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May 24th, 2012: Brigadoon (1954)

Leave a comment Posted in Romance, Fantasy, The Original, Movie of the Day, Musical Tagged MGM, alcoholic, New York City, warnings from townsfolk, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Scotland, cursed town, curse, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Gene Kelly, Arthur Freed, miracle, village, love at first sight, "love breaks the spell", Vincente Minnelli, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson, Elaine Stewart, deus ex machina

April 7th, 2012: Easter Parade (1948)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Event Film, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, May-September, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged "There's No Business Like Show Business", Albert Hackett, Ann Miller, Arthur Freed, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Broadway, dance, dancers, Frances Goodrich, Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, Jules Munshin, Loew's, love triangle, make-over, MGM, New York City, Peter Lawford, pygmalion, shopping for clothes, Ziegfeld Follies

March 26th, 2012: Brief Encounter (1945)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged affair, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Britain, comedic working class, David Lean, doctor, forbidden love, J. Rank Organization, Noel Coward, The, train, train station, Trevor Howard

March 21st, 2012: So I Married an Axe Murderer

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Cops, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Serial Killer, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged Alan Arkin, Alcatraz, Amanda Plummer, Anthony LaPaglia, axe murders, bad poetry, California, cameos, Charles Grodin, coffee shop, Debi Mazar, interrupted wedding, Michael Richards, Mike Hagerty, Mike Myers, Nancy Myers, Phil Hartman, poet, San Francisco, Scots, Steven Wright, tabloids, Tri-Star, wedding, wedding night, World Poetry Day

March 17th, 2012: The Quiet Man (1952)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Drama, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged alcoholic, Argosy Pictures, Barry Fitzgerald, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, boxing, brawl, brothers, code of honor, Frank S. Nugent, Ireland, John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Merian C. Cooper, Republic Pictures, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond

March 1st, 2012: Bijo to Ekitainingen aka The H-Man (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Blobs, Cops, Crime, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi Tagged "kill it with fire", Akihiko Hirata, blobs, dancers, drug deal gone bad, drug dealers, drugs, Eiji Tsuburaya, fishermen, fishing boat, flamethrowers, ghost ship, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lounge act, Masaru Sato, mobsters, moll, musical interlude, night club, police procedural, radiation, radiation mutation, rip-off, scientists, sewers, Takeshi Kimura, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yumi Shirakawa

February 29th, 2012: Gone With The Wind (1939)

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, War Movies Tagged Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Picture, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Best Visual Effects, Butterfly McQueen, Clark Gable, David O. Selznick, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard, Max Steiner, Olivia de Havilland, Sidney Howard, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh

February 25th, 2012: The Crying Game (1992)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Drama, Hostage Situation, Romance, Thriller Tagged Best Screenplay, Britain, Channel Four Films, Forest Whitaker, Guerrillas, hostage, IRA, Jaye Davidson, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, Neil Jordan, Stephen Rhea, twist

February 22nd, 2012: What’s Opera Doc?

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Folk Tale, Based on an Opera, Comedy, Epic, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Screwball, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Arthur Q. Bryan, Bugs Bunny, Chuck Jones, Elmer Fudd, lightning, Mel Blanc, Merrie Melodies, National Film Registry, opera, Richard Wagner, Warner Brothers

February 18th, 2012: Grease (1978)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Coming of Age, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, The Original Tagged 1950s, adults playing teens, coach, Didi Conn, drag race, Edd Byrnes, Eddie Deezen, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, greasers, high school, Jeff Conaway, Joan Blondell, John Travolta, juvenile delinquent, Lorenzo Lamas, Los Angeles, Los Angeles sewers, Michael Biehn, nostalgia, Oliva Newton-John, Paramount Pictures, Robert Stigwood Organization, Sha-Na-Na, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, teens, Wendie Jo Sperber

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