Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
High and Low (1963) - A business executive preparing to takeover his company, must decide between his ambitions and the life of an employee's child.Directed by Akira Kurosawa Starring Toshiro Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya NakadaiWhy I Liked It: When the stars (story, director, star) align, greatness happens.Kingo Gondo (Mifune) has worked at the National Shoe... Continue Reading →
The Talk of the Town (1942) - A escapee from the local jail needs the help of his boyhood crush, and a legal scholar to avoid being convicted for a crime he didn't do.Directed by George Stevens Starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald ColmanWhy I Liked It - Three wonderful actors are almost letter perfect... Continue Reading →
Ready Player One – (2018) In a dystopian future, “real life” is inside a virtual reality world. Solve the problems of that world and the greatest prize of all, control of that reality, is yours. A young man and some friends team up to take a shot at that prize.Directed by Steven Spielberg ... Continue Reading →
Fallen Angel (1945) - A down on his luck con man arrives in a small town on the California coast. Splitting his time between a huckster who claims he can speak with the dead and two local beauties pushes him into tighter corners than he expected. One of them ends up dead, and he looks... Continue Reading →
Metropolis (1927) - The silent movie classic about a dystopian future society. The workers and the wealthy live in two different worlds. Above, life is a bacchanal, while below the workers toil at mindless jobs and live in featureless hives.Directed by Fritz Lang ... Continue Reading →
Annihilation (2018) – The laws of nature are being distorted in a strange, growing zone on Earth created by an alien presence. After repeated failures to explore it, they sent in a new team to understand “The Shimmer” and determine what happened to the previous teams. Directed by Alex Garland ... Continue Reading →
Scarlet Street (1945) - Christopher Cross is a middle aged bank clerk, trapped in an unhappy marriage. One night he rescues, and falls for a beautiful young woman. It turns out, she didn't need or want to be rescued, but convinced that he has money she plots with her grifter boyfriend to clean him out. ... Continue Reading →
The Last Train From Gun Hill (1959) – U.S. Marshall Matt Morgan faces the difficult task of bringing the son of an old friend in for rape and murder. The victim was Morgan’s Native American wife, and his friend is now a powerful and ruthless cattle baron. Directed by John Sturges Starring Kirk Douglas,... Continue Reading →
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) – A documentary look at the legacy of Pittsburgh legend and children’s TV icon, Fred Rogers.Why I Like It: Seriously? Fred Rogers.Yes, I have a built in bias in favor of Mr. Rogers. He’s from Pittsburgh. He is beloved there. There’s a statue of him that watches over downtown... Continue Reading →
Summer With Monika (1953) - Two teenagers run away for an idyllic summer of love and adventure. But a life of freedom isn’t as carefree as they thought. When the summer ends, there is the reality of life waiting for them.Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring – Harriet Andersson, Lars EkborgWhy I Liked It – Romeo... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 