A bit late again. Good thing there wasn’t a lot on Monday or Tuesday worth looking at anyway. So we’ll start in on Wednesday. The movie channels apparently decided to dump EVERYTHING they had for the turn of the new year, because the 31st and 1st are jam packed. Craziness. I also threw in some [...]

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Tagged:adaptation, Bringing Up Baby, Die Hard, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, It Happened One Night, King Kong, Libeled Lady, Looney Tunes, Modern Times, Nothing Sacred, Planet of the Apes, Shall We Dance, Stagecoach, That's Dancing!, That's Entertainment, The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Awful Truth, The Cat's Meow, The Quiet Man, The Red Shoes, The Seven Year Itch, Them!, They Were Expendable, Two for the Road

Merry Christmas, everyone! I apologize for not getting this out on Sunday. I was having eureka moments in programming and it completely slipped my mind.
Tuesday, 23 December
12:35am / 11:35pm (24th) – Sundance – 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Another chance at one of the best movies from last year.
Wednesday, 24 December
11:10am / 10:10am – [...]

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Tagged:4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Annie Hall, Au revoir les enfants, Ben-Hur, Bringing Up Baby, Casablanca, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Fahrenheit 451, High Sierra, Howl's Moving Castle, Lawrence of Arabia, Meet Me in St. Louis, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Rashomon, Sabrina, The African Queen, The Big Sleep, The Bishop's Wife, The Constant Gardener, The Cooler, The Great Escape, The Maltese Falcon, The Princess and the Warrior, The Seven Samurai, To Have and Have Not, True Grit, Woman of the Year

The film blogosphere has another meme going around, this time started by Nathaniel R. of Film Experience, who has called for bloggers to celebrate twenty of their favorite actresses. No one’s tagged me, but that never stopped me before! So many actresses are worthy to be on a list like this, but in the end, [...]

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Tagged:Aishwarya Rai, Amy Adams, Anna Karina, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, Cate Blanchett, Gloria Grahame, Grace Kelly, Irene Jacob, Jean Arthur, Katee Sackhoff, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Milla Jovovich, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel Weisz, Rebecca Hall

Though I obviously recommend all these films (or I wouldn’t list them here), I’m going to start putting MUST-SEE on ones that I’d say you, well, must see. That is, if you aren’t able to catch them on TV this week, put them in your Netflix queue. Or buy them. Something.
Thanks to those of you [...]

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Tagged:12 Angry Men, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, All About My Mother, Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ, Gaslight, Good News, Gosford Park, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, Howl's Moving Castle, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, My Favorite Wife, Paths of Glory, Shadow of a Doubt, Strictly Ballroom, The 400 Blows, The Apartment, The Great Escape, The Hidden Fortress, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Player, The Third Man, Topkapi, Topsy-Turvy, Trainspotting, You Can't Take It With You

Really well cut together collection of inspirational speeches from the movies. Hits all the obvious ones (Braveheart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) plus some you might not expect (Animal House, The Muppets). The ending is a bit abrupt, but I can’t complain.

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Because they’re hot on my mind, I’m going to highlight the two bands I’ve seen most recently. They go together nicely, too – indie-pop husband/wife duos.
The Rosebuds

The Rosebuds, aka Kelly and Ivan, hail from North Carolina, and take on a number of stylistic hats in their various albums, from the sunny yet dark-undertoned folksy pop [...]

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Tagged:The Rosebuds, The Submarines

Monday, 8 December
None. Can you believe it?
Tuesday, 9 December
11:30am / 10:30am – TCM – The Bad and the Beautiful
TCM is running a Kirk Douglas festival, but including both The Bad and the Beautiful and Two Weeks in Another Town (at 6pm) makes a nice double feature of Douglas/Vincente Minnelli/Hollywood-on-Hollywood films. Gloria Grahame won her Best [...]

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Tagged:A Hard Day's Night, adaptation, Chicago, Children of Paradise, Christmas in Connecticut, Das Boot, Garden State, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, High Society, Jules et Jim, Little Women, Remember the Night, Singin' in the Rain, Strictly Ballroom, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Cooler, Two Weeks in Another Town

I’ve never been a big fan of horror films and usually try to avoid them, but the horror genre has become such a significant gap in my cinematic experience (“you’ve never seen Night of the Living Dead?! OMGWTFBBQ!”) that I decided to make a concerted effort during the month of October to catch up on [...]

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Tagged:horror films, Let the Right One In, Night of the Living Dead, Planet Terror, Retribution, Rosemary's Baby, Tales from the Crypt, Val Lewton