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Entries Tagged as 'Grandfather/grandson relationship'

Time With One Cold-Blooded Bastard

July 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments

In the month of July, I take a look at films released in my very favorite film stock and aspect ratio: black & white in anamorphic. Unless they’re being financed with credit cards, movies are rarely shot like this anymore because they’re impossible to sell to television. Yet these dreams sneak [...]

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Tags: Based on novel · Coming of age · Drunk scene · Famous line · Grandfather/grandson relationship · Master and pupil · Shot In Texas · Small town · Western

Avalon (1990)

January 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Synopsis
“I came to America in 1914, by way of Philadelphia. That’s where I got off the boat. And then I came to Baltimore. It was the most beautiful place you have ever seen in [...]

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Tags: Father/son relationship · Grandfather/grandson relationship