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December 28th, 2014: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Dec28 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Drama, Movie of the Day, The Original, Tragedy Tagged banditos, bandits, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, children of famous people, double cross, fate, gold, greed, Humphrey Bogart, Jack L. Warner, John Huston, lottery, luck, Mexico, mine, miners, old timer, prospectors, Tim Holt, train, train attack, train robbery, village, Walter Huston, Warner Brothers

December 22nd, 2014: The Day of the Locust (1975)

Dec22 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged "simple" people, annoying children, behind the scenes, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Billy Barty, Bo Hopkins, brothel, Burgess Meredith, California, child killer, cock fight, cuckold, Dennis Dugan, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Great Depression, hallucinations, Hollywood, insanity, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hillerman, Karen Black, Los Angeles, mob, Nathaneal West, Paramount Pictures, Pepe Serna, prostitutes, Richard Dysart, riot, travelling salesman, Vaudville, William Atherton, William Castle

December 10th, 2014: Billy Jack (1971)

Dec10 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Drama, Independent, Issue Film, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Sequel, Tragedy, Western Tagged "the role that made them famous", animal cruelty, Billy Jack, box office smash, coven, Delores Taylor, double cross, Drive-In, environmental message, Green Beret, half breed, Hapkido, hippies, Howard Hessman, Kenneth Tobey, low-budget, mustangs, one hit wonder, One Tin Soldier, private school, progressive school, pushed too far, racists, rape, rednecks, role-playing, runaway, shoe free ass kicking, stand-off, Tom Laughlin, veteran, Vietnam veterans

December 8th, 2014: Eastern Promises (2007)

Dec8 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster, Independent, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged Best Actor Nominee, David Cronenberg, immigrants, murder, naked wrestling, Naomi Watts, orphan, Russian gangsters, tattoos, Turkish bath, undercover, Viggo Mortensen

December 7th, 2014: High and Low — a.k.a. Tengoku to jigoku (1963)

Dec7 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Addicition, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Drama, Film Noir, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Stalker, Thriller, Tragedy Tagged Akira Kurosawa, class issues, detective, Ed McBain, heroin, industrialist, Japan, kidnapping, mistaken identity, noir, ransom, rock and roll, shoes, Sixties, Toshiro Mifune

December 3rd, 2014: Breathless (1960)

Dec3 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, Independent, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, New Wave, Romance, Spoof, The Original, Tragedy Tagged before they were famous, car thief, double cross, femme fatale, Francois Truffaut, hand held camera, homage, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Serberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, jump cuts, low-budget, motorcycle cop, murder, New Wave, newspaper, Paris, press conference

October 21st, 2014: Chihwaseon a.k.a. Painted Fire (2002)

Oct21 by bellabone

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Addicition, Arthouse, Biopic, Coming of Age, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, Tragedy Tagged alcoholism, art, Best Director (Cannes), class issues, Harvard, Im Kwon-taek, Jang Seung-up, Korea, nineteenth century, painter, Palme D'Or Nominee, peasant, prostitutes, Sackler Museum

August 8th, 2014: La Strada (1954)

Aug8 by Professor Mortis

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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

July 25th, 2014: Mekagojira no Gyakushu aka Terror of Mechagodzilla

Jul25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Dinosaurs, Drama, Event Film, Kaiju, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Tragedy, War with Aliens Tagged "I can't love you, "sound defeats the monster", Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, aliens from a dying world, Bad Dubbing, black hole, cuts in U.S. version, cyborg, daughter, dinosaurs, disgraced scientist, father, father-daughter relationship, femme fatale, Godzilla, Godzilla noir, gojira, Goro Mutsumi, Henry G. Saperstein, I'm a cyborg", Interpol, Ishiro Honda, Japan, JDF, Kenji Sahara, mad scientist, Mechagodzilla, prison, prison break, prisoner, scientists, silver space man jumpsuit, sonar, sonic weapon, submarine, suicide, superhero Godzilla, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

July 13, 2014: The Mission (1986)

Jul13 by iggyfh

The Mission (1986)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Fight Film, Homefront, Issue Film, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Tragedy, War Movies Tagged Brazil, Colonialism, Jeremy Irons, Jesuits, Liam Neeson, Missionaries, native americans, Robert DeNiro, Roland Joffe, slave trade, World Cup Week

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