October 2011
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La mariée était en noir (1968)
Also Known as “The Bride Wore Black”, a François Truffaut film with Jeanne Moreau as the widow who wants revenge for her husbands death. This film is François Truffaut’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock, made shortly after Truffaut had published a book of extensive interviews with Hitchcock.
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Kari-gurashi no Arietti (2010)
Also known as “Arrietty”, 14-year-old and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items that they borrow from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. With the voices of Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, David Henrie and Mirai Shida. A “smaller-scale” Ghibli...
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Edtv (1999)
A comedy about a video store clerk Ed whose life is thrown into chaos when he agrees to let an executive of a television studio film him for 24 hours. Directed by Ron Howard with Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Hurley and Ellen DeGeneres.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW_Imjn_aUk
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Little Children (2006)
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations. Different stories told contemporary, and I think it’s very well done, the storytelling is marvelous so is the acting, the moral at the end, it’s almost perfect, and I don’t say that...
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Lakeview Terrace (2008)
In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a safe compound. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the interracial couple and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth. It takes a really interesting view on racism and stereotypes, the...
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Young Adult (2011)
A Jason Reitman film written by Diablo Cody, (yes they were also responsible for “Juno”), with actors like Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Elizabeth Reaser and J.K. Simmons. Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now married with kids. Theron who plays Mavis Gary...
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Jane Eyre (2011)
There have been at least 18 film versions of “Jane Eyre”, this one is with actors like Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench and Jamie Bell. The most notable distinction that sets this film apart from the rest is its structure. Rather than telling the tale in a linear fashion, it begins at a crisis moment later in the story, and tells the majority of the tale in...
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
With actors like Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and Paul Burke. Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown, a successful, wealthy businessman pulls up in his Rolls and collects it. Vickie Anderson, an independent insurance investigator is called in to recover the huge haul. She begins to examine the people who knew...
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
I’m sure most of you have seen this film, or one that’s like this film. Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn’t ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered...
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This Must Be the Place (2011)
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S. Sounds weird? It is! I think “Cheyenne” Sean Penn’s character, gets more likable by every minute of the film, he gives a really great performance, as always. Sometimes he reminded me of the “Dude”. Paolo Sorrentino directed this original...
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Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)
Also known as “Rocco and his Brother” starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou and Claudia Cardinale. The deterioration of the brothers relationship reminds me of a Greek Tragedy. A truly great Italian movie by Luchino Visconti, sensational acting and with fantastic music by Nino Rota (The Godfather).
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The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania...
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All the President's Men (1976)
A little bit too long, but all in all a very interesting and historical movie with great actors like Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards and Jack Warden. The film realistically details the corruption that exists within politics and campaigning. Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon’s resignation.
Won 4 Oscars
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The many faces of Al Pacino
1. The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Serpico (1973)
4. Scarface (1983)
5. Donnie Brasco (1997)
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6. The Godfather Part II (1974)
7. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
8. And Justice for All (1979)
9. Cruising (1980)
Sea of Love (1989)
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
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Un chien andalou (1929)
This masterpiece is directed and written by Luis Buñuel and the great Salvador Dalí.
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open—juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye—to grab the audience’s attention. The French phrase “ants in the palms,” (which means that someone is ...
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Citizen Kane (1941)
An Orson Welles film starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingore. What can you say about the cinematography and direction and acting, that hasn’t already been said? The lighting, the camera angles, the new visual techniques and trick photography used for the first time in an American movie to great effect. Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz won an Oscar for best writing. See it...
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A Star Is Born (1937)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor machine (ruthlessly satirized). She and her idol Norman marry; but his career abruptly dwindles to nothing. With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March and Adolphe Menjou....
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Ghost Busters (1984)
I guess most of you already have seen this. Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up a shop in an old firehouse and become Ghost Busters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. With Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson and...
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