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

Apr29 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Comedy, Drama, Movie of the Day, Romance 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

March 28th, 2013: Pan’s Labyrinth

Mar28 by professormortis

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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

January 12th, 2013: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Jan12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Space Travel, Speculative Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged A.I., Arthur C. Clarke, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, evil computer, futures past, Keir Dullea, MGM, Stanley Kubrick, The Moon

December 26th, 2012: Kiss of Death (1947)

Dec26 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged 20th Century Fox, baby sitters, before they were famous, Ben Hecht, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, cops, double cross, ex-con, Henry Hathaway, jewel thieves, Karl Malden, murder, orphanage, prison, Richard Widmark, suicide, Victor Mature

July 14th, 2012: Wild Strawberries (1957)

Jul14 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged Best Original Screenplay Nominee, daughter-in-law, doctor, dream sequence, father, father-in-law, father-son relationship, flashback, hitchhiking, nightmares, overbearing father, Svensk Filmindustri, Sweden

June 8th, 2012: Brazil (1985)

Jun8 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Dark Future, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Sci-Fi Tagged Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Bob Hoskins, Britain, bureaucrats, dream sequence, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, it's not over, Jim Broadbent, Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Kim Greist, Michael Kamen, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughn, plastic surgery, Robert De Niro, studio interference, terrorists, Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, torture, twist

May 30th 2012: Notorious (1946)

May30 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Drama, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged alcoholic, Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hecht, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Brazil, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Clifford Odets, double cross, Ingrid Bergman, Miami, National Film Registry, Nazis, Rio De Janerio, RKO, uranium

March 11th, 2012: White Heat (1949)

Mar11 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Heist, Movie of the Day, Prison Tagged bank robbers, bank robbery, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, controlling mother, double cross, Edmond O'Brien, fire, James Cagney, Max Steiner, mother-son relationship, prison, prison break, Raoul Walsh, undercover, Virginia Mayo, Warner Brothers

November 18th, 2011: Blow-up (1966)

Nov18 by professormortis

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3 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, The Original, Thriller Tagged Best Director Nominee, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Britain, David Hemmings, Herbie Hancock, Italy, Jane Birkin, John Castle, Michelangelo Antonioni, mimes, models, murder, musical interlude, photographer, Sarah Miles, The Yardbirds, twist, Vanessa Redgrave

August 8th, 2011: La Strada (1954)

Aug8 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Neo-Realism, Road Trip, Tragedy Tagged "simple" people, acrobats, Anthony Quinn, Best Foreign Language Picture, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Carlo Ponti, circus, clowns, Dino De Laurentiis, Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, homage, Italy, location shooting, love triangle, murder, Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, poverty, Richard Basehart, strongman

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