Tag: essay
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The 39 Steps (1935) Review
The 39 Steps (1935) Director: Alfred Hitchcock ★★★★★ Hitchcock’s 39 Steps is an excellent film, and a glimpse of greatness from the ‘master of suspense’ in the future. It tells the tale of an innocent everyman who is framed by a wild conspiracy, a la North By Northwest. It should be an essential for every […]
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A Night At The Opera (1935) Review
A Night At The Opera (1935) Director: Sam Wood ★★★★☆ The Marx Brothers deliver another classic of comedic cinema with A Night At The Opera. It is a wonderful film filled with many memorable lines from Groucho and crazy hijinks from the brothers as they continue to lampoon bourgeois society. ‘A Night At The Opera’ […]
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It Happened One Night (1934) Review
It Happened One Night (1934) Director: Frank Capra “Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies!” ★★★☆☆ It Happened One Night is a terrific little nostalgia movie, an entertaining romp filled with comedy and romance. It is light-hearted and whimsical, and comes well-recommended, though in many ways it is also a […]
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Our Hospitality (1923) Review
8/27/16 Our Hospitality (1923) Director: Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton and John G. Blystone ★★★★★ With Our Hospitality Buster Keaton delivers a delightful film, the second of his ten brilliant films produced under Buster Keaton Productions. Our Hospitality is more sentimental than some of his later films, such as The General or Sherlock, Jr. The vast luxury of […]
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The Phantom Carriage (1921) Review
8/27/16 The Phantom Carriage (1921) Director: Victor Sjöström ★★★★☆ The Phantom Carriage is a phenomenal, haunting Swedish silent film, one of the seminal works of Swedish cinema. It was directed by and also starred Victor Sjöström, of later repute for directing The Wind and, most notably, he appeared as an elderly man in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild […]
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) Review
8/26/16 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) Director: Rex Ingram ★★★☆☆ In returning to the silent era films after a brief respite on my part, I encountered a monumental epic of cinematic history. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tells the story of an Argentinian family of diverse roots as they grow and move to […]
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