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Fun With Lists
Coosa Creek Mambo | April 6th 2008 by Cinefare
Nayana, over at the Center Seat, has been playing with lists lately, and recently Pat has joined her, so I thought, why not . . . First up, here’s the AFI top hundred American Films that Nayana referenced here. Note that the AFI lists only Amer read more
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Celluloid Heroes | December 1st 2007 by Paul McElligott
Nobody ever lies about being lonely. In lesser hands, this movie would have been one long soap opera, but this adaptation of James Jones’ rather bawdy novel manages to wring real human drama out of its characters instead. The real miracle is that read more
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Celluloid Heroes | November 18th 2007 by Paul McElligott
They can fly rings around the moon, but we’re years ahead of ’em on the highway. What was it in the water in 1977 that directors of classic sci-fi movies couldn’t leave well enough alone? Long before George Lucas had turned the words “Han Sh read more
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Celluloid Heroes | October 21st 2007 by Paul McElligott
You ain’t heard nothin’ yet. Economists have a term known as creative destruction. That’s when a new innovation appears on the market and the established order of an industry has the proverbial rug pulled out from under its feet. The introduct read more
Laura (1944)
Celluloid Heroes | July 17th 2007 by Paul McElligott
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. As a teenager in the 1940s, my mother was a self-professed movie buff, spending a lot of her free time with her friends at the matinees and double features in Schenectady, New York, where she grew read more
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