20 movies, 20 days – the list

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Read more →

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20 Movies: The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Read more →

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20 Movies: Topper (1937)

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Read more →

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20 Movies: Kagemusha (1980)

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Read more →

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20 Movies: His Girl Friday (1940)

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Read more →

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20 Movies: Ben-Hur (1959)

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Read more →

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20 Movies: Destry Rides Again (1939)

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Read more →

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