Film
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There are probably going to be a number of these brief reviews of mostly old movies over the next month or so. We are about to cancel our "cable" TV service (actually over the phone lines–AT&T's TV+Internet service). It's crazy for us to keep it, since we almost never watch anything but PBS, TCM, and…
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Rock Around the Clock This is a completely negligible movie, apart from a couple of musical performances. There's Bill Haley and his Comets performing the title song, of course, as well as a couple of other tunes. Even better are the two performances by The Platters, and best of all their performance of "The Great…
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As I've often lamented, the little town where I live has gotten all uppity and is overrun with rich people, many of whom are artsy, which is sometimes almost as bad as uppity. But there are benefits, too, and one of them is that there is now a Fairhope Film Festival. It ran Friday through…
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I've had these two movies on DVR for quite a while now, recorded from Turner Classic Movies. I'm sure it's been over a year, and it may be two, because I think I recorded them not long after we subscribed to AT&T's Uverse service for Internet and TV. (The TV part is soon going to…
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Recent to me, I mean. Not very recently made. Devotion Made in 1946, this purports to be a biography of the Bronte sisters, but can most generously be described as "based upon." Among other historical crimes, it invents a love triangle involving Charlotte, Emily, and their clergyman father's vicar. It stars Ida Lupino as Emily…
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I saw this 1966 British comedy when I was a freshman in college and thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. Thirty years or so later, I saw it again (on VHS?–I can't remember) and was a little disappointed. It didn't seem as funny as I remembered. Recently, now forty-five years on, on…
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Destroy an office printer, I mean. Maybe you've seen this before, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if I've posted it before. The first two scenes here are from earlier in the movie, the rest near the end. (Office Space, and it's very funny.) Warning: a bit of rough language, and…
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Update: re-reading this, I think I gave away a bit too much of the plot, because I was trying to get to that main point mentioned toward the end. So consider this a somewhat spoiler-ish review. Also, in faintly praising it, I don't think I did justice to its purely dramatic appeal, which is definitely…
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I've been going through the Sunday Night Journal pieces, picking the ones to be included in a book, and have just read this one, which is relevant to the conversation we've been having about where in the popular-to-high-art spectrum great movies lie. It's a review of The Third Man, which despite the intentions expressed in the…
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