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May 17th, 2013: Easy Rider (1969)

2 Comments Posted in Arthouse, Buddy Flick, Drama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged ACLU, Bridget Fonda, brothel, cameos, Carrie Snodgress, cemetery, cocaine, commune, Dan Haggerty, Deep South, Dennis Hopper, drugs, farmers, hippies, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Laszlo Kovacs, lawyers, Los Angeles, LSD, Mardi Gras, Mexico, motorcycle, New Orleans, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector, prostitutes, rednecks, Terry Southern, Toni Basil

May 4th, 2013: Frost/Nixon (2008)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Play, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged behind the scenes, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Clint Howard, double cross, former child stars, Frank Langella, Hans Zimmer, Imagine Entertainment, interview, Kevin Bacon, less famous parents, less famous siblings, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Oscar bait, Patty McCormack, President of the United States, Rance Howard, Relativity Media, Richard Nixon, Ron Howard, Sam Rockwell, Studio Canal, Toby Jones, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films

April 29th, 2013: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

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Leave a comment Posted in Drama, Arthouse, "Foreign Film", Romance, Comedy, Movie of the Day Tagged arranged marriage, before they were famous, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Britain, Channel Four Films, class issues, Daniel Day-Lewis, immigrants, laundromat, mistress, Pakistanis, poverty, racism, racists, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Anne Field, Stephen Frears, Stephen Marcus, Working Title Films

April 20th, 2013: Breaking Away (1979)

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Leave a comment Posted in Drama, Comedy, Coming of Age, 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 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged World War Two, before they were famous, prison break, Best Film Editing Nominee, Charles Bronson, Nazis, Elmer Bernstein, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, James Garner, Steve McQueen, blind, pilots, Richard Attenborough, The Mirisch Corporation, John Sturges, prison, David McCallum, Nigel Stock, motorcycle, solitary, tunnel, claustrophobia

March 21st, 2013: Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

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2 Comments Posted in Action, So-Bad-It's-Good, Crime, Comedy, Black and White, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Independent, Road Trip, Camp, Hostage Situation, Adult, Softcore Tagged Drive-In, double cross, grindhouse, low-budget, dirty old man, Haji, car racing, Russ Meyers, treasure, Tura Santana, muscle man, go go dancers

March 10th, 2013: Grave of the Fireflies

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Animation, Anime, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged bombing, homefront, horrors of war, Japan, Studio Ghibli, World War Two

March 8th, 2013: The Honeymoon Killers

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Black and White, Con, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged Drive-In, con artist, insanity, double cross, grindhouse, low-budget, cult, New York City, Tony Lo Bianco, Shirley Stoler, Doris Roberts, nurse, mother, pregnancy, child death, controlling mother, mother-daugther relationship, Leonard Kastle

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