Safety Last! (1923)

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Annie Hall (1977) opens with Woody Allen imparting perhaps his most pithy joke about two elderly women in the Catskills. One woman comments on the poor food quality, and the other mentions the small portions, which according to Allen perfectly sum up life. What follows is a rewatchable comedy about ...

Cate Blanchett

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The Guilty (1947) A low budget wonderful noir from Monogram Studios, with a well-earned surprise ending. Bonita Granville plays twins, one of whom is a femme fatale. Granville’s petulant persona from her past films morphs into an effective seductress, easily manipulating WWII vets Don Castle and Wal...

Ten Performances by Marcello Mastroianni in chronological order: 1. White Nights (1957) 2. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) 3. La Dolce Vita (1960) 4. La Notte (1961) 5. Divorce Italian Style (1961) 6. 8 1/2 (1963) 7. The Organizer (1963) 8. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) 9. Marriage Italian ...

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

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Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless.

With only a couple days to the Oscars, one of the Best Picture nominees for this year has just turned up on MGM+ (and maybe Amazon Prime too), so I hastened to take a look at it. POOR THINGS was on HULU and I made it almost all the way through and didn't hate it- it was actually a pretty clever sto...

A Woman of Paris (1923) This movie had a lackluster box-office, largely due to Charlie Chaplin directing but not starring. Frequent Chaplin collaborator Edna Purviance, plays a woman from the French provinces, who mistakenly believes she was jilted by her fiancé. She heads to Paris to start anew, wh...

Holiday

A list of 10 noteworthy films I saw for 2023:

1. Oppenheimer
2. Barbie
3. Asteroid City
4. Bottoms
5.The Holdovers
6. Maestro
7. You Hurt My Feelings
8. Fallen Leaves
9. The Zone of Interest
10. The Killers of the Flower Moon

Lew Ayres

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Lorna wrote: ↑February 26th, 2024, 3:02 pm Maybe his idea of good coffee was WATERY DECAF?

Yes, that French Roast brew must have been too strong for him.

Dinner at the Ritz (1937) Paris and the French Riviera serve as the backdrop for this very elegant whodunit, starring the effervescent Annabella, along with David Niven and Paul Lukas. The plot points involve bank fraud, diamonds, high stakes gambling, disguises and, indispensably, romance. Oh, and ...

A Tale of Springtime (1990)

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