The Professor’s Fall Journal: Part 2: September

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September 19th: The Baroness and I watched Crooked House, my obligatory Agatha Christie story for this season (I wasn’t able to find the 1974 Ten Little Indians and somehow this ended up on my list instead).  I’d need spoiler space to get into which 1950s horror sub-genre foundational work this prefigures*, but in any case, Crooked House boasts a great cast and seems to have been inexplicably panned. If you like high production value adaptations of Christie’s work with actors like Terence Stamp, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, and Christina Hendricks, this is a lot of fun. (Yeah, technically this should’ve been part of the last post…somehow it got left out! In my house we blame Phoebe, the ghost from BVH’s childhood home-Editor)

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December 16th, 2014: Castle Keep

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November 11th, 2014: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

October 8th, 2014: Aliens (1986)

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October 3rd, 2014: Chôjikû Yôsai Macross: Ai Oboeteimasuka aka SDF-1 Macross: Do You Remember Love? aka Macross: The Movie aka Macross in Clash of the Bionoids

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September 27, 2014: The Sound of Music (1965)

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September 5th, 2014: King Rat

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August 26th, 2014: Seven Samurai (1954)

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August 15th, 2014: Tropic Thunder (2008)

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