Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever
Friday, April 24, 2015
Easter Parade (1948)
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What a ripoff: We never see the parade itself! ...OK, I didn't really come for that, and probably neither did others. In truth, the stor...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution (1965)
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It wasn't long ago that I rewatched Blade Runner at a theater, only this time aware that it was intended partly as a film noir. Now I s...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
A Night to Remember (1958)
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Since Easter Parade understandably has had a long wait, I decided on another semi-timely viewing: one of the most popular depictions of the...
Monday, April 20, 2015
Big Hero 6 (2014)
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My previous meager knowledge of the Marvel Comics superhero team came from an X-Men video game that identified Sunfire as a former member. T...
Saturday, April 11, 2015
You Can Count on Me (2000)
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I'm pretty sure this used to be on IMDb’s top 250; that's most likely how I took notice of it. Nowadays it stands out as having the...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Night Train to Munich (1940)
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Fans of The Third Man may well lament that Carol Reed didn't direct much else anywhere close to its esteem. His next best-known work is...
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
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My parents plan to visit Italy soon, so when we looked for a streaming movie of reasonably short length, it didn't surprise me that they...
Hercules (1997)
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In the past year or so, I've increased my viewing of animated features from the late '90s and early 2000s, when Disney had taken a d...
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
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I had a few reasons for giving this AFI showing priority. First, it's not available on Netflix even to save, so I wouldn't get much ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Ordet (1955)
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The British Film Institute's favorite films include quite a few artsy numbers that do next to nothing for me. Taking a suggestion from ...
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