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This Week In Cinema: December 08-14, 2013

Posted on December 15, 2013 | 2 comments

frozen

I live in Illinois, I’m used to living in an eternal winter!

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Posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 2010s, Australia, Austria, Chad Hartigan, Chris Buck, Fred Zinnemann, Gerard Lee, Jane Campion, Jeffrey Friedman, Jennifer Lee, Jim Rash, Jonás Cuarón, Lauren MacMullen, Louis Schwartzberg, Nat Faxon, Ninja Thyberg, Peter Kubelka, Rob Epstein, Sweden, This Week In Cinema, United States Of America

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Retro Week In Cinema: September 12-18, 2013

Posted on September 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

black swan

Have I ever mentioned that I’m a fan of Giallo, because I am!

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Posted in 1940s, 1960s, 2010s, Canada, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell, Ethan & Joel Coen, Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren, Retro Week In Cinema, Stan Brakhage, United States Of America

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Review: Che: Part Two (2008)

Posted on July 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

che part two

Can interesting moral quandaries overcome an inert narrative?

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Posted in 2000s, 400+ Word Reviews, France, Spain, Steven Soderbergh, United States Of America

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Review: Che: Part One (2008)

Posted on June 29, 2013 | 1 comment

che part one

Oooh, a film about a filthy Commie, how charming!

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Posted in 2000s, 400+ Word Reviews, France, Spain, Steven Soderbergh, United States Of America

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Retro Week In Cinema: April 04-10, 2013

Posted on April 11, 2013 | 2 comments

who framed roger rabbit

I’m not gonna lie, the first time I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit I was much more interested in Jessica Rabbit than Roger Rabbit!

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Posted in 1930s, 1980s, 2000s, Canada, Germany, Gregory La Cava, Martin Scorsese, Retro Week In Cinema, Rob Marshall, Robert Pulcini, Robert Zemeckis, Shari Springer Berman, United States Of America

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Retro Week In Cinema: March 21-27, 2013

Posted on March 28, 2013 | 7 comments

the african queen

Being stuck on a boat with Katharine Hepburn doesn’t sound like a bad time at all!

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Posted in 1940s, 1950s, 1990s, 2000s, Cameron Crowe, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, John Huston, Lewis Milestone, Omar Naim, Retro Week In Cinema, Sofia Coppola, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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This Week In Cinema: February 24-March 02, 2013

Posted on March 3, 2013 | Leave a comment

being john malkovich

My own head is crazy enough that I wouldn’t for the life of me want to take a trip into someone else’s head!

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Posted in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, China, Cyrus Nowrasteh, David Lynch, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Gerardo Olivares, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Jim Sheridan, John Sayles, Kaige Chen, Laurie Collyer, Robert Redford, Sofia Coppola, Spain, Spike Jonze, This Week In Cinema, United Kingdom, United States Of America, Yôjirô Takita

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This Week In Cinema: February 17-23, 2013

Posted on February 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

adaptation.

My creative process is nowhere near as draining, that probably explains why I’ve never been all that creative!

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Posted in 1930s, 2000s, 2010s, Canada, Howard Hawks, Jon Favreau, Nicolas Winding Refn, Richard Rosson, Spike Jonze, Stuart Gillard, This Week In Cinema, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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This Week In Cinema: December 25-31, 2011

Posted on January 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

I am not an all seasons type of guy, I’m mainly a fall and winter sort of fellow!

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Posted in 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Alastair Fothergill, Fred Zinnemann, Japan, Keith Scholey, Kirk R. Thatcher, Kizo Nagashima, Larry Roemer, Neil Jordan, Nick Castle, Spike Lee, This Week In Cinema, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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30 Day Film Challenge: Day 28 – The Most Obscure Film You’ve Ever Seen: The Magic Box (1951)

Posted on August 16, 2011 | 6 comments

In this day and age of DVDs, Netflix, streaming, and torrents obscure doesn’t mean quite what it used to!

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Posted in 1950s, 30 Day Film Challenge, John Boulting, United Kingdom

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