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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe EXCEPT FOR MAYBE ELVIS, NO OTHER POP icon has exercised such sway over the American imagination as Marilyn Monroe, both for how she lived and how she died. ‘ Monroe Marilyn ‘ such a...
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7 Documentary Movies You Can & Should Watch Now
Image via Wikipedia We love documentaries as a genre at movie times because they provide the audience with ability to truly see one side of an issue in depth, compared with the 30 second mcnugget...
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Eat Pray Love
By Richard von Busack An animator who helped shrink Julia Roberts to Tinkerbelle size for Hook told me “Even six inches of her is too much.” This seemed too mean a comment to repeat until I saw Eat...
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The New Breed of Korean Actors
The New Breed of Korean Actors The new breed of Korean actors is unlike any other generation of Korean actors you might be familiar with. Gone are the stereotypes of Asian businessmen, immigrants, and...
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Dark in August: three vampire films at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center
by Richard von Busack There was a time when vampires didn’t suck: once they were frightening figures instead of big haired, emo-drunk metaphors for teen angst. “Dark in August,” this weekend at the...
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MAX OPHUL – The Elegant Genius of Cinema
MAX OPHULS returned to France in 1949. One of the most widely travelled of directors, this German-born film maker had directed films in Germany, Italy and Holland as well as in France which was his...
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THE THREE BILLION DOLLAR FENCE
The Fence Although we are normally focused exclusively on the current cinema and DVD releases, every so often we see something coming on TV that we think makes it worthwhile to stay at home. THE FENCE...
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Japanese Actors
From The Last Samurai and Memoirs of a Geisha to Babel and even Godzilla, many of Hollywood’s greatest hits and most treasured classics have been set in Japan. But setting has been only one reason why...
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Foreign Correspondent – Alfred Hitchcock
Foreign Correspondent, released in 1940, signified a major turning point in director Alfred Hitchcock’s career. Although the film was his second to be made in the United States, it constituted his...
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