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Swing Time

Swing Time (1936) Director: George Stevens ★★★★★ Swing Time is a wonderful film, and may be Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's finest movie. Together they made ten Hollywood films, and nine of which were musicals for RKO. Six of them were the top money-makers for RKO. As Katherine Hepburn once said, "He gives her class, and … Continue reading Swing Time →

Great Books Guy Classic Film 1 Comment 17 Nov 201825 Aug 2020

L’age d’Or

L'age d'Or (1930) Director: Luis Buñuel One of the first sound films made in France, L'age d'Or or "the age of gold" is a surprisingly compelling surrealist film with the screenplay written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, not unlike their earlier film, Un Chien Andalou. It is a strangely Freudian film that is linked by … Continue reading L’age d’Or →

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