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Silkwood

comment, Friday 12. March 2010, 03:41

Remember the real story & movie "Silkwood." She was a whistle-blower rear-ended -- and killed. It's again a true US ...

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Short review Lebanon (6), turin, comment, Thursday 11. March 2010, 02:59

O.K. Mixup resolved.

Liebe Libanon, comment, Thursday 11. March 2010, 02:52

The mixup. Michuk's review arrived first, I assumed it was yours. Both reviews: 100% diff. So dimwit-here was very confused. ...

Short review Lebanon (6), turin, comment, Thursday 11. March 2010, 02:45

Sorry, Turin. There was an international misunderstanding. I got 2 reviews mixed up as one. It's my fault. Sorry, Michuk.

Anita Loos

comment, Wednesday 10. March 2010, 19:57

Author Anita Loos began selling scplays (for silents) when she was 14. In 1925 she published what's now considered a ...

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Short review Lebanon (6), turin, comment, Wednesday 10. March 2010, 19:31

'I didnt care much about it,' says Turin here. Other review uses word, 'masterpiece.' He contradicts self. In-out, all victims.

Lebanon [London Film Festival], comment, Wednesday 10. March 2010, 17:49

This is a rave. What I read earlier was v. ambiguous about the esthetics. In effect, 2 different reviews. And ...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (8)

short review, Wednesday 10. March 2010, 17:06

MM & Jane Russell are the gold-digggers in this Howard Hawks version of a sardonic double-entendre. Wickedly funny.

'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1953)

review: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Wednesday 10. March 2010, 16:56

Howard Hawks had a sense of humor that let him survive the studio system and its despots. He did mellers, screwballs, westerns, easterns, gangsterns -- you name it. Here's his version of the Anita Loos 'diary' from the '20s that ...

Short review Annie Hall (8), mjjzf, comment, Wednesday 10. March 2010, 16:19

See: Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Worldly Woody.