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"A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. < "
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"A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. < "
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"Two days after the Universal Studios fire, there are a lot of rumors going around as to the extent of the damage. A FishbowlLA tipster from a revival house in Alabama fed the blog an email that they say came directly from Universal, warning that “nearly 100% of the archive prints kept” on the lot went up in flames, and as a result, the studio “will be unable to honor any film bookings of prints that were set to ship from here.” The tragic details after the jump. Basically, any theater scheduled to rent an archive print directly from Universal is now advised to consider their reservation “canceled,” although “If the shipping instructions say ship from Deluxe then those dates are still good.” Any while the studio’s vault of masters was apparently unharmed, it’s apparently only going to be practical for them to reprint a fraction of the lost titles. The email goes on: “The bad news is that most likely, only the ‘big’ titles will ever be reprinted in 35mm. Many Universal titles will n ... "
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"Two days after the Universal Studios fire, there are a lot of rumors going around as to the extent of the damage. A FishbowlLA tipster from a revival house in Alabama fed the blog an email that they say came directly from Universal, warning that “nearly 100% of the archive prints kept” on the lot went up in flames, and as a result, the studio “will be unable to honor any film bookings of prints that were set to ship from here.” The tragic details after the jump. Basically, any theater scheduled to rent an archive print directly from Universal is now advised to consider their reservation “canceled,” although “If the shipping instructions say ship from Deluxe then those dates are still good.” Any while the studio’s vault of masters was apparently unharmed, it’s apparently only going to be practical for them to reprint a fraction of the lost titles. The email goes on: “The bad news is that most likely, only the ‘big’ titles will ever be reprinted in 35mm. Many Universal titles will n ... "
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Killer Waitress Slither
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"Oh, happy day, finally some good films.The filmspotting guys are having a film noir marathon now, so I queued up The Killers and had a blast. Based on an Ernest Hemingway short story (so you know automatically that women are going to be evil), the film is set up so that the main character dies at the beginning. Excellent opening sequence with the killers coming into a local diner to look for "The Swede." The rest of the movie follows an insurance investigator as he tries to piece together the puzzle of why the Swede left everything to a hotel worker whom he barely knew. I enjoyed the flashbacks, the moody cinematography and the great score. Noir rules.Slither is one of those comedy/horror films that are just loads of fun. A meteor lands in a sleepy little town, infects one of the locals and all hell breaks loose. I laughed alot, especially at the mayor, Greg Henry ("The Black Dahlia"), and reveled in the gore. Nathan Fillion ("Waitress"), fast becoming my new favorite actor, brings ... "
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"The Killers (1946) is an excellent film noir. It is based on an Ernest Hemingway short story published in Scribner’s in 1927. In rough drafts, Hemingway had called it “The Matadors,” and his concern, apparently, was how to die like a man. Although Hemingway got equal billing with producer Hellinger and director Robert Siodmak, the 1946 film version is more concerned with why than how the protagonist died. Thus The Swede (Burt Lancaster in his break-through role) is murdered in the first few minutes of the film. The insurance investigator, played with zest by Edmond O’Brien, just won’t rest until he has solved the puzzle. He has that old-fashioned quality that the British call “an enthusiasm.” The investigator unravels The Swede’s past, his failed boxing career, his powerful and instant attraction to Kitty Collins (Ava Gardner), his involvement in a huge payroll heist, and the aftermath of double crosses. It is a classic case of the bu ... "
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