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Amelie, 2001
The plot of Amelie basically goes like this: Girl sees boy, girl likes boy, girl acts wacky, girl meets boy. This is the plot of roughly a bazillion movies, almost of which I hate. What makes Amelie stand out, what makes All great movies stand out, is how they go about their business.
Amelie stars [...]
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The Princess Bride, by William Goldman (1973)
The Princess Bride, Directed by Rob Reiner (1987)
Generally, when I read books that movies are based on, it’s with regret. Rarely, almost never, does the movie compete at all. Books simply have more room for description, imagination… Movies are restricted by what you can actually see.
(Aside: one exception where [...]
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Star Wars, 1977
Intellectually, I know that The Empire Strikes Back was actually the best of the 6 Star Wars movies. Fortunately, my love of Star Wars has very little to do with my brain, and everything to do with my brain, my ears, and my memory. From the first moment the scrolling story comes across [...]
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Roy Schneider died yesterday. He hadn’t really done any movies of note recently, but in the 70’s, he starred in a slew of great movies, starting of course with Jaws, but he was nominated for Oscars for his roles in two other movies, All that Jazz (1979) and The French Connection (1971). (I’ve never seen [...]
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I’m going to go ahead and guess that many of the movies on my great movies list wouldn’t be on anyone elses. That’s fine. For some of these movies, the context in which I saw them pretty has a lot to do with why I think they’re great. Knowing this, of course, won’t stop me [...]
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In a (most likely vain) effort to find things to write about, I was thinking that I would write about my top ten movies, books, and maybe songs. These won’t be the movies or books that I think necessarily have the most”artistic” value, although they might have plenty of artistic value. Nope, these will just [...]
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