by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Chinatown (1974) Fighting Caravans (1931) Goodbye, My Lady (1956) Hamlet (1948) RoboCop (1987) I chose Fighting Caravans for a couple of reasons. It is […]
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Blog reviews of classic movies
Lili (1953) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
We move from Italy to France with our third selection of the year, the musical comedy-drama Lili (1953). It’s an MGM musical, filmed at the California studio, but it certainly seems like France. Parisian-influenced films were certainly popular at the time, […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: The Best Man (1964) Lili (1953) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Running on Empty (1988) Union Station (1950) I chose Lili because it […]
Continue reading »Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) ☆ ☆ ☆
Barbara finally not only chose a foreign language film but chose the first film in this feature that I had not previously seen. So both of our reviews are based on seeing this movie for the first time. Investigation of […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) The Killing Fields (1984) Mister Roberts (1955) State of the Union […]
Continue reading »Wuthering Heights (1939) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our first potential classic of 2015 is another one of 1939’s Best Picture nominees: William Wyler’s romantic melodrama (produced by Samuel Goldwyn, who often claimed the movie as his own) Wuthering Heights, which was based upon the first sixteen chapters of […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Anchors Aweigh (1945) The Fortune Cookie (1966) Juggernaut (1974) The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Wuthering Heights (1939) I chose Wuthering Heights because I […]
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We began the year hoping to see and review a movie a week, with a week or two off for vacation or especially busy times. That notion devolved pretty quickly to every other week, and we struggled with that. Even […]
Continue reading »Gunga Din (1939) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Our seventeenth classic possibility for 2014 is 75 years old this year, the popular action-adventure Gunga Din (1939). It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures at a colossal cost of almost two million dollars but the money is evident on the […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Birdy (1984) Gunga Din (1939) Putney Swope (1969) A Touch of Class (1973) The Unknown (1927) I chose Gunga Din because it was the […]
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