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AFI Post #2 becomes Filmsite Post #2: Citizen Kane

I’m continuing the project I set myself, but I’m changing lists.  Rather than AFI Top 100 American films I’m going to use Filmsites 100 Greatest Films.  The Filmsite list overlaps the AFI list...

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Filmsite Post #3: On the Waterfront

Filmsite movie #3 (and again, the number is simply the order I’m watching them in): On the Waterfront (1954).  I have a lot less to say about this one.  While I’m glad I saw it, it just didn’t leave me...

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Filmsite Post: Catching Up for Spring 2011 Part 1 (Movies #4, #5, and #6)

Like an old dog to an old bone, I return to gnaw at this blog some more.  I’m hoping to make major inroads on this list over the summer so I can make my goal of watching them all this year). Just for...

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Filmsite Post: Catching Up for Spring 2011 Part 2 (Movies #7, #8, and #9)

#7 Psycho (1960):  Another film that I can’t believe I hadn’t watched before.  In this case it is likely because I’d seen so much about it, and I’d seen the infamous shower sequence so many times, it...

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Once more unto the blog, dear friends

It has been nearly a year since I wrote anything here.  My film review project just fell flat – I was getting less and less interested in anything I had to say about those films and the whole thing...

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Summer Movies 2013

I thought I’d transfer my movie posts from Facebook here, for various reasons.  I’ll post several at once. Summer Netflix Queue movie #1 – The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 2008): I really enjoyed this...

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. II

Summer Movie #11 – On the Edge (Herman Yau, 2006): This was not the action film I expected, but was much more of a drama. No big action sequences or stylistic camera work, this is more about realism. A...

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. III

Summer Movie #21 – District 13: Ultimatum (Patrick Alessandrin, 2009): This is a sequel to the 2004 film, District 13. The films are set in Paris in the near future where all of the poor and...

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. IV

Summer Movie #31 – The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen, 2001): Although I watch the action movie and eat of the beef (Buffy reference) I’ve never seen any of these, so I thought I’d give it a shot....

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. V

Summer Movie #50 – The Foreigner (Amos Poe, 1978): Would you believe this was on TCM last night?  Poe was one of the significant figures in the New York underground film scene chronicled in the...

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. VI

Summer Movie #51 – Behind the Rainbow (Jihan El-Tahri, 2008): This excellent documentary deals with the political rivalry between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma for control of the ANC in South Africa.  The...

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. VII

Summer Movie #62 – Dark Passage (Delmer Davies, 1947): This is the third of the films starring one of the great Hollywood on- and off-screen couples, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.  It is directed...

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. VIII

Summer Movie #71 – Iron Sky (Timo Vuorensola, 2012): When I first saw the trailer for this – a Finnish-German-Australian movie about Nazi emerging from a secret base on the dark side of the moon to...

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Summer Movies 2013 #IX

Summer Movie #81 – Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987): I bought the trilogy on Blu-ray awhile back during one of those Amazon Gold-Box sales, but haven’t watched them. “Shifts in tax structure have made...

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Summer Movies 2013 Pt. X

Summer Movie #91 – Galaxy of Terror (Bruce D. Clark, 1981): It is called “Galaxy of Terror” and it was produced by Roger Corman. I think we can all see where this is going. This rather blatant “Alien”...

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