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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Mean Streets and Sidewalks, Preminger's Bleak Vision
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In Otto Preminger's 1950 hard boiled crime drama, "Where The Sidewalk Ends" (Script by Ben Hecht), Dana Andrews, as Det. Mark ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
HBO's mini series based on James M. Caine novel gets high praise
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Salon magazine says: "Mildred Pierce" is a quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece. Kate Winslet's expert performance anchors a tough...
Monday, March 14, 2011
Aussie Gangster Film Side-Steps Cliches
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Few crime dramas are as compelling as last year"s "Animal Kingdom." David Michôd wrote and directed the film about a Melbourn...
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Today's quote
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"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." J...
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Roger Ebert Looks Back at Cinema Classic
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BY ROGER EBERT John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" is a left-wing parable, directed by a right-wing American director, about ho...
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thought For Today
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"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
How can a film's screenplay take shape in 10 seconds?
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"If I decide to embark on a project, it is because the whole movie took place before my eyes in 10 seconds. Then I spent a year and a h...
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