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Month: April 2024

Bicycle Thieves: So Simple, So Basic, So Completely Unattainable.

Bicycle Thieves: So Simple, So Basic, So Completely Unattainable.

Released: November 1948. Directed by: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari, Vittorio Antonucci, Michele Sakara, Carlo Jachino as A Beggar. Few films are so simple, yet so profound, honest, emotional, and 76 years after its original release, so brutally relevant today. Bicycle Thieves is that movie. The story is simple, Antonio Ricci (LamBerto Maggiorani) is an unemployed man with a wife and two small children. Antonio gets a job, but…

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‘Who are Those Guys?’: The Super Posse in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

‘Who are Those Guys?’: The Super Posse in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Released: September 1969 Directed by: George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Donnelly Rhodes, Timothy Scott, and Charles Dierkop as Flat Nose Curry. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the iconic western from 1969, contains many classic scenes and characters. The knife fight between Butch (Paul Newman) and Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy), ‘Rain Drops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’, Woodcock (George Furth) who…

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The Big Lift: Significant, Palatable Propaganda.

The Big Lift: Significant, Palatable Propaganda.

Released: April 1950 Directed by: George Seaton Cast: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Lobel, O.E. Hasse, Dante V. Morel, John R. Mason, Gail R. Plush, Mack Blevins, William A. Stewart as Capt. William A. Stewart. Shot in 1949, at the tail end of the Berlin Airlift, The Big Lift is a propaganda film. But unlike most propaganda films, The Big Lift is uniquely palatable. It is also significant. As time marches on. The aftermath of the Second World…

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On the Remake Chopping Block: The Night of the Hunter.

On the Remake Chopping Block: The Night of the Hunter.

I recently heard there is going to be a ‘modern day’ remake of Charles Laughton’s 1955 classic, The Night of the Hunter, based on the novel by Davis Grubb. If I had been drinking coffee at the time I would have spit it out. This is yet another example of Hollywood throwing away money on a project that will in no way be better than the original, and a film nobody asked for. Trying to figure out why filmmakers want…

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