Movie Idiot

We went seeking greatness in movies, and were most often disappointed. We waited for a movie like the one we wanted to make, and secretly wanted to live. -Roger Ebert paraphrasing a quote from Masculin Feminin

Friday, June 27, 2014

In memoriam: Eli Wallach

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In light of the recent death of the fabulous Eli Wallach, I am reposting this review of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as I have come to ap...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

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On February 24th, Alice Herz-Sommer died. She was 110 years old and the oldest known Holocaust survivor. She was also an accomplished musici...
Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Black Swan

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As I watched Black Swan , one thing became increasingly evident to me. Director Darren Aronofsky seems obsessed with, well, obsession and th...

True Grit

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I grew up on Westerns. Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, those were the actors I saw in my youth. My parents would watch all those films and they ...

The King's Speech

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The death of Princess Diana in the 1990s was an event I can remember. I remember all the news reports and the silence of the royal family. S...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Movie Idiot pretends to be Trailer Guy and Fails

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Drive Angry - Holy hell. Pun intended. When a friend first told me about this preview I sort of laughed and cringed at the absurdity of the...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The Girlfriend Experience

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It seems like every couple of movies, Steven Soderbergh is trying something innovative and cutting edge. Several years ago it was Bubble , w...

A Little Trip To Heaven

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After four months of sitting on my desk unwatched, I finally opened up a netflix dvd that I had decided I should see. And as I stared at the...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

CinemaRomantico demands, I deliver, I can't have someone that influential mad at me

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Per the request of CinemaRomantico 1.) What was your first movie-going experience? I couldn't possibly tell you, but I can vividly remem...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Summer Movies I Want to See

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Or rather perhaps I should say, summmer movies I will see whether I truly desire to or not. Without adieu. Iron Man 2 - Well because Iron Ma...
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Rory Larry
I study the economic history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in my daytime commitments. Thus the desire to sneak away to the world of cinema.
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