“You’re not just up against a criminal mind; we’re fighting an alien civilization, one at least a hundred — or maybe a thousand — years in advance of ours!”
Synopsis:
An alien (Robert Crewdson) places an ad in Bikini Girl magazine in order to lure British girls back to his planet. Meanwhile, scientists Jack Costain [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2006 by admin
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Synopsis:
In post-WWII Osaka, a young boy (Nobutaka Asahara) befriends the son (Minoru Sakurai) of a riverside prostitute (Mariko Kaga).
Genres:
Childhood
Class Relations
Coming-of-Age
Friendship
Japanese Films
Prostitutes
Review:
Kôhei Oguri’s little-seen debut film (currently unavailable to English-speaking audiences) remains one of the finest movies ever made about childhood friendship. I [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2006 by admin
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“It seems I’m filming my life in order to have a life to film…”
Synopsis:
A documentarian (Ross McElwee) aiming to chronicle the lingering effects of General Sherman’s march on the South instead finds himself filming the various women he gets involved with.
Genres:
Deep South
Documentary
Looking for Mr./Ms. Right
Road Trip
Review:
Given [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2006 by admin
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“The world will recognize you only by your performance.”
Synopsis:
Frederick Wiseman documents life in a Philadelphia high school, circa 1968.
Genres:
Documentary
High School
Review:
Frederick Wiseman remains one of America’s most provocative yet least seen documentarians. Like his contemporary, Emile de Antonio, Wiseman eschews voice overs, instead relying on judicious editing and extreme [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2006 by admin
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“I want to fly where no seagull has flown before. I want to know what there is to know about life!”
Synopsis:
An adventurous seagull is banished from his flock, but returns to dispense newfound philosophical wisdom.
Genres:
Folk Heroes
Literature Adaptations
Mentors
Misfits
Talking Animals
Review:
This live-action film version of [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2006 by admin
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“I asked if it was wrong for a girl to prove to a boy exactly how much she loved him…”
Synopsis:
When a high school teacher (William Shatner) allows his class to talk openly about sex, his job is jeopardized; but his well-meaning students refuse to let him to be punished for something they initiated…
Genres:
Collective [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by admin
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“You don’t want me – not really; you just want me to want you!”
Synopsis:
Cynical, controlling millionaire Smith Ohlrig (Robert Ryan) marries a poor model (Barbara Bel Geddes) to spite his psychoanalyst. When Leonora (Bel Geddes) realizes her marriage is a sham, she leaves to go work for a doctor (James Mason), but Ohlrig will stop [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by admin
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“You’ve gone too far this time, mum!”
Synopsis:
A vicious and controlling mother (Bette Davis) gathers her three grown sons and their mates to celebrate her wedding anniversary.
Genres:
Bette Davis
Black Comedy
Evil Mothers
Family Problems
Grown Children
Review:
60-year-old Bette Davis is in rare form here as the hideous matriarch of Bill MacIlwraith’s darkly [...]
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by admin
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“I know precisely what I’m doing: valuable research work, in a rather unusual form!”
Synopsis:
A doctor (Edward G. Robinson) interested in studying the physiology of criminals gets involved in a heist ring led by high-level fence Jo Keller (Claire Trevor).
Genres:
Character Studies
Comedy
Mad Doctors and Scientists
Thieves and Criminals
Review:
This unusual comedic [...]
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by admin
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“Lucy Harbin took an axe, gave her husband forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done, she gave his girlfriend forty-one!”
Synopsis:
Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) has spent twenty years in an insane asylum for murdering her husband (Lee Majors) and his girlfriend (Patricia Crest) in a fit of jealous rage. When she returns home, her estranged [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2006 by admin
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