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Hal Drucker’s Top 10 Pre-Oscar Movie Picks

By Hal Drucker


May/June 2011

White Christmas, The Ego and the Id, Other Desert Cities, Man & Boy, Seminar, Private Lives, The Mountaintop, Follies, Relatively Speaking, Christopher Plummer in Henry V, Ching-lish, Revelations, Big Apple Circus Dream Big, Descendants, The Skin I Live In, Margin Call,  J.  Edgar, Karen Akers Sings Sondheim, Picasso’s Drawings, The Ronald S. Lauder Collection, Poet Robert Burns, Georges Braque, Joshua Bell


May/June 2011

Pre-Tony Award Picks, War Horse, Anything Goes, The Book of Mormon, Arcadia, Catch Me if You Can, How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Jerusalem, Wonderland, Kin, The People in the Picture, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Born Yesterday, In a Better World, Incendies, The Lincoln Lawyer, Potiche (Trophy Wife), Puzzle, Bride Flight, Rooms with a View, Imaginary Landscape Series, David McCullough with New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik, Eva Gabrielsson, Jazz in July, Reader Feedback on My Top 20 WWII Songs

By Hal Drucker


My Top 20 WWII Songs

By Hal Drucker


My 10 Favorite Elizabeth Taylor Movies

By Hal Drucker


March 2011

Other Desert Cities, War Horse, Good People, The Whipping Man, Black Tie, The Importance of Being Earnest, That Championship Season, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lyrics & Lyricists, Broadway’s Classic Hits, In a Better World, The Rabbit Hole, Incendies, Hallelujah Junction, Cézanne’s Card Players Series, Emperor’s Private Paradise, Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914, Rembrandt and His School

By Hal Drucker


Hal Drucker’s Top 10 Pre-Oscar Movie Picks

By Hal Drucker


My 10 Top Boxing Movies
(and why I’ve included The Fighter)

By Hal Drucker


January 2011

Brief Encounter, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Freud’s Last Session, Les Misérables, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Divine Sister, A Life in the Theater, The Scottsboro Boys, The Pitmen Painters, Lombardi, Driving Miss Daisy, Office Hours, The Grand Manner, A Free Man of Color

By Hal Drucker


November 2010

The Social Network


By Hal Drucker


Words and Phrases that Bug the Hell Out of Me (especially when they're Overworked in Commercials, Diplomatic-speak or Columns like Mine)

By Hal Drucker


July 2010

Legally Blonde; The Musical, Time Stands Still, Everyday Rapture, Fences, Come Fly Away, Promises, Promises, Race, Fela!, Rock of Ages, With a Song in His Heart


By Hal Drucker


Hal Drucker's Picks For The 2009/2010 Theater Season
Red, Sondheim on Sondheim, Fences, Closer Than Ever, Finian’s Rainbow, Zero Hour

By Hal Drucker


February 2010
Time Stands Still, Ragtime, A Little Night Music, Race, The Understudy, Present Laughter, A View from the Bridge, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Fela!, Rock of Ages, The Book of Eli, It’s Complicated!, Me and Orson Welles, North Face, The Messenger, Brothers, The Girl on the Train, Crazy Heart, The Frick Collection, American Folk Art Museum, Wild Thyme

By Hal Drucker


Hal Drucker's Top 9* Movies of 2009
(*in deference to the movie Nine, and because I don’t have a 10th top movie)

By Hal Drucker


November 2009
Finian’s Rainbow, Hamlet, A Steady Rain, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Superior Donuts, The Royal Family, The Night Watcher, Bye Bye Birdie, Memphis, ‘Broke-Ology’, Amelia, The Informant!, An Education, American Stories; Paintings of Everyday Life, Kandinsky, Serge Sabarsky Collection, Rosemary Connor

By Hal Drucker


August/September 2009
Julie and Julia, Cloud 9, A Woman in Berlin, The Hurt Locker, God of Carnage, Pure Confidence, Kalkwerk, Jazz in July Festival, Anita O’Day, Celebrating Giacomo Puccini's 150th Birthday

By Hal Drucker


June/July 2009
Twelfth Night, Free Concerts, Mostly Mozart, Jazz In July Festival At The 92nd Street Y, Bloomsday On Broadway, Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files, They Called Me Mayer July, Rarely Seen Drawings in the Middle Ages, First Complete 2-Disc Recording Of Allegro

By Hal Drucker


Top Broadway and Off-Broadway picks for the 2008-2009 Season

By Hal Drucker


May 2009
God of Carnage, West Side Story, Hair, Next to Normal, Happiness, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, South Pacific

By Hal Drucker


March 2009
Guys and Dolls, The Cripple of Inishmaan, 33 Variations, Blithe Spirit

By Hal Drucker


My 25 Favorite Movie Comedies

By Hal Drucker


Februrary 2009
God Save the Scream, The Class, Speed the Plow, Pal Joey, MoMA

By Hal Drucker


January 2009
Slumdog Millionaire, Doubt, W, Revolutionary Road, Last Chance Harvey, The Changeling, Burn after Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Yonkers Joe, Cargo 200, Waltz with Bashir, Saturn Returns

By Hal Drucker and Zach Drucker


Top Ten Movies of 2008

By Hal Drucker


November 2008
Billy Elliot the Musical, American Buffalo, A Body of Water, A Tale of Two Cities, All My Sons, A Man For All Seasons, Three Changes, Dividing the Estate, Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Seagull, Tell No One, I've Loved You So Long, A Secret, Happy Go Lucky

By Hal Drucker