Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant’s adaptation of a youth novel by Blake Nelson, is at its heart a mystery. A teenaged skater, played by amateur Gabe Nevins, drifts towards the toughest skating park in town, Paranoid Park. He meets an […]
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The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war. The lack of a clear-cut victory inspired filmmakers to try to make sense of fighting another country’s civil war and risking American lives for an unpopular cause. In many ways the […]
Continue reading »An Industry Losing its Viability?
Doomsaying has become popular sport in America, from the extreme of that crazy California radio prophet being wrong about the end of the world not just once, but twice in 2011, to technology pundits predicting that DVDs will disappear within […]
Continue reading »Hugo’s Worthless Poster
Below, I’ve described how much I like the poster for One for the Money, and how much it makes me want to see the film. The opposite is true for the advance poster for Hugo. I’m not sure I can […]
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I have to admit that Martin Scorsese — considered by many to be one of the greatest directors of the past quarter-century — has never been one of my personal favorites. I generally like his movies, but I rarely love […]
Continue reading »Why Korea?
I was led to the subject of Korean War movies by Lee Marvin. As I was finishing Lee Marvin: His Films and Career and looking around for a second project to tackle, I kept returning to the fact that Marvin had […]
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Otto Preminger’s adaptation of Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is loaded with Hollywood stars. The film involves a nominee for secretary of state (Henry Fonda) who runs into opposition from a southern senator (Charles Laughton in his final […]
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There are ninety-one English-language movies made and released before 2000 in my Korean War Filmography, all of which dramatize some aspect of the Korean War. Some are fictional representations of the war; others are historically authentic. Some take place solely […]
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With the silent French production The Artist vying for Oscar attention this year (which I have yet to see at this writing), this seems a good time to broach the subject of silent films and modern viewing habits. My questions are […]
Continue reading »Question Marks?
All of my review titles are structured as Title, Year, Star Rating. They look perfectly fine when I create them. However, one person has told me that on his computer, my star ratings are question marks. Does anybody else see […]
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