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Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

8 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, king, Mars, Queen, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

November 8th, 2012: Sahara (1943)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, War Movies Tagged "a picture of my gal", "never say die...oops", "what I'll do when the war is over", Africa, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Columbia Pictures, desert, double cross, Humphrey Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, last stand, Lloyd Bridges, Nazis, oasis, Rex Ingram Dan Duryea, Sahara, tank, World War Two

September 16th, 2012: Lion of the Desert (1981)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Campaign History, Epic, Event Film, Guerrillas, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Propaganda, War Movies Tagged Anthony Quinn, Colonialism, double cross, execution, Fascists, Guerrillas, Italy, Libya, Maurice Jarre, Moustapha Akkad, Mussolini, Oliver Reed, Raf Vallone, rip-off, Rod Steiger, United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)

May 1st, 2012: The Man with a Movie Camera aka Living Russia, or The Man with a Camera (1929)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Documentary, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Silent Tagged "a day in the life", industry, Soviet, Soviet Union, workers

February 10th, 2012: All Through the Night (1941)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Crime, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged Conrad Veidt, Edward Brophy, Frank McHugh, Hal B. Wallis, Humphrey Bogart, Jackie Gleason, Jane Darwell, Judith Anderson, Martin Koslack, Nazis, Peter Lorre, Phil Silvers, sabotage, Wallace Ford, Warner Brothers, William Demarest, William Hopper, World War Two

November 10th, 2011: Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Special Operations, War Movies Tagged alcoholic, Arlen Dean Snyder, armored vehicle, bad intelligence, before they were famous, Best Sound Nominee, Bo Svenson, Clint Eastwood, Eileen Heckart, ex-wife, Grenada, Marine Recon, Mario Van Peebles, Marsha Mason, military exercise, Moses Gunn, musicians, Peter Jason, Ramon Franco, The Malpaso Company, The Marines, Tom Villard

November 5th, 2011: V for Vendetta (2006)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Comic Book, Dark Future, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Superheroes Tagged Alan Moore, Andy Wachowski, Britain, DC Comics, disowned by its creator, Hugo Weaving, Joel Silver, John Hurt, Lana Wachowski, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Silver Pictures, Stephen Fry, Stephen Rhea, totalitarian society, Virtual Studios, Warner Brothers

September 11th, 2011: Invasion U.S.A. (1985)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Event Film, Guerrillas, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good, Special Operations, War Movies Tagged "I'm Done Killing", "They Wouldn't Let Me Do What Needed to Be Done", Aaron Norris, Alexander Zale, because its in the script nemesis, Billy Drago, black ops, boat people, Cannon, Christmas, Chuck Norris, Cold War, Cuba, Cubans, drug deal gone bad, drug dealers, hero rage, hostage situation, jingoism, Joseph Zito, less famous siblings, low-budget, maverick, Melissa Prophet, Menahem Golan, one man army, pushed too far, refugees, retired special ops, Richard Lynch, Soviet Union, spineless bureacrats, terrorists, U.S.A.!U.S.A.!, Yoram Globus

August 11th, 2011: Red Dawn (1985)

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5 Comments Posted in Guerrillas, Independent, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, So-Bad-It's-Good, War Movies Tagged Ben Johnson, brothers, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, concentration camp, Cubans, double cross, football team, Frank McRae, Guerrillas, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Grey, John Milius, Lane Smith, Lea Thompson, paratroopers, Patrick Swayze, Powers Boothe, Ron O'Neal, Roy Jenson, Sandinistas, Soviets, Spetnaz, United Artists, World War Three

June 27th, 2011: Battleship Ptoemkin

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Propaganda, War Movies Tagged Goskino, mutiny, revolution, Russia, Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet

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