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Tag Archives: war
3 things about Richard Lester’s THE BED SITTING ROOM
The Bed Sitting Room [1969] 1. “Love? Love is a four-letter word. So is ball, come to think of it.” 2. She makes knitting motions with her hands. 3. An escalator to nowhere. An amazingly well-designed movie, surely one that … Continue reading
March 20, 2003
On the evening of March 20, 2003 I was working as a field researcher for a UIC/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health study. My job was to go door to door to the addresses randomly chosen for the study and conduct … Continue reading
3 things about Stuart Rosenberg’s VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
Voyage of the Damned [1976] 1. “The only sure thing in Cuba, doctor, is … a cigar.” 2. Faye Dunaway with a monocle. 3. She picks up the clumps of her own hair which she has cut off and piles … Continue reading
3 things about Kathryn Bigelow’s ZERO DARK THIRTY
Zero Dark Thirty [2012] 1. “He’s never leaving here, is he?” 2. Tony Robbins. 3. He hands the child a glowing lightstick. She looks at it in wonder.
3 things about Akira Kurosawa’s KAGEMUSHA
Kagemusha [1980] 1. He has three attendants and two pages. 2. Fan song interlude. 3. He is banished from his own mansion. They pelt him with mud.
3 things about John Frankenheimer’s THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
The Manchurian Candidate [1962] 1. Pinocchio on the theater marquee. 2. He pours some wine into a V-shaped glass and drinks it down. 3. First on the forehead, then on the cheek, and then on the lips. 3 other things.
3 things about David Lean’s LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Lawrence of Arabia [1962] 1. When Lawrence first eats with Tafas, he uses his left hand. Bad etiquette. 2. A large bowl of chipped ice at the end of the bar. 3. “A deserter. But from which army?” The curl … Continue reading
3 things about Peter Weir’s THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
The Year of Living Dangerously [1982] 1. “Here they come, Sir Guy and the Black Dwarf.” 2. She dips her hand into a bowl of water filled with flowers. 3. As they begin to dismantle his tape recorder, he slowly moves … Continue reading
3 things about Terrence Malick’s THE THIN RED LINE
The Thin Red Line [1998] 1. An old man walks past without ackowledging them. 2. In the midst of the bombardment, a blue butterfly. 3. “Sounds like bliss.”
3 things about John Sturges’ THE GREAT ESCAPE
The Great Escape [1963] 1. Trouser leg dirt sleeves. 2. Richard Attenborough’s eye scar makeup seems to come and go. 3. He ends up back in the cooler with his baseball.
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