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Sunday Matinee: La Notte
I started with Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura so I might as well continue with Antonioni’s loose trilogy about modernity and its discontents. Today’s Sunday Matinee is 1961’s La Notte (The...
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Sunday Matinee: L’Eclisse
Wrapping up Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy is the 1962 movie L’Eclisse. One of Antonioni’s main themes throughout all three films is emotional isolation. In L’Avventura Monica Vitti is...
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Sunday Matinee: The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
One of the great things about companies releasing movies all the time on Blu-ray/DVD is that you get to find films you might not find otherwise. For example The Criterion Collection just released the...
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Sunday Matinee: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
When I first heard about this movie which is advertised as the first Iranian Vampire Western, I assumed the movie was actually shot in Iran. This is not the case. Writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour is...
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Sunday Matinee: Bug Bunny
I used to do a little weekly post called Saturday Morning Cartoons for prairie dog. Every Saturday featured a throwback to an old Saturday morning cartoon. The post ran for a couple of years and...
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Sunday Matinee: Night And The City
Criterion has just released Night and the City on Blu ray. The brilliant 1950 Jules Dassin movie not the mediocre Robert De Niro ’92 remake. I love this movie, it’s the perfect example of film noir....
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Sunday Matinee: Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder’s black comedy/film noir/drama Sunset Boulevard turned 65 this week. This is a brilliant film that looks at the darker side of Hollywood and fame. The movie opens with William Holden...
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Sunday Matinee: Rififi
A couple of weeks ago I had written about the recently released Jules Dassin movie Night and the City and it occurred to me that while I had written about a later Jules Dassin heist movie Topkapi, I...
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Sunday Matinee: The Stranger
Orson Welles had a notorious time trying to make movies. The studio system hated him and after Citizen Kane and the massive fight Welles had during The Magnificent Ambersons he found it tough to make a...
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Sunday Matinee: Wes Craven
Legendary master of horror Wes Craven passed away last weekend at the age 76 from cancer. The first movie that Craven directed was way back in 1972 with The Last House on the Left, his unofficial...
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Sunday Matinee: Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
And now for something completely different. Today’s Sunday Matinee is the 1970 Czech New Wave film from director Jaromil Jires, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Based on a surrealist novel of the same...
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Sunday Matinee: ‘Breaker Morant’
Criterion is releasing Bruce Beresford’s brilliant anti-war adventure true story movie on DVD and Blu-Ray this week. Set in 1902 South African during the Boer War, Australian soldier Harry “Breaker”...
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Sunday Matinee: The Muppet Show
This will be the last Sunday Matinee for a while as October approaches and 31 Days of Horror will soon start. This year’s theme will Hammer Horror movies. Sunday Matinee will return in November. So...
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31 Days of Hammer: X The Unknown
When Hammer found international success with The Quatermass Xperiment they knew they quickly wanted to repeat their success and created a new sci-fi horror story but found that Quatermass creator Nigel...
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31 Days Of Hammer: The Abominable Snowman
1957 was a big year for Hammer. They had Quatermass 2 and this horror film from Quatermass writer Nigel Kneale based on Kneale TV play The Creature. But both features were overshadowed by the release...
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31 Days Of Hammer: The Mummy
As Hammer started having massive successes with horror films like The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula, they struck up an agreement with Universal Studios to remake several of their monster...
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31 Days Of Hammer: The Plague of Zombies
By the mid-1960’s Hammer was in full swing pumping out a several horror movies a year. On top of their many many Frankenstein and Dracula movies, they also tackled mummies, more vampires, werewolves,...
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31 Days Of Hammer: The Gorgon
In a smaller German village in the early 1900’s, a young man is arrested for murder of his girlfriend after the two of them stumble upon something in the woods. The man commits suicide and the court...
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31 Days Of Hammer: The Curse Of The Werewolf
I love a good werewolf movie but they do seem to be few and far between. There’s more bad than good. Hammer Films only attempted one werewolf movie but fortunately it was one of the few good ones. A...
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31 Days Of Hammer: The Reptile
A plague seems to be affecting a small English village at the turn of the century (Hammer loved recycling sets, actors, directors and plot ideas). Charles Spalding (David Baron) finds a note telling to...
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