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Category Archives: Tragedy

February 27th, 2013: The Wind (1928)

Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Silent, Tragedy, Women's Picture Tagged ex-pat director, Frances Marion, insanity, jealousy, Lillian Gish, location shooting, marriage of convenience, MGM, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, prarie, studio interference, Victor Sjostrom

Up Tight!

Jan5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Crime, Drama, Full Reviews, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Reviews, Tragedy Tagged alcoholic, betrayal, Booker T and the MGs, Civil Rights, Cleveland, Dick Anthony Williams, Frank Silvera, housing project, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Juanita Moore, Jules Dassin, Julian Mayfield, Martin Luther King assassination, Max Julien, militants, paramilitary group, prostitutes, racist cops, racists, Raymond St. Jacques, revolution, revolutionaries, Robert DoQui, Ruby Dee, stilted dialogue, Time is Tight

December 22nd, 2012: The Day of the Locust (1975)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged "simple" people, annoying children, behind the scenes, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Billy Barty, Bo Hopkins, brothel, Burgess Meredith, California, child killer, cock fight, cuckold, Dennis Dugan, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Great Depression, hallucinations, Hollywood, insanity, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hillerman, Karen Black, Los Angeles, mob, Nathaneal West, Paramount Pictures, Pepe Serna, prostitutes, Richard Dysart, riot, travelling salesman, Vaudville, William Atherton, William Castle

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

September 19th, 2012: Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

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Leave a comment Posted in Romance, Comedy, Spoof, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy, Black Comedy, Music, Movie of the Day, Independent, Satire, Tragedy, Stalker Tagged Drive-In, homage, 20th Century Fox, insanity, double cross, before they were famous, Paul Williams, Best Music Nominee, deal with the devil, disfigured face, Gerrit Graham, musicians, William Finley, music industry, George Memmoli, Rod Serling, Brian De Palma, Jessica Harper

May 6th, 2012: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Bernard Hermann, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Booth Tarkington, Joseph Cotton, Mercury Productions, Orson Welles, RKO, Robert Wise, studio interference, Tim Holt

April 26th, 2012: Titus (1999)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Play, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Political Thriller, Revenge, Tragedy Tagged Alan Cumming, Angus Macfadyen, Anthony Hopkins, Best Costume Design Nominee, Britain, cannibalism, Colm Feore, double cross, Goths, Harry Lennix, insanity, Italy, Jessica Lange, Julie Taymor, Queen, rape, Rome, William Shakespeare

April 15th, 2012: Titanic (1997)

Apr15 by David Cole

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Disaster, Drama, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart, James Cameron, James Horner, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio

April 9th, 2012: The Attic (1980)

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1 Comment Posted in Black Comedy, Drama, Horror, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller, Tragedy, Women's Picture Tagged abusive father, Atlantic Releasing Corporation, attic, Carrie Snodgrass, chimpanzees, disappearance, double cross, fantasy sequence, father-daugther relationship, fiance, fire, Frances Bay, Gary Graver, George Edwards, home movies, it's not over, librarian, library, low-budget, movie theater, murder, overbearing father, paralysis, pyromaniac, Ray Milland, sailors, secret, twist, wheelchair

February 1st, 2012: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Black Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Film Noir, Gothic Horror, Movie of the Day, Satire, The Original, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged actress, Anna Q. Nilsson, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music, Best Picture Nominee, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Billy Wilder, Buster Keaton, California, cameos, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Brackett, chimpanzees, Erich Von Stroheim, ex-husband, Franz Waxman, funeral, Gloria Swanson, H. B. Warner, has beens, Hedda Hopper, Hollywood, homage, insanity, Jack Webb, Los Angeles, Nancy Olsen, narration, National Film Registry, older woman, Paramount Pictures, Ray Evans, repo men, screenwriter, silent Hollywood, swimming pool, twist, washed up actress, William Holden

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