Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
And once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more. This should take me through most of the sixties. I'll be ending with Oliver! from 1968. I've already done reviews for Lawrence of Arabia and The Apartment, so I'll be doing ten movies across eight days with two second looks. Now, I have seen all… Continue reading The Best Picture Winners at the Oscars: A Statement of Purpose Part IV
And I'm back at it for just a very short little stretch. Eight movies over five days, three of which are second looks. This will largely take care of the fifties before I start on another director's full work: John Boorman. I expect to enjoy a good bit of this, to be honest.
Why Ernst Lubitsch? Well, let me talk about when I became aware of him. I'd seen a couple of his films before, mostly the original To Be or Not to Be, but his name never really registered, and then the Criterion Collection announced the Blu-ray release of Cluny Brown in June of 2019, and it… Continue reading Ernst Lubitsch: A Statement of Purpose
Well, I'm back at it. Not much more to say, but I'll just add that this is where my previous reviewing is going to bite me a bit. Instead of doing ten like I would like to do, I've actually reviewed four of the next ten already, so to keep up with my preferred output,… Continue reading The Best Picture Winners at the Oscars: A Statement of Purpose Part II
Over the years, I've seen a few of Ralph Bakshi's films, most notably The Lord of the Rings which I remember picking up on the day it was released on DVD. I've also seen Wizards and Fire and Ice once, and I'm pretty sure that Cool World was one of my very early Netflix DVD… Continue reading Ralph Bakshi: A Statement of Purpose
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