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max sees movies: #84: Easy Rider
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. March 3, 2010. There are four films made in 1969 on the AFI's Top 100. Good year! 1976 and 1982 also share this honor.) It's certainly no accident that Hollywood, taking cues from the French New Wave. Was in a new age. At the end of a decade like the 60s. Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider. I started it by myself but Kecia. Came home about halfway through, right when Jack Nicholson first appears. A handful of almonds (beach body! A dead goat in the street!
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max sees movies: #38: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. March 15, 2011. 38: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. John Huston's 1948 adventure The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Is not, thankfully, a Western, as I expected. Yes, it takes place in a time and region adjacent to the Old West (south of the border in 1925), but the story, while chronicling revenge, paranoia and personal destruction, doesn't lump this into that dreaded category. I'm hard on Westerns, but they've given me little but grief! Yes, as it ...
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max sees movies: #27: High Noon
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. July 3, 2011. O to be torn ‘twixt love and duty! S’posin’ I lose my fair-haired beauty! Look at that big hand move along. Nearin’ high noon.". The fact that Fred Zinnemann's 1952 film High Noon. Is actually a little different, even a little anti-Western. Maybe that's why I liked it better than the others. Had offered to watch this one with me but I ended up watching it on my own. I've read that this is the most requested movie to be screened at the Wh...
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max sees movies: #80: The Apartment
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. March 22, 2010. Billy Wilder's 1960 film The Apartment. Deserves quotations around the word "comedy." As in: this has all the characteristics of a comedy, but a lot of other additional elements that make me wonder. Hmm. I'll try to formulate an argument here. College bud and stage manager extraordinaire; Maggie. Younger sister, chat-room-based relationship deterrent. Which requires prescribed nasal spray. Luckily for him (and us) . But is it enough?
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max sees movies: AFI Retrospective: 10 I'd Ditch
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. April 11, 2012. AFI Retrospective: 10 I'd Ditch. Okay, part two of this retrospective on this great project. First I talked about ten pleasant surprises. Top Ten I'd Ditch. 10 A Night at the Opera. Let me start by saying the Marx Brothers were total geniuses, and the scene above is so inspired and magical. Their other film on the list, Duck Soup. 9 The French Connection. Which is way more deserving of this list. 8 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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max sees movies: #43: Midnight Cowboy
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. January 28, 2011. I just got back from a couple days with family on South Padre Island in southern Texas, so the opening strains of John Schlesinger's 1969 film Midnight Cowboy. Seemed familiar to me. As it went on, it became less familiar (thank God), but it grew into a film I did not expect. It's just that a lot of these movies are a hard sell. The film opens by zooming out from a dilapidated. Things aren't really going his way - he can't find women...
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max sees movies: #61: Sullivan's Travels
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. August 4, 2010. To the memory of those who made us laugh: the motley mountebanks, the clowns, the buffoons, in all times and in all nations, whose efforts have lightened our burden a little, this picture is affectionately dedicated.". Was another one I had pretty much no idea about. How can it have made it onto this list and it's never even crossed my path of consciousness? You see the symbolism? It has social significance! Of course, this journey of ...
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max sees movies: #31: The Maltese Falcon
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. May 13, 2011. 31: The Maltese Falcon. It was a dark and stormy night. Okay, it just goes to show that I'm a product of the 90s when I say that the next film on the list reminded me of a Tracer Bullet story (thanks, Calvin). John Huston's 1941 thriller The Maltese Falcon. All on my own, like our antihero and our antiheroine. Chips and queso and a whiskey Diet. Influenced, too, by film noir). Don't look now, Spade, but you're being trailed yourself.
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max sees movies: #45: Shane
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Diablogging my way through cinematic understandiness. January 6, 2011. I'm not gonna lie: one of the many things I've learned over the course of this blog is that I naturally distrust and dislike westerns. It's not one thing to blame for this - I've come to accept that as a genre I just can't get behind them. George Stevens' 1952 stab at the genre, Shane. Was in and out, but mostly out. A cup of coffee from my new Chemex (thanks Christmas! These bad guys' approach on horseback is signalled by menacing, m...
