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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog: The Godfather

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My name is Groggy Dundee. My natural habitat is the cinema. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the cinema.". Thursday, August 5, 2010. As a birthday gift for my dad, I'll review one of his favorite movies. Most of the classic gangster movies -. Were short, violent movies focused on entry-level thugs shooting their way up the criminal ladder. The genre had mostly burned itself out by the '60s, occasional hits like. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The fi...

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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog: State of Siege

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My name is Groggy Dundee. My natural habitat is the cinema. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the cinema.". Friday, July 31, 2015. Costa-Gavras is an equal-opportunity antiauthoritarian. After. 1969) attacked Greece's slide into reactionary dictatorship, he excoriated Communist repression in. 1972), fictionalizing the murder of CIA operative Dan Mitrione. It's a topical drama that hasn't dated, exposing hard truths about American foreign policy. Device ...

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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog: Conspiracy (2001)

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My name is Groggy Dundee. My natural habitat is the cinema. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the cinema.". Wednesday, August 14, 2013. Innumerable films depict Nazi Germany, but few bore down on its pernicious evil so effectively as Conspiracy. 2001) This HBO drama reconstructs the infamous Wannsee Conference. In meticulous detail, with a coterie of Nazi officials discussing the extermination of an entire race like a bill of lading. True, we see them e...

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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog: The Children's Hour

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My name is Groggy Dundee. My natural habitat is the cinema. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the cinema.". Friday, January 16, 2009. With the temperature dipping well below zero, a movie excursion was out of the question tonight, and I was treated by the fine people of Turner to a second viewing of William Wyler's excellent drama. Based on the play by Lillian Hellman,. And either way, is it too late to reverse their affects? Homosexuality was an issue ...

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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog: Decision Before Dawn

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My name is Groggy Dundee. My natural habitat is the cinema. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the cinema.". Saturday, March 19, 2011. 1951) is a really remarkable film. A Best Picture nominee in 1951, it's been virtually forgotten today, but its mixture of gritty authenticity and a surprisingly well-rounded portrait of wartime Germany makes a unique and powerful film. Sands of Iwo Jima. Were off-set by more grim and gritty fare like. And Gary Merrill (.

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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog: Southpaw

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My name is Groggy Dundee. My natural habitat is the cinema. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the cinema.". Saturday, August 1, 2015. No subgenre's more predictable than the boxing movie, and. 2015) has no surprises. Antoine Fuqua's latest is an R-rated. Revisiting old clichés with a violent edge. Only Jake Gyllenhaal's nervy performance saves it from the summer scrap heap. Fuqua and writer Kurt Sutter lace. Forest Whitaker does well in the Burgess Mere...

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Nothing is Written: A Film Blog: The Confession (1970)

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My name is Groggy Dundee. My natural habitat is the cinema. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the cinema.". Sunday, January 18, 2015. After savaging Greece's military junta in Z. 1969), Costa-Gavras targets Stalinist barbarity in The Confession. 1970) Based on Czech official Artur London's memoirs, it's an unfailingly bleak depiction of Communism as raw, dehumanizing power. Don't expect a good time. Like most Costa-Gavras movies, The Confession. Style d...

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Noblesse Oblige. Eine Alec Guinness Fan-Seite.

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Sir Alec Guinness - A Man of Many Parts. Umfangreiche englische Seite. Biografie, Zeitschriftenartikel, Bilder, Film- und Theaterinfos. Prisma Online - Alec Guinness. Biografie, Ausstrahlungsdaten demnächst im deutschsprachigen Raum gesendeter Guinness-Filme. The Sir Alec Guinness Online Shrine. Biografie, Filmografie, Bilder. Alles, was im britischen Kino Rang und Namen hat. Darsteller, Regisseure, Studios. Umfangreiche Informations-Seite über Meisterregisseur David Lean. The Guardians of Peace.

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looking through distorted glass: February 2012

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Looking through distorted glass. Personal film/video/music log (the backyard). Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Character studies for fiction: 'Louie's mugshot' - 2 / lost contact sheet. He didn't show the least remorse.". Paulo B. Menezes. Saturday, February 25, 2012. Characters studies for fiction: 'Louie's mugshot'. Paulo B. Menezes. Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Going places' applied irony exercises 1 and 2. 2011 Summer vacations in Tahiti with Scarlett'. Going places - Carnival season theme. It actually ...