2023 movie viewings, #29. Letterboxd Scavenger Hunt #97: April 2023
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#6: Watch a movie starring a singer
This recently passed into the public domain, which means there's a lovely high-def cleaned-up version on YouTube completely free and legal to stream. It's of course famous for being the first-ever "talking" feature film, although I found it interesting during my research today to learn that this was a far…
2023 movie viewings, #28. Letterboxd Scavenger Hunt #97: April 2023
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#8: Watch a movie featuring real-life siblings
I myself was already in college during the 1987 premiere of the Millennial nostalgia honeypot Full House, and then already in my mid-twenties and dad age myself during the height of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen mania in the mid-'90s, so I have no childhood baggage to bring along with me…
I originally downloaded this as part of "Michael Haneke" week of the 2017 Film School Dropouts challenge, but didn't get around to watching it until last month. Against my better judgement, I keep watching Haneke films on a regular basis, in the hopes that I'll finally understand why so many otherwise intelligent people admire him so much (he's a regular winner on the festival circuit, for those who don't know, and is adored by the academic art-film crowd); yet after…
FILM SCHOOL DROPOUT: A 2017 year-long movie challenge
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Week 12: Orson Welles
Ah, genius youth -- is there any greater curse? After a charmed early career in which he could literally do no wrong, first in live theater (where among other accolades he produced the first-ever all-black Shakespeare production on Broadway), and then radio (where his infamously realistic modern updating of War of the Worlds caused a national panic), the 24-year-old Welles then hit…
