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"This is the fourth feature length film I've seen by director Frank Capra. I chose to watch this film based on previous good ratings I've given other films by this director and to better my favorite directors by algorithm listing. Arsenic and Old Lace I can't stop rating every Frank Capra movie I see a 10. I don't know if this is some pattern that I have established myself that I cannot break myself from, or if it's a pattern that Capra established with his amazing career! I felt hesitant about giving this movie another 10. I kept second guessing myself. Wouldn't a 9 really be more appropriate? The movie doesn't have the same kind of morality that Capra's other movies I've seen had. In fact there are even some reprehensible characters that it seems like we are supposed to feel sympathetic for! But the movie was a lot of fun. But was it re "
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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Mr. Frank Capra scores a hat trick with me! This is the third film of his I have seen, and I give all three a perfect score of 10 out of 10. No man can craft a better sappy, emotionally manipulative story that absolutely works for me! There's no mystery to these stories. With this film, It's a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the stories are clearly about a pure man of innocence and morals in a world that seems to be all against him but reveals itself to be full of many people just as good as him. Why do Capra's movies of this sort work over other formulaic films that attempt the same kinds of sappy stories? Well on one side it's clearly excellence in all of the major aspects of solid movie making of this type. Fantastic writing, filming and editing, and perfect casting and acting, especially for the leads. On the other side, it must be just a ki ... "
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"One of the most popular sex scenes of all time is the kitchen scene from the 1981 version of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But many people find the more implicit parts of the 1946 version to be sexier. These people include the earlier film’s female lead, Lana Turner, who wrote in her autobiography, “[The makers of the 1981 film] didn’t have to worry about the censors. I’d had to project a rather intense sexual presence, but always with my clothes on. I was amused to read that [NY Times film critic] Vincent Canby considered the remake a pale, rather sexless imitation of my version.” Yes, a film with neither nudity nor simulated lovemaking can be quite sexy, likely sexier than an explicit remake, for innuendo and other teasing maneuvers around either the Hays Code or the MPAA ratings board’s restrictions are far more tantalizing than any bare and balls-out displays of graphic sex common in movies today. Though many cl "
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"Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now. Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (
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"If you took one look at the existence of the new movie Ghost Town and dismissed it on account of its familiarity, you’re ignoring the potential of one of the most valuable plot devices available to fiction. Sure, the employment of ghosts in a narrative may also be evidence of laziness, as the device is just as much a convenience as it is a useful tool for storytellers. Not everyone can be Shakespeare, and of course there is a lot of redundancy and (excuse the pun) lifelessness in the majority of movies involving ghosts. However, ghosts can also be highly representative and/or serve a film on a deeper level than the surface story. To use another pun, ghost movies are not always so transparent. Like zombies, their plot-device sibling, ghosts have a way of signifying greater ideas, subjects and themes, and aren’t always merely about scares and talking-to-thin-air gags. In a conversation with Cinematical’s Erik Davis, Ghost Town director/co-writer David Koepp had this to say about the ... "
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx It's a Wonderful Life is on the following AFI lists:The Original Top 100 (#11)100 Years...100 Passions (#8)100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains (Mr. Potter is the #6 villain, and George Bailey is the #9 hero)100 Most Inspiring Movies (#1)The Revised Top 100 (#20)10 Top 10's (#3 Fantasy) True confessions time: up until now, watching this film for my silly little AFI project and reaching #11 on the original list, I had never watched It's a Wonderful Life all the way through (ducking, anticipating tomatoes). That's why the title of this bloggy review says "sort of;" I mean, it's impossible not to catch at least part of this movie during its annual hundreds of rotations on cable at Christmastime, but that was really the trouble, you see. I managed to catch bits and pieces of this classic, usually around the time ... "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Fantasy
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"As with Moonstruck's appearance on the romantic comedy list, I found myself charmed by many of the selections on the fantasy list, even where I may not have made the choice myself. I was particularly happy to see Groundhog Day (1993) on this Top 10, but, like a number of other films here, the more I thought about the idea of “fantasy”, the more I began to wonder if some weren't misplaced or mis-categorized. Groundhog Day, alongside Harvey (1950), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), may be fantasies, but they are more accurately described as “fables”, that is, as stories that are essentially about life lessons rather than the fantastic, though they may use fantasy elements to tell their stories. Where the three older films are concerned, there are questions that clearly can, and are, raised about what the protagonists have experienced or who they actually are. Is George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) actually v "
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"Every Wednesday in the Spout offices, we effectively close down to watch a movie. Movie Watchin’ Wednesday we call it…kind of cheesy, I know, but it works for us. This past Wednesday we watched It’s A Wonderful Life and a curious thing happened. Although I have personally seen this movie at least once a year for the past 30 or so, many of the people in our office had effectively avoided it or only seen clips. What a shame! This is such a fantastic film and the origin of so many tropes. If you haven’t seen it before, now is your chance. Close your office down, gather the kids, surround yourself with your loved ones and be prepared for that warm Christmasy glow. Merry Christmas from the team at Spout! Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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"In response to Paramount’s consolidation of the marketing divisions of Paramount Pictures and Paramount Vantage, I went looking for a mash-up trailer that would give us a sense of what we’re in for. Because advertising for specialty films is typically different from advertising for major studio films. But seeing as Vantage has already done a fair enough job lately trying to make a documentary look like a teen comedy, the consolidation may not really be that noticeable after all. Anyway, I couldn’t find a good mash-up that re-cut a recent independent film to resemble a blockbuster, so here’s something else entirely that I found during my search. It’s a Wonderful Life “made "
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The best movie you've never seen.
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"That's the way a friend once described it to me when he saw an ad for it at a former local art house. (I miss the Roxy.) Was he ever right. If you only know Frank Capra from the perennial Christmas chestnut It's a Wonderful Life (1946), you should try to find this movie. It is a much darker movie. It deals with the sexual attraction that grows between a white missionary's wife for a Chinese warlord. When she becomes seperated from from her husband during a battle that overwhelms an orphanage, Barbara Stanwick finds herself held captive by an sophisticated general. The desire between the two blind them to the dangers that surround them. "
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