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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Celluloid Heroes | March 26th 2008 by Paul McElligott
I’m fixin’ to do something dumber than hell, but I’m going anyways. Ten years ago, movies like this didn’t win Best Picture. They lost to safe, happy movies like Forrest Gump and Shakespeare in Love. By their usual standards, the Academy read more
The Last Emperor (1987)
Celluloid Heroes | March 9th 2008 by Paul McElligott
All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. Now you think you’re the worst of all! Perhaps the saddest line in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-sweeping epic, comes early when the 9-year-old Emperor Pu Yi (Tijger Tsou) naively t 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
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