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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

January 18th, 2013: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Jan18 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Play, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball Tagged alcoholic, Best Actor, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Cary Grant, class issues, comedic alcoholic, divorcee, ex-husband, ex-wife, Franz Waxman, George Cukor, interrupted wedding, James Stewart, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katharine Hepburn, lady reporter, Loew's, MGM, National Film Registry, photographer, publisher, reporter, wedding, wedding night

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

Dec31 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Buddy Flick, Assumed Identity, Holiday Tagged double cross, Paramount Pictures, it's not over, before they were famous, New York City, Dan Aykroyd, John Landis, train, Best Music Nominee, Christmas, Denholm Elliott, drugs, Elmer Bernstein, industrial espionage, Paul Gleason, evil businessman, Frank Oz, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Belushi, Giancarlo Esposito, gorilla suit, gorillas, class issues, homeless, butler, wise servant, frame up, Santa Claus, "Not Santa!", Ralph Bellamy, prostitutes, jail, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Christmas Party, "hooker with a heart of gold", Cinema Group, WASP, James Eckhouse, Bo Diddley, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Eddie Murphy, Don Ameche, Wall Street, bet, "prince and the pauper", stock broker, insider trading, white collar criminals, New Year's Eve Party

July 29th, 2012: The Devil-Ship Pirates

Jul29 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Homefront, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Pirate, Swashbuckler, War Movies Tagged Andrew Keir, blacksmith, Britain, Christopher Lee, class issues, collaborators, Hammer, homefront, Jimmy Sangster, low-budget, Michael Ripper, prisoner, Spanish Armada, Thames River

June 30th, 2012: Rushmore (1998)

Jun30 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Coming of Age, Indy, Movie of the Day Tagged alcoholic, Andrew Wilson, apprentice/mentor relationship, barber, before they were famous, Bill Murray, Brian Cox, children of famous people, class issues, Connie Nielsen, crush, Depression, father, father-son relationship, homage, industrialist, it's not over, Jason Schwartzman, Luke Wilson, Mark Mothersbaugh, mix-tape soundtrack, musical interlude, Olivia Williams, Owen Wilson, private school, Seymour Cassel, teacher student relationship, teacher's pet, teachers, teens, theater, Wes Anderson, writer

May 11th, 2012: The Leopard (1963)

May11 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged "Cast of Thousands", Alain Delon, aristocracy, ball, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claudia Cardinale, decline, France, Garibaldi, Italy, Luchino Visconti, noble, revolution, revolutionaries, Sicily, Terrence Hill, Titanus

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Mar26 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Disaster, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Silent, Slapstick Tagged boat, Buster Keaton, class issues, college boy, cyclone, father-daugther relationship, father-son relationship, jail, meet cute, overbearing father, prison break, river, shopping for clothes, steamboat, storm

December 7th, 2011: From Here to Eternity (1953)

Dec7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music Nominee, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, boxing, bugle player, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claude Akins, Columbia Pictures, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnerman, George Reeves, hard ass seargant, Jack Warden, James Jones, Montgomery Clift, Pearl Harbor, prostitutes, World War Two

September 20th, 2011: 12 Angry Men (1957)

Sep20 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a TV Show, Black and White, Courtroom, Drama, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Remake Tagged "One Righteous Man", Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, class issues, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, John Fiedler, jury, juvenile delinquent, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, patricide, racism, racists, Sidney Lumet, stabbing, switchblade, United Artists

August 26th, 2011: Seven Samurai (1954)

Aug26 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adventure, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Last Stand, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged Akira Kurosawa, bandits, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, class issues, drag, forbidden love, homage, Japan, master swordsman, old timer, orphan, peasants, Ronin, Samurai, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Toshiro Mifune

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