Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, playing at 12:30am on the 5th on TCM
Turner Classic Movies is apparently highlighting a different Great Director every night in June, showing some of their best movies. That means they are showing a BOATLOAD of great films. I’ve included a tiny intro to each director – note that after the director blurb, [...]

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Tagged:A Day at the Races, Angels With Dirty Faces, Arsenic and Old Lace, Before Sunrise, Ben-Hur, Captain Blood, Captains Courageous, Casablanca, Clerks, Dodge City, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Duck Soup, Frank Capra, Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman, It Happened One Night, Jezebel, John Ford, King Vidor, Les Diaboliques, Love Affair, Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mrs. Miniver, Nights of Cabiria, Persona, Roman Holiday, Saving Private Ryan, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stagecoach, Steven Spielberg, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Awful Truth, The Champ, The Crowd, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Player, The Quiet Man, The Seventh Seal, The Third Man, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Wages of Fear, Three Times, Waking Life, Wild Strawberries, William Wyler, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Yankee Doodle Dandy, You Can't Take It With You

Monday, March 16
5:00am – TCM – Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque
If you like American film since about 1970 or French film since the 1950s, then take a minute to thank Henri Langlois, founder of the Cinematheque Française in Paris. He showed American films from the 1940s, Italian Neo-Realist films, European artsy films, anything he [...]

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Tagged:A Place in the Sun, Angels With Dirty Faces, Dak Victory, Dogville, Freaky Fridaay, Frenzy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Hard Day's Night, Henri Langlois Phantom of the Cinematheque, Holiday, Moulin Rouge, No End in Sight, Oklahoma, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Raging Bull, Seven Bides for Seven Brothers, Stage Beauty, Sunrise, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The Caine Mutiny, The Life Aqautic, The Navigator, The Quiet Man, The Roaring Twenties, The Royal Tenenbaums, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Top Hat, Trainspotting, Two-Lane Blacktop, Wassup Rockrers

There wasn’t anything on Monday, so being one day late wasn’t a big issue. However, then my computer started misbehaving and I didn’t get it posted Monday night, either, which means this’ll post too late for the first few on Tuesday. But they’re good enough films that I let them stand. If they play again, [...]

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Tagged:2001: A Space Odyssey, Casablanca, Das Boot, Dr. Strangelove, Elephant, Gigi, Gold Diggers of 1933, Hannah and Her Sisters, Lawrence of Arabia, Primer, Roman Holiday, Shadow of a Doubt, Sophie Scholl, The Great Escape, The Jazz Singer, The More the Merrier, The Quiet Man, Top Hat, Trainspotting, Yankee Doodle Dandy

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

I rarely organize my collections alphabetically, at least not as the major organizational tool, since the letter the title starts with is usually less meaningful than the year it was made or the genre that it’s in. But there’s a meme going around film blogs (starting with Blog Cabins) to choose one favorite film that [...]

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Tagged:A Hard Day's Night, Band of Outsiders, City of Lost Children, Election, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, In a Lonely Place, JFK, Key Largo, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mulholland Drive, O Brother Where Art Thou, Persona, Rear Window, Sunrise, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Double Life of Veronique, The Fountain, The Naked Kiss, The Quiet Man, The Thin Man, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Women, Vertigo, X-Men, Young Frankenstein, Zodiac