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""Trumbo" is the story of charismatic blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and his turbulent rise from the career and life-tarnishing government brand. Based on son Christopher's play, Peter Askin's film weaves rollicking archival interviews with readings of Dalton's equally bizarre but beautiful letters (his preferred form of distance communication) read by current Hollywood royalty, including Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane and Liam Neeson.The actors turn the recreations into full-blown celebrations of Dalton's fantastic use of language, notably epitomized in a sarcasm-tinged note to an electric company representative and an improbably long ode to masturbation, addressed to a teenaged Christopher. And though these words are Dalton's, they are still outdone by the man himself, always in peak form, twisting words to the pleasure of all.When the content shifts to the wide-reaching effects of his blacklisting, the opposite of Dalton's widespread joy is revealed in the attitudes of outsid ... "
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"Star Wars may have the most famous opening title sequence in film history, but in terms of influence it’s got nothing on the work of Saul Bass. He’s the brilliant graphic designer who gave us the animated credits for Hitchcock’s Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho and Scorsese’s Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence and Goodfellas and most of Otto Preminger’s work, including Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder and
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"In the January 14th issue of Time, film critic Richard Corliss eschews reviewing the week's releases (it is January, after all) to instead pontificate on the state of the Oscars ("How to Save the Awards Shows"). As many are wont to do, Corliss offers his suggestion on how to improve the Oscars. He throws out the notions usually bandied about in bids for cheap audience thrills, and suggests something that he considers self-evidently simple: give the awards to popular movies.Now, with all respect to Mr. Corliss, I agree that the Oscars don't have the finest track record for nominations, let alone for awards. But if I may be granted my say, the problem with the list is that it usually slants too commercial. Does anyone really think The Departed was the best picture of 2006? Or Crash the best picture of 2005? Or Million Dollar Baby the best picture of 2004? Or... well, you get the idea.Granted, these are not bad films. (Okay, Crash "
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"Caught the second half of this one on TCM last night (have seen it before, but it has been a loooong time). While it does have a spectacular chariot race sequence, the rest of the movie just leaves me flat. The chariot race takes place about 3/4 of the way through the movie, and then you are left with the 'leper mother and sister' storyline to keep the audiences interest for another hour. The direction and set ups, aside from the grandiose set pieces, are of the garden variety 'biblical epic' style i.e. a lot of side views, as if you are looking at rennaisance paintings (a lot of the set-ups in DeMille's Ten Commandments are cut from the same cloth).Won 'best picture' in a year with rather weak competition (although if the Academy had any guts or imagination, they would have given it to "Some Like It Hot", as well as the Best Actor award to Lemmon, which went to Heston). Heston is his usual scenery chewing self, and Hugh Griffith has some fun with his r ... "
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