Film
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After having it strongly recommended to me several times by several different people, I finally devoted an evening to watching this movie. And I mean an evening: it's just under three hours long. I think a person of decent taste and intelligence could find it either sublime and profound, or pompous and pretentious. I'm in…
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I have a silly tendency to expect that actors and actresses who play characters I like will be people I would like as well. I know it makes no sense, but it happens all the time–all right, I admit it's worse when the person is a beautiful woman–and it was the case with Reese Witherspoon…
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This animated film is about 12 minutes long and should be watched at a time when you can give it your full attention. I think you'll find it worth your while.
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Several people have recommended this to me in the most enthusiastic terms possible, and as you probably know most critics seem to have loved it, and it's been nominated for, or received, a whole lot of awards. I watched it this past weekend, and although I'm not as taken with it as many apparently are, I…
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Among the people who would be most interested in this movie, I suppose I'm one of the last to see it. In the unlikely event that you don't already know, it's the story of a group of French Trappist monks in Algeria who must decide whether to leave or stay in response to the growing…
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Two or three, depending on how you count. The first one isn't "a movie," exactly: the BBC series from 1975, Edward the King, aka Edward the Seventh–it seems to have had the former title in the U.S., the latter in the U.K. In thirteen one-hour segments (which actually seem to have been assembled from half-hour…
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…is a good movie, a classic of its kind. But I never did understand how the murderous couple thought they could get away with it, because the means by which it's done are so implausible. Also, it's hard for me to look at Fred MacMurray and not think of Flubber. I didn't know until today…
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I had definitely mixed feelings about the Lord of the Rings movies. The last of those three was the subject of the very first Sunday Night Journal, back in 2004. Since then my view of them has grown more negative. I think my complaint that The films seem driven by a compulsion to overstate and overdo, to…
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I finished that last movie post earlier than usual Sunday evening, and my wife and I decided, after determining that no interesting Masterpiece was showing on PBS, to watch another of the 100+ (yes, really) movies and other programs saved on the DVR. As it was almost 9, we really didn't want to sit there for two hours, so…
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Some More Old Movies I see it's been about six weeks since my last set of movie commentaries; in that post I defined an "old movie" as "one that was old when I was young, which is to say, something made before roughly 1960." So it looks like I've watched roughly one movie per week…
Light On Dark Water 