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Entries from March 2006

Seven Samurai (1954)

March 29th, 2006 · No Comments

In a 16th century Japan ravaged by civil war, when central authority has been fragmented and warlords rule, a village of penniless farmers learn that a horde of bandits plan to attack as soon as their rice is harvested. […]

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Band of Outsiders (1964)

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Two shiftless young Parisians - dreamer Franz (Sam Frey) and the opportunistic Arthur (Claude Brasseur) - plot to burgle cash from the foster home of a naïve girl (Anna Karina) they meet in their English […]

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Tags: Museums and galleries

Elizabethtown (2005)

March 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment

A tennis shoe designer (Orlando Bloom) is responsible for a sneaker that has become a mortal fiasco for his company. Dumped by his girlfriend and fired by his boss (Alec Baldwin), he opts to kill himself. But he fails there too when he gets a call from his sister (Judy Greer) to notify him that […]

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Tags: Bathtub scene · Road trip

Casablanca (1942)

March 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

Much beloved Oscar winner for Best Picture of 1942, this Warner Bros. Pictures classic begins with memorable narration. Lines of Europeans fleeing the Nazi advance lead south to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to North Africa by ship and then west across the desert by rail or automobile to the French controlled city of Casablanca. Those […]

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Tags: Famous line · Golden Age of Hollywood