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May 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)

Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film Tagged Best Picture Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Film Editing, Disney, before they were famous, annoying children, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Walt Disney, Jane Darwell, Elsa Lanchester, Best Actress, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Alan Napier, David Tomlinson, live action combined with animation, feminist, "England", Arthur Malet, bank, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, comedic working class, Dick Van Dyke, Ed Wynn, Marnie Nixon, terrible accent, chimney sweep, nanny, Best Adapted Score Nominee, suffragettes, banker, Julie Andrews, Glynis Johns

April 14th, 2013: The Music Man (1962)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Musical, Comedy, Con, Event Film, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, The Original Tagged before they were famous, Best Adapted Score, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Buddy Hackett, con artist, Hank Worden, Hermione Gingold, librarian, library, marching band, Meredith Wilson, parade, pool, pool hall, Rance Howard, Robert Preston, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, small town, train, turn of the century, Warner Brothers

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 22nd, 2013: Rabbit Seasoning (1952)

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Comedy, Family, Movie of the Day, Short, Slapstick Tagged Carl W. Stalling, Chuck Jones, cross dressing, double cross, hunters, Looney Tunes, Mel Blanc, Warner Brothers

February 11th, 2013: The Goonies (1985)

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

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 25th, 2012: Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Comedy, Fairy Tale, Family, Fantasy, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Musical, Slapstick Tagged boogeyman, fairy tale, Hal Roach, Hal Roach Studios, Henry Brandon, MGM, Mickey Mouse, monkey, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, toy soldiers, toys, toys as weapons, Zepplin

December 12th, 2012: Labyrinth (1986)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Puppetry Tagged Anthony Asbury, Brian Henson, Christopher Malcolm, David Bowie, David Goelz, Dennis Lee, Frank Oz, George Lucas, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, Karen Prell, Kevin Clash, Ron Mueck, Shari Weiser, Shelley Thompson, Steve Whitmire, Terry Jones, Toby Froud, Trevor Jones

October 29th, 2012: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Based on a TV Show, Comedy, Family, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Werewolves Tagged Best Animated Film

October 28th, 2012: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Family, Ghost, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Musical, Remake, Short Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", Bing Crosby, Disney, farmer, farmers, ghost story, manipulative woman, RKO, teachers, Walt Disney, Washington Irving

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