sragow.