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April 7th, 2013: Easter Parade (1948)

Apr7 by professormortis

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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 8th, 2013: The Honeymoon Killers

Mar8 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Black and White, Con, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged child death, con artist, controlling mother, cult, Doris Roberts, double cross, Drive-In, grindhouse, insanity, Leonard Kastle, low-budget, mother, mother-daugther relationship, New York City, nurse, pregnancy, Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco

January 16th, 2013: Escape from New York (1981)

Jan16 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Dark Future, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "but I get results", "New York", "You will self destruct in 24 hours", Adrienne Barbeau, Air Force One, airplane, arena, Avco Embassy Pictures, Bob Minor, bridge, Britain, Charles Cyphers, co-production, Donald Pleasence, double cross, Drive-In, Ernest Borgnine, futures past, George "Buck" Flower, glider, Harry Dean Stanton, helicopter, hostage, Isaac Hayes, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, John Diehl, Kurt Russell, land mines, low-budget, musical interlude, New York City, plane crash, President of the United States, prison, prison warden, prisoner, rescue mission, scientists, Tom Atkins, veteran, World War Three

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

Dec31 by professormortis

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

November 28th, 2012: Auntie Mame (1958)

Nov28 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a Play, Camp, Comedy, Coming of Age, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original Tagged Adolphe Green, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Betty Comden, Connecticut, Dub Taylor, Forrest Tucker, Gloria Holden, Henry Brandon, Morton DaCosta, New York City, Patrick Dennis, Patrick Knowles, Rosalind Russell

November 19th, 2012: Project Nim

Nov19 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Documentary, Movie of the Day Tagged animal testing, anthropologist, apes, BBC Films, chimpanzees, Columbia University, hippies, inappropriate relationship, James Marsh, linguist, marijuana, New York City, scientists, sign language

October 10th, 2012: Noises Off…

Oct10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Workplace Tagged Amblin Entertainment, behind the scenes, Broadway, Carol Burnett, children of famous people, Denholm Elliott, Frank Marshall, John Ritter, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Mark Linn-Baker, Miami, Michael Caine, New York City, Nicolette Sheridan, Peter Bogdanovich, theater, Touchstone Pictures

September 6th, 2012: It Came From Kuchar

Sep6 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Documentary, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day Tagged 8mm, brothers, California, film clips, film history, filmmaking, George Kuchar, homage, insanity, low-budget, Mike Kuchar, New York City, outsider artist, San Francisco, The Bronx, twins, underground films

August 30th, 2012: Death Wish (1974)

Aug30 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Crime, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Serial Killer, The Original, Thriller Tagged Al Lewis, before they were famous, Charles Bronson, Christopher Guest, conscientious objector, Denzel Washington, Dino De Laurentiis Company, Herbie Hancock, it's not over, Jeff Goldblum, Korean War vet, low-budget, medical corpsman, Michael Winner, muggers, murder, New York City, Olympia Dukakis, Paramount Pictures, Paul Dooley, rape, vigilantes, Vincent Gardenia

They Might Be Giants (1971)

Aug28 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a Play, Based on a Short Story(ies), Buddy Flick, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball Tagged "are they mad or...", Al Lewis, ambigious ending, Anthony Harvey, asylum, blackmail, Don Quixote, Eugene Roche, F. Murray Abraham, gambling debts, George C. Scott, insanity, Jack Gilford, James Goldman, James Tolkan, Joanne Woodward, John Barry, librarian, library, M. Emmet Walsh, New York City, Paul Newman, psychiatrists, Rue McClanahan, Sherlock Holmes, supermarket, telephone, telephone company

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