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An innocent abroad in a less-than-innocent world is a standard story template. It has been used over and over. Decades ago I read Robert Heinlein’s A Stranger in a Strange Land. That was one take on the innocent story. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, with his main character of Billy Pilgrim, was another. It shows up in [...]
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You may have heard of a guy named Christopher Nolan. He’s directed a few movies such as Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and the currently in release, Inception. He made his first really big splash with a movie called Memento (2000). Insomnia is a relatively lesser known movie he made. It’s the one he made [...]
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Directed by the Joel and Ethan Coen I watched the Collector’s Edition version of the The Big Lebowski and while I still feel the same way about the film, I have to say the intro they add to this DVD edition is incredibly funny. Especially if you waste a lot of time in the world [...]
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Depending on your age, you may remember seeing Glenn Ford in movies and on television. I’m thinking roughly of the 1970′s, perhaps late 60′s. He usually had an avuncular quality. He was a nice, friendly older man. He often played fatherly types. For example, in 1978′s Superman: The Movie he played kindly Pa Kent. So [...]
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Directed by Charles Laughton I think it’s fair to say 1955′s The Night of the Hunter is one of the oddest films to ever come out of Hollywood. According to many, it’s also one of the greatest. This may be true; I’m not sure. But it’s definitely worth seeing a time or two to decide for [...]
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On the right, you’ll see a see an image/banner for the Film Preservation Blogathon, organized by Self Styled Siren and Ferdy on Films with the goal of creating greater awareness for the need (and urgency) of movie preservation and to raise funds for the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). You can learn more about it [...]
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It occurs to me that with a number of current movies, and I’m particularly thinking of action movies and romantic comedies (odd combination), there is often a dialogue problem. The problem is more or less that it is absent. I was thinking about this because I just wrote up reviews of two older movies, both [...]
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I’ve just started reading Marc Eliot’s book, Jimmy Stewart: A Biography. Having just begun, I can’t say anything about it’s merits, though I can say I read Eliot’s book from a few years ago, Cary Grant: A Biography and enjoyed it. I’m not sure why, but I like reading biographies of Hollywood’s luminaries of the [...]
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The Autobiography of Errol Flynn (1959) by Errol Flynn I just finished reading, and thoroughly enjoyed, My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn, originally published somewhere around 1959, available now through Cooper Square Press (part of Taylor Trade Publishing group). Heavens, what a helluva good read. Is anything he says true? Well, maybe. [...]
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This is not an injunction to only watch new movies. It’s a reference to the old Heraclitus thing about the same man never being able to enter the same river twice: the river has changed and so has the man. So it is with movies. You can watch the same movie but you won’t see [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media and movie enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick (Canada). My other blog is Writelife.
