3 things about Leo McCarey’s THE AWFUL TRUTH

Posted on December 14, 2020 by robchristopher

The Awful Truth [1937]

1. A ready-to-go eggnog cart.
2. “I don’t know what to say.”
“If you leave now, you won’t have to say anything.”
3. Cuckoo clock.

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3 things about Michael Curtiz’s WHITE CHRISTMAS

Posted on December 13, 2020 by robchristopher

White Christmas [1954]

1. Dashing from Florida to Vermont. And then they get there and there’s no snow. Early global warming musical.
2. “Sisters” is gay enough the first time around; the second time, it’s like gay on top of gay.
3. A minstrel show number that, thankfully, has almost nothing to do with minstrel shows.

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3 things about Alfred Hitchcock’s MARNIE

Posted on December 12, 2020 by robchristopher

Marnie [1964]

1. “Don’t crowd me, lady. I’m fighting a powerful impulse to beat the hell out of you.”
2. She retreats somewhere deep inside herself and offers no resistance.
3. Rolled up newspaper as telescope.

3 other things.

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3 things about David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY

Posted on December 6, 2020 by robchristopher

The Straight Story [1999]

1. Grabber for $10.
2. Unexplained pack of dogs.
3. When he orders a beer, the bartender asks him, “What flavor?”

3 other things.

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3 things about Terrence Malick’s A HIDDEN LIFE

Posted on December 2, 2020 by robchristopher

A Hidden Life [2019]

1. She tries to comfort her. Mud-caked fingers on her head.
2. “Sign this, you’ll be free.”
“I am free now.”
“Then why am I here?”
3. A room entirely in black with a wet floor.

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3 things about Jonathan Frakes’ STAR TREK: INSURRECTION

Posted on December 1, 2020 by robchristopher

Star Trek: Insurrection [1998]

1. Gilbert & Sullivan strategy.
2. The giveaway: a glitchy holodeck.
3. He has 318 days of shore leave coming to him.

3 other things.

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3 things about René Clair’s AND THEN THERE NONE

Posted on November 30, 2020 by robchristopher

And Then There Were None [1945]

1. He samples several cocktails to prove he didn’t poison them.
2. Keyholes within keyholes.
3. A murderer fond of cats.

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3 things about Young-seok Noh’s DAYTIME DRINKING

Posted on November 29, 2020 by robchristopher

Daytime Drinking [2008]

1. “Hey, do you still dance to weird music when you get drunk?”
2. Heated floors.
3. They’re just business partners.

3 other things.

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3 things about Juliano Dornelles & Kleber Mendonça Filho’s BACURAU

Posted on November 25, 2020 by robchristopher

Bacurau [2019]

1. Crowd surfing the suitcase.
2. Nudists with shotguns.
3. “We have all taken a powerful psychotropic drug.”

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3 things about Franklin J. Schaffner’s THE BEST MAN

Posted on November 22, 2020 by robchristopher

The Best Man [1964]

1. “I don’t understand you.”
“I know you don’t. Because you have no sense of responsibility toward anybody or anything. And that is a tragedy in a man, and it is a disaster in a president.”
2. Crumpled phone number.
3. His name is a clue: Cantwell.

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