Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
The Game (1997) - Wealthy and emotionally remote San Francisco financier Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad (Sean Penn): a live-action game that consumes his life. So, it turns out I reviewed this movie before. I had no memory of that (which is probably not a good thing... Continue Reading →
Phantom of the Opera (1925) - The classic silent movie version, starring Lon Chaney as the disfigured genius behind the mirror at the Paris Opera who becomes obsessed with a young singer. It's easy to assume that movie making back in the early days of the art was much simpler, with a less compex visual... Continue Reading →
Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio (1991) - Ken Burns delves into the stories of the three men most central to the development of radio and eventually television - Lee de Forest, E.H. Armstrong and David Sarnoff. The growth of Radio into the first electronic, broadcast medium and its dominance of the American... Continue Reading →
HappyThankYouMorePlease (2010) - A group of 20-something friends struggle with the realities of actually having to grow up. Each of them has to find their way out of their old understanding of love into something new. Ten minutes into this movie I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like it. Thirty minutes in I... Continue Reading →
The Great Escape (1963) - A group of Allied soldiers with long records of trying to escape from German POW camps are transferred to a camp specifically designed to contain them. They begin to plan the largest prisoner escape of the war. Based on a true story. Welcome to another "spot the stars" movie. The... Continue Reading →
Ace in the Hole - (1951) - Chuck Tatem (Kirk Douglas) is a big time newspaper reporter who has managed to get fired in every big city in the country. He ends up working for a small paper in Albuquerque, New Mexico. On his way to cover a rattlesnake round up he stumbles on just... Continue Reading →
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - As young socialite Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) journeys back to England to be married to a man she doesn't really love, she makes friends with a kindly older woman, Mrs. Froy (Dame May Whitty), on the train. Shortly the older woman disappears and all the other passengers deny they ever... Continue Reading →
1776 (1972) - America's Founding Fathers and the history around the creation of the Declaration of Independence are turned into a musical. The personalities and conflicts that eventually led to one of the greatest documents in American history come together in song and comedy. This is an interesting movie in many ways. Most of the... Continue Reading →
Sophie's Choice (1982) - After World War II a young writer (Peter MacNichol) from the south arrives in New York City to follow his dream. There he meets a concentration camp survivor named Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her mercurial lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline). Stingo (MacNichol) narrates the story of the three of them. Nathan's obsession... Continue Reading →
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) - Two drag queens and a transsexual travel to the center of Australia for the chance to perform. Along the way they learn a lot about themselves and the people around them. This is regarded as a pivotal moment in the portrayal of LGBT people in... Continue Reading →
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