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August 26th, 2014: Seven Samurai (1954)

Aug26 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments 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

March 25th, 2014: Fido (2006)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Indy, Movie of the Day, Romance, Satire, Spoof, Zombies Tagged 1950s, Billy Connolly, Canada, Carrie-Anne Moss, creepy neighbors, Dylan Baker, evil businessman, forbidden love, intelligent zombies, keeping up appearances, Lionsgate, neighbors, propaganda film, scientists, slave zombies, sleazy neighbor, sub, Telefilm Canada, Tim Blake Nelson, tool using zombies, zombie control collar

July 8th, 2012: The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, Swashbuckler Tagged "the prince and the pauper", Alfred Newman, before they were famous, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Score Nominee, Bullshitania, C. Aubrey Smith, children of famous people, David Niven, David O. Selznick, double cross, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., forbidden love, George Cukor, identical cousins, James Wong Howe, king, Mary Astor, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, Raymond Massey, reshoots, Ronald Coleman, secret identity, Selznick International Pictures, troubled production, W. S. Van Dyke

June 17th, 2012: Fallen Angels (1995)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Hit Man, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, Romance, Slapstick Tagged Charlie Yeung, dad bomb, double cross, father, father-son relationship, forbidden love, hit man, homage, Hong Kong, insanity, jilted lover, low-budget, mobsters, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wong Kar Wai

March 26th, 2012: Brief Encounter (1945)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged affair, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Britain, comedic working class, David Lean, doctor, forbidden love, J. Rank Organization, Noel Coward, The, train, train station, Trevor Howard

February 3rd, 2012: South Pacific (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a Play, Event Film, Guerrillas, May-September, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Special Operations, Suicide Mission, The Original, War Movies Tagged 20th Century Fox, before they were famous, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, Best Sound, black market, Doug McClure, forbidden love, island, James Michener, John Kerr, Joshua Logan, Mitzi Gaynor, operator, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pacific, plantation, racism, Ray Walston, Richard Rogers, Ron Ely, sailors, Tom Laughlin, U.S. Navy, World War Two

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