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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. The Intruder So I asked my girlfriend, do you want to watch an old movie where William Shatner plays a racist? Apparently it was her favorite quote out of me for the day. That's right, Netflix finally sent me The Intruder. Many people say this is both Roger Corman's greatest directing effort and also William Shatner's greatest lead acting picture. Now I would necessarily assume either of those qualifications would really make a great movie, but putting them together is at least a movie I certainly wanted to see! If you are amused by Shatner's oratory, the is certainly a film to see. I can imagine this film gives a good impression of some of the atmosphere of the parts of the South in the early sixties. It's hard to say if some of the characters were a bit exaggerated, but there is a surprising amount of complexity to many of the main characters as well. I don't know if this is Corman's ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring) (I'm skipping #23, The Intruder right now since it took a long time for Netflix to send it to me, but I'll get to that soon (as if anyone cared what order I post these things)) Bergman's The Seventh Seal is one of my all time favorite films. Knowing that The Virgin Spring was another Bergman picture set within the later Medieval period and featuring a couple of the same actors were many things that made me interested in seeing it. It also had religious themes (but which of Bergman's films don't?). The film mixes brutality with forgiveness. Anger with God and with total dependence and worship of Him. Contrasts and themes that appear in many of Bergman's works, but the kind of simplicity of story and complexity of themes here is one of the most extreme contrasts. Although from what I've read Bergman went from thinking this one of his greatest films to ... "
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"The Intruder is the best Hollywood film about race relations of its era. It is the only film of its time that I have seen that shows what it might have actually been like in the South during the civil rights movement. There is a sense of honesty and reality to this film that is still jarring. Even at their best intentioned, Hollywood movies like To Kill a Mockingbird and In the Heat of the Night seem to have a sense of equivocation and calculation. They are consistently trying to figure out how far they can go without offending Southern or conservative white audiences. I have no doubt that Robert Mulligan and Norman Jewison and the makers of the films like the one listed above sincerely wanted to speak out against bigotry with their respective films, but the message ended up "
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"This is a list for Round 2 of my movie year countdown viewing project as first described here. If by any strange chance whoever is reading this is actually following along you may notice that I'm still less than two thirds of the way through my original one. Well I'm starting this new one because as much as I love old movies it can get a little tedious watching just older movies. So I'm going to be blending my watching of the two lists together. Still focusing on the original one, but every once in a while sliding in the next entry from this new list.Again these new movies are limited to full length movies that are available on Netflix. And for this new round instead of picking a movie from every year, I will be picking a movie from every two years. For example the first movie must have come out during 2006 or 2007. The second movie must have come out in 2004 or 2005. The next in 2002 or 2003. You see.The list is not finished yet, but here is what I have decide ... "
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