The Art and Culture of Movies
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Fassbinder and Herzog, Room 666

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 Fassbinder and Herzog on the state of cinema, from Wim Wenders' "Room 666" (1982):  Herzog: "I expect soon you'll be...
Saturday, May 08, 2021

Pardon Us (1931) Laurel & Hardy

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Laurel and Hardy's first feature-length comedy. They play a couple of "beer barons" during Prohibition who are arrested for se...

Summertime (1955) David Lean

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A light, frothy romantic comedy by David Lean. Katharine Hepburn is a secretary from Akron, Ohio on vacation in Venice, where she is quickly...
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The Tall Target (1951) Anthony Mann

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Dick Powell plays NY detective John Kennedy, who is traveling to Baltimore to foil a plot against Lincoln's life on the eve of his inaug...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Drivers Wanted (2012)

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Fascinating observational documentary about a NYC taxi garage, following a group of drivers as they tell their stories and how they came to ...

Missing 411 (2017)

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Watched this on Tubi tonight. I've been following the work of David Paulides for the past several years, which investigates the unexplai...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Men O'War (1929), Little details

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Early Laurel and Hardy short I caught on TV this morning. It's funny, there's a scene early on where they're talking with the gi...

The Last Blockbuster (2020)

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Watched this doc on Netflix last night, about the last remaining Blockbuster video store franchise in Bend, OR. Just a few years ago there w...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Mr. Topaze (1961)

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AKA I Like Money Peter Sellers' one and only directorial effort was this adaptation of a Marcel Pagnol play. Mr. Topaze (Sellers) is a m...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

A Chump at Oxford (1940)

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Watched this one again this morning. Stan Laurel's "Lord Paddington" character is often cited as perhaps the best performance ...
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Friday, February 19, 2021

Kate Plays Christine (2016)

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A while ago, I had watched Antonio Campos' excellent film Christine , starring Rebecca Hall as Sarasota television journalist Christine ...
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