December’s Movie Selection – The Apartment
“You know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked among eight million people. Then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were… It’s a …
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October’s Movie Selection – Dark City
“Dark City” by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like “Metropolis” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.” If it is …
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September’s Movie Selection – Limelight
Although it was not quite his last film, there can be little doubt that “Limelight” was Charlie Chaplin’s farewell. It is also probably his most personal, revealing film. He plays …
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August’s Movie Selection – Millions
It is rare that a family film is both visually sophisticated and emotionally nuanced. MILLIONS, the fantastical tale of two British brothers and the large sack of cash literally dropped …
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June’s Movie Selection – Monterey Pop Festival
Laura Nyro played the Monterey Pop Festival, but did not make the final cut.
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April’s Movie Selection – The Fits
“The Fits,” the feature fiction debut of Anna Rose Holmer, is all of 72 minutes long. It rarely leaves the inner-city community center in which most of the action takes …
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March’s Movie Selection – Tampopo
Initially marketed as the first “ramen western,” Juzo Itami’s Tampopo is a hilarious take on food and love that also functions as a tribute to spaghetti westerns and chambara films. Cowboy-hatted truck driver Gorō (Tsutomu Yamazaki) …
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