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20 movies, 20 days – the list

by Bill on August 25, 2010

There was no rhyme or reason to my list of 20 movies. I chose them randomly from movies I’ve really liked. What I found interesting about doing this — a movie every day for twenty days (excluding weekends) — was how in doing it I found myself wanting to see them all again. Perhaps more [...]

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20 Movies: The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

by Bill on August 20, 2010

I love stories like this. By “this” I mean stories within stories within stories. It’s really quite an accomplishment to achieve something like this on film. But The Saragossa Manuscript manages it. I don’t recall when I first heard of this movie but it would have been about ten years ago, more or less. When [...]

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20 Movies: Topper (1937)

by Bill on August 19, 2010

This was a movie I knew absolutely nothing about when I picked it up. I watched it and found it was one of the funniest movies I had seen in ages. This surprised me because of its age. There are a lot of movies that amuse me but not many that actually make me laugh. [...]

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20 Movies: Kagemusha (1980)

by Bill on August 18, 2010

This is a review I wrote a few years ago when I first picked up the DVD of Kagemusha and saw it for the second time, some twenty years after first seeing it. I think I might write something quite different today. Somewhere on my computer I have a post about old black and white [...]

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20 Movies: His Girl Friday (1940)

by Bill on August 17, 2010

I’ve always liked Howard Hawks and this movie, His Girl Friday, is one of my favourites from his long list of films. Apart from being a famously funny movie, it’s known for the incredibly rapid fire dialogue between Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. His Girl Friday (1940) directed by Howard Hawks It occurs to me [...]

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20 Movies: Ben-Hur (1959)

by Bill on August 16, 2010

Let’s go big; really big. Before the world of CGI, big spectacular stuff had to be done the hard way. (No, I’m not saying CGI is easy.) It had to be done on sets, on location and with real people in the scenes. Watch Ben-Hur and try to imagine what was involved. Now try to [...]

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20 Movies: Destry Rides Again (1939)

by Bill on August 13, 2010

I love movies that surprise me. When I picked up this one a few years ago I really had no idea what to expect. I had never even heard of it. What a fabulous surprise it was! It doesn’t pretend to be anything more than what it is: an entertaining western and comedy. But it [...]

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