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Day-Lewis Redux
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“There Will Be Blood” has proven a vexing movie for me; my simple test for almost anything literary or cinematic is that it moves me on many different levels, somehow touches my soul. I have concluded that the film is great but like “Citizen Kane” has a coldness to it, although the furnace/sled ending and […]
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“There Will Be Blood”
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Since I saw him first in “My Left Foot,” Daniel Day-Lewis has become my favorite actor, Al Pacino a close second. DeNiro is fading fast as he has lost his sure-footing at least in my eyes these past ten years. I recall Olivier’s comment that a good or great actor does it all with his […]
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“Where Do We Go from Here?”
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I believe this was the first movie I ever saw as a human being; vaguely, as I recall it, for I saw it in the 40s, a series of episodes in time, from the American Revolution…to…I cannot remember. As we grow older, as we age, the past in a cliche sense becomes starkly clearer — […]
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“Black Narcissus” and other films of note
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I just got a 50 inch HDTV. Both my fiancee, what an odd word at my age, and my son, Jordan, 31, have urged me to make the purchase…so I have made merry. When Ben Hur makes his big move in the hippodrome, the chariot wheels brutally cross my bed. Films such as “Black Narcissus” (Michael Powell) […]