3 things about Vincente Minnelli’s TEA AND SYMPATHY

Posted on December 18, 2025 by robchristopher

Tea and Sympathy [1956]

1. Bonfire like a flaming cross.
2. “Years from now when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.”
3. She remarks that he has hands like a woman’s.

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3 things about Joseph Cates’ WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR

Posted on December 9, 2025 by robchristopher

Who Killed Teddy Bear [1965]

1. Theater poster for Victor Borge.
2. Dollbaby, dollbaby, dollbaby.
3. “You have a great body.”
“I like to work out.”

What a disturbing and awesome movie. Sal Mineo and Elaine Stritch are fearless!

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3 things about Roy Rowland’s THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T.

Posted on December 7, 2025 by robchristopher

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. [1953]

1. Parachute shirttail.
2. He puts her away for the night in her “lock-me-tight.”
3. “I want my leg-of-mutton sleeves and in addition to those/I want my cutie chamois booties with the leopard skin bows/I want my pink-brocaded bodice with the fluffy, fuzzy ruffs/And my gorgeous bright blue bloomers with the monkey feather cuffs”

3 other things.

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3 things about Preston Sturges’ HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO

Posted on December 5, 2025 by robchristopher

Hail the Conquering Hero [1944]

1. Burning the mortgage at the pulpit.
2. “I never felt better in my life, except I never felt worse.”
3. Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith.

3 other things.

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3 things about John Carpenter’s ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

Posted on December 3, 2025 by robchristopher

Assault on Precinct 13 [1976]

1. “I go through all that, and his gun isn’t even loaded.”
2. Blood on the car roof.
3. Crowbar hooks coming over the edge of the door.

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3 things about Jia Zhangke’s CAUGHT BY THE TIDES

Posted on December 2, 2025 by robchristopher

Caught by the Tides [2024]

1. Pushing her back into the seat again and again and again.
2. Wordlessly removing the taser gun from her purse and showing it to the would-be robbers.
3. The robot apologizes for not being able to read her face. She lowers her mask.

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3 things about Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

Posted on November 25, 2025 by robchristopher

It Was Just an Accident [2025]

1. Motif of stray dogs.
2. After telling the security guards he doesn’t have any cash on him, one of them helpfully produces a mobile credit card reader and punches in the amount of the bribe.
3. Box of sweets for the nurse.

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3 things about Marc Forster’s QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Posted on November 24, 2025 by robchristopher

Quantum of Solace [2008]

1. “Hello. We’re teachers on sabbatical and we’ve just won the lottery.”
2. Tripping him on the stairs “accidentally.”
3. Literally at the end of his rope.

3 other things.

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3 things about John G. Avildsen’s SAVE THE TIGER

Posted on November 23, 2025 by robchristopher

Save the Tiger [1973]

1. Garters for his socks.
2. “You want something?”
“Yes … I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I want to see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Hear Billie Holiday sing ‘Fine and Mellow.’ Walk in that kind of rain that never washes the perfume away. I want to be in love with something. Anything. Just an idea. A dog, a cat, anything. Something.”
3. He slips him the envelope of cash and tells him to do it Sunday, while Phil is out fishing.

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3 things about Robina Rose’s NIGHTSHIFT

Posted on November 22, 2025 by robchristopher

Nightshift [1981]

1. Telephone conversation in the lounge.
2. Eating a meal at her desk.
3. Glass cleaner.

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