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April 20th, 2013: Breaking Away (1979)

Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Coming of Age, Drama, Movie of the Day, Sports Tagged 20th Century Fox, Best Director Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, bicycle race, blue collar, classical music, college, cycling, Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Hart Bochner, Indiana, it's not over, Jackie Earle Hayley, John Ashton, Little 500, P.J. Soles, Paul Dooley, Peter Yates, quarries, serenade, snobs vs. slobs, teens, used car salesman

April 5th, 2013: Teenage Caveman (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Apocalypse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", "it was the future all along", adults playing teens, AIP, bad special effects, before they were famous, cave, cavemen, Drive-In, futures past, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, low-budget, Malibu Pictures, Robert Vaughn, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, teens, terrible bear suit, twist

March 28th, 2013: Pan’s Labyrinth

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1 Comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Coming of Age, Drama, Fantasy, Guerrillas, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, War Movies Tagged Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Picture Nominee, Best Makeup, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, co-production, Doug Jones, dream worlds, evil stepfather, fairy, fairy tale, faun, Guillermo Del Toro, labyrinth, Mexico, pregnancy, Spain, Spanish Civil War, stepfather, tyrannical officer

March 17th, 2013: The Secret of Kells

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Animation, Arthouse, Coming of Age, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged Belgium, Best Animated Feature Nominee, Brendan Gleeson, co-production, fairies, France, Ireland, Middle Ages, monastery, monks, teens, Vikings

February 11th, 2013: The Goonies (1985)

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6 Comments Posted in Comedy, Coming of Age, Event Film, Family, Adventure, Movie of the Day Tagged Warner Brothers, cash-in, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, teens, children of famous people, before they were famous, snobs vs. slobs, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, booby trap, Chris Columbus, inventors, Joe Pantoliano, Industrial Light and Magic, "Save the Old X", Robert Davi, Martha Plimpton, Richard Donner, Rube Goldberg devices, Sean Astin, treasure, buried treasure, treasure hunt, skeleton, treasure map, John Matuszak, Anne Ramsey, Lupe Ontiveros, Mary Ellen Trainor, pirates, pirate ship, wishing well

February 4th, 2013: The Social Network (2010)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Biopic, Coming of Age, Drama, Movie of the Day Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Atticus Ross, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Editing, Best Original Score, Best Picture Nominee, Brenda Song, David Fincher, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara, Trent Reznor

January 21st, 2013: Hugo (2011)

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Coming of Age, Computer Animation, Drama, Event Film, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film Tagged Asa Butterfield, automaton, Ben Kingsley, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Brian Selznick, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, clockwork, dad bomb, Emily Mortimer, father-son relationship, film history, fire, George Melies, godfather, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, magician, Martin Scorces, orphan, Paramount Pictures, Paris, Ray Winstone, Sacha Baron Cohen, train station, uncle

December 19th, 2012: The Karate Kid (1984)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Coming of Age, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day Tagged Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominee, Bill Conti, Elisabeth Shue, Joe Esposito, John G. Avildsen, Martin Kove, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, Ralph Macchio, Randee Heller, Robert Mark Kamen, William Zabka

December 3rd, 2012: Breathless (1960)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, Independent, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, New Wave, Romance, Spoof, The Original, Tragedy Tagged before they were famous, car thief, double cross, femme fatale, Francois Truffaut, hand held camera, homage, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Serberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, jump cuts, low-budget, motorcycle cop, murder, New Wave, newspaper, Paris, press conference

November 28th, 2012: Auntie Mame (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Comedy, Adaptation, Coming of Age, The Original, Based on a Play, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book, Camp, Holiday Tagged Patrick Knowles, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Connecticut, New York City, Dub Taylor, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Adolphe Green, Betty Comden, Forrest Tucker, Rosalind Russell, Henry Brandon, Gloria Holden, Patrick Dennis, Morton DaCosta

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