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Yes, you've probably heard of this thing: "the worst piece of television ever made," disowned by George Lucas himself, an embarrassment only aired once. The Star Wars Holiday Special is universally hated by all... unless you actually alive as a kid in 1978- an innocent, true-blue fan of the Force, who only a year or … Continue reading The Star Wars Holiday Special
Right now, our culture is so concentrated on the idea of challenging and expanding previous concepts of gender in order to make it more inclusive for those on the margins, that it's hard to imagine a movie called The Man Who Loved Women having much relevance today. And yet, that's why this movie is so … Continue reading The Man Who Loved Women
Americans have A Christmas Story to enjoy every Holiday season- a bland and milquetoast Hallmark-quality movie if there ever was one- but for Europeans (at least Eastern Europeans) that tradition falls squarely on the shoulders of Tři oříšky pro Popelku, a 1973 Czech classic that's mostly not about Christmas, actually- but Cinderella. But this is … Continue reading Tři oříšky pro Popelku (Three Wishes for Cinderella)
It's been a long time since Martin Scorsese has made anything worth watching, but back in the day, he couldn't make anything you could afford to miss. Starting with Mean Streets, Scorsese was a man with a mission, churning out powerful cinema that fused artsy new wave and New York grit: Alice Doesn't Live Here … Continue reading New York, New York
Debussy, Dvorak, Ravel, Sibelius, Stravinsky, and Vivaldi all get to see their masterpieces turned into bawdy, earthy satire in Allegro Non Troppo, Brono Bozzetto's very Italian sendup of Fantasia. That pretty much says it all; the great Maurizio Nichetti plays "the Animator" to a pretentious Conductor, a hack Producer and an orchestra full of Old … Continue reading Allegro Non Troppo
Film director Monte Hellman has now passed on to the great beyond, but if you are one of the growing number of people without a dvd player, there's no way for you to enjoy his greatest achievement, Two Lane Blacktop, which only exists as a Criterion Collection DVD. Until now. Two Lane Blacktop is quintessential … Continue reading Two Lane Blacktop
Time keeps ticking away, and popular culture slowly sheds off its excess fat, choosing to remember only a small sample of culture's output in any given year. The digital world allows us to keep everything alive, but then you have the problem of too much stuff and not enough people to sort through it all. … Continue reading Jenny
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