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Tag: 1001

watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – TRIP TO THE MOON (UN VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE)

Have you ever wondered where your dreams come from?

Posted on November 29, 2010September 3, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Once upon a time it was possible to make a film vehicle for the biggest rock stars on the planet and have it also be a good movie.

Posted on June 22, 2010September 22, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – DOUBLE INDEMNITY

I might have just come across my favorite film in the 1001 series so far.

Posted on May 30, 2010September 22, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – THE GENERAL

Chaplin battled people and situations; Keaton battled objects. For my money, there was never a better battle than the fight he put up in THE GENERAL.

Posted on May 23, 2010September 22, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Come away, o human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand…

Posted on May 17, 2010November 8, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics: THE THIRD MAN

Damned near cinematic perfection by way of Carol Reed, Joseph Cotton, and Orson Welles.

Posted on March 31, 2010September 23, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – SE7EN

Apathy isn’t a deadly sin, but sometimes it feels like it should be.

Posted on February 28, 2010September 20, 2014
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – TOP GUN

Oh how the mighty do fall…

Posted on February 18, 2010September 23, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT

You’ll never look at a ping pong ball the same way again.

Posted on February 4, 2010September 23, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

At the risk of sounding stuck up, I’ve always maintained that I could spend several months in a small town, but couldn’t ever live in one permanently.

Posted on January 27, 2010December 28, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – MULHOLLAND DRIVE

The fact that this film is beginning to make sense to me might be a sign that I’ve watched it too many times.

Posted on January 26, 2010September 23, 2012
watchin' & writin'

Back to Basics – MAGNOLIA

Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail

Posted on December 26, 2009September 18, 2012

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