Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever

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Sunday, August 9, 2020

Pollyanna (1960)

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In the interest of coping with a dark time, I picked the most famously optimistic movie I could think of. OK, all I really knew about it was...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

City for Conquest (1940)

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Already another mid-20th-century drama with an alliterative title in the "X for Y" format, based on a book, with Anthony Quinn in...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

The Old Maid (1939)

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I've seen enough late-'30s and early-'40s dramas about the love lives of class-conscious 19th-century women to conclude that it ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The Uninvited (1944)

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Martin Scorsese and Guillermo Del Toro count this among their favorite horrors. In earlier days, it stood out as one of the first non-comedy...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Broken Blossoms (1919)

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I first heard of this silent as evidence that D.W. Griffith was not really a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, just a storyteller who used whatever ...
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