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From Here to Eternity 1953
Today being December 7th, PEARL HARBOR Remembrance Day, I had to revisit this righteous classic, as it ends in… well, you know.
Such a Classic Movie. Enjoyable from start to finish. Great characters and performances, fantastic writing and direction, staged and lit and shot and cut in that superb Old-Hollywood Studio-Style, just up there with the best ever.
Army base in Hawaii, 1941, not much for the soldiers to do but train, and wait. Not a bad place to be…
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Charley Varrick 1973
Hmm… A hard-bitten desert action/neo-noir of sorts, with Walter Matthau, playing against type I’d say, as a mirthless ruthless almost bloodless bank-robber in a seeming personal nosedive after he “accidentally” steals a buncha cash from the Mob. But he’s workin’ it. He’s doin’ his thing. This is a strange movie.
DON SIEGEL, great quick-make action-director who worked with Clint Eastwood a lot, made this in 1973 (fifty years ago now!) on the heels of a string of good flicks -…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988
Erotic. Neurotic. Quixotic. Epic. Sensual. Personal. National. Wandering. Wistful. Willful. Philosophical. Melancholy. Profound. Passionate. Intimate. Tragic. Romantic. Idealistic. Doomed. Enchanted. An Embarrassment of Adjectives.
This is one of my favorite flicks. A love-story lived in the the shadow of the closing Iron-Curtain.
There’s much I could say here about it, but I’m tired now. I hope this isn’t what our future looks like here.
I’ve probably written a lot of better things than this, but rarely have I ever seen…
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
End-of-the-world (dis)comfort-food. A quick hit of absurdity on the grandest scale.
I threw this in with the Spanish-dub ‘cause I’m tryna pick up the language, but I had to go back after and re-play all the war-room scenes following the appearance of Dr. Strangelove himself, because even though the Spanish voice-actor sounded OK, nobody can come close to How Hilariously Great Peter Sellers is in that role. (He rocks three different roles, of course, but as the Doctor, he’s just…
