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Ferdy on Films, etc.: May 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Saturday, May 27, 2006. Before it even hit theatres,. Was drawing strong reactions from moviegoers. Some stood up in theatres that played a trailer for the film and yelled too soon! I already knew the work of Paul Greengrass. I watched. 2002), his verite look at the 1972 British massacre of civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland, reduce an audience...
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: September 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Thursday, September 28, 2006. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). This is the best film of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s book. In fact, it’s better than the book. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels hardly stack up against his short-story gems. The novel of. Roasts the man in the fireplace. First seen in delicately menacing sunlight with Bernard’s eerie oboe sc...
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: January 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Monday, January 30, 2006. Where would English creatives be without their public schools? Mick Travis (McDowell) is one of three sixth-formers who form a small rebel faction at the fictional College House (played, in part, by Anderson's real alma mater Cheltenham). Travis hangs. From the vantage point of 2006, the experimental devices used in. Was an obv...
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: August 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Tuesday, August 29, 2006. When Robert Wise was given the assignment late in his career to direct this film of an apparent reincarnation "gone wrong," he was well prepared for the task. During his long career, Wise directed many tales of the eerie, such as the brilliant. 1963) He also directed some of the finest women's films around, including. A ripped-...
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: June 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Friday, June 30, 2006. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It is my considered opinion that the collaboration between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was the greatest of its kind in the history of entertainment. How many directors could claim such genuine masterpieces as. I Know Where I’m Going! And s...
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: December 2005
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Saturday, December 31, 2005. A Hole in the Head. A Hole in the Head. Is a later entry in the Capra. But it has a familiar sound. This is. It's a Wonderful Life. A Hole in the Head. Posted by Marilyn @ 11:29 AM. Friday, December 30, 2005. The Call of Cthulhu. The Call of Cthulhu. A low-budget film shot as a silent in the 21st century, is the one that sho...
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: October 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Friday, October 13, 2006. Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels. Introduces us to Melanie Daniels, a socialite in the fullest sense of the word. A creature of her big-city environment, comfortable with her social and sexual status, adroit, adept at getting. What she wants. Intelligent, wily, occupied, but powerfully bored, indulging. Humans are livi...
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: July 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Sunday, July 30, 2006. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004). Among the successes of the genre are Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. 1978), which records the last live concert of The Band; the Maysles brothers’ Gimme Shelter. 1970), about the Rolling Stones’ disastrous concert at Altamont, California; Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock.
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Ferdy on Films, etc.: March 2006
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Ferdy on Films, etc. Film reviews and commentary, random thoughts on the world around us, blatant promotion of favorite charities, and other ponderables. Thursday, March 30, 2006. Grand, isn't it? Great, isn't it? Swell, isn't it? Fun, isn't it? When Fred Ebb wrote those lyrics for John Kander’s catchy celebration of the immorality of the Jazz Age, Nowadays, for the stage musical. In the 1990s,. The show opens in a backstage frenzy of nightclub performers getting ready for their acts. One such perfor...