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Why we get the movies we do

by Bill on December 8, 2009

Ignoring artistic merit for the moment, let’s look at movies strictly from the financial point of view. From what I can tell (and I’m no accountant), your best ROI (return on investment) is low budget. That seems to make intuitive sense and you have to wonder what thinking is behind the big budget movies. I [...]

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Catching up on a Monday

by Bill on September 29, 2008

I get busier as the week goes along with it peaking on Friday and Saturday, so I’ve fallen a bit behind in tracking the Top Ten films of 1968 over at Britannica Blog. Last Thursday it was Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses, a movie I can’t comment on having never seen it. Yes, I’ve been remiss. But [...]

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A swing and a miss

by Bill on September 23, 2008

I’m batting 0 for 2 now as far as the Top Movies of 1968 go, over on the Britannica Blog. Number 9 is up and it’s Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. While I have seen it, I recall it only vaguely because I think I’ve only seen it once and that was way back when [...]

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Movies seen (and not)

by Bill on September 22, 2008

It’s felicitous, and perhaps there’s something in the way the planets are aligned, that the top ten list Raymond Benson is presenting on Britannica Blog is focused on 1968 since I seem to be taken up with movies from the late sixties/early seventies these days. Today he gave us his number ten, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, [...]

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So, what are the top movies of 1968?

by Bill on September 19, 2008

Over at Britannica Blog, Raymond Benson is going to go through his picks for the top films of 1968, “… that tumultuous year.” My problem with making up such a list is I can’t remember what movies are from what years. If I were to make a list I’d inevitably forget some then, once remembered, [...]

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