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Gigi (1958)
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"The Academy Awards barely recognize comedic talent in film, so it’s kind of ironic that the Oscars have typically been hosted by a comedic personality. Since the Academy primarily honors serious movies and performances, it’d be more fitting to have Sean Penn leading the show. But TV audiences love a funny variety program, and the tradition has worked out well thanks to humorists like Will Rogers, Bob Hope and Billy Crystal, so the comedy has been a constant. This year, however, the ceremony will feature Hugh Jackman as emcee, and the joke-filled monologue has been axed. But is it still ironic that an actor best known for playing a superhero is hosting an award show that fails to regularly celebrate blockbuster franchises like his X-Men series? And are the producers capitalizing on this irony by hiring Jackman, who will certainly be promoting his upcoming spin-off, X-Men Origins: Wolverine? When the choice was announced, plenty of people immediately thought of the ratings-boosting p ... "
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"I used to love the French as much I love the British, but I became disilussioned when I finally had access to French films. The problem is that I really liked the French as they were portrayed by Americans before it became fashionable to hate them, whereas I still love how the British portray themselves. Watch a French movie, and you often see an extreamly gritty group of people who have sex and worry about money alot as well as having a major problem with dissulisioned youth. However, in American musicals like Gigi you see a rich, charming society who go on expensive excursions continiously and make witty comments about love. Plus, the songs are by the team that brought us Camelot! Set in Paris in 1900, Gigi (Leslie Caron) is a rich young woman who is dating Gaston (Louis Jourdan), a rich young man. They love each other a lot, and sing songs about it. There is also a subplot involving a charming old French guy (Maurice Chevalier) and Gigi's grandmother (Hermonie Gingold). T ... "
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"Alright, it’s not actually a film review, but in a letter of correspondence from 1981, to lover Janet Eagleson, the Catcher in the Rye author does pan the original Indiana Jones film. However, it’s difficult to say the man doesn’t have good taste in movies. In the same handwritten note, he also mention that he enjoyed Truffaut’s The Last Metro. Behold the great American novelist’s actual words: …Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro…I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors… I guess it’s not all that amazing, but I find Salinger’s comments interesting because I’d always figured he was a curmudgeonly hater of films. Part of my misconception is due to Holden Caulfield’s attitude toward cinema in Catcher, and part is due to Salinger’s refusal to permit a movie adaptation of Catcher or any other works post-My Foolish Heart (an adaptation of Salinger ... "
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