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Entries Tagged as 'Museums and galleries'

A Little Romance (1979)

February 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

 
Synopsis
13-year-old Daniel (Thelonious Bernard) spends his day watching French dubbed versions of Robert Redford, Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall and Burt Reynolds move across the screen at a cinema in La Garenne. He […]

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Tags: Based on novel · Coming of age · Museums and galleries · Road trip · Train · Unconventional romance

Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead (1995)

December 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

 
Synopsis
Jimmy the Saint (Andy Garcia) - once some type of gangster, now legit - struggles to get a business off the ground, videotaping interviews with terminally ill clients to enable them to pass their wisdom on to their kin. At a club, […]

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Tags: Cult favorite · Famous line · Hitman · Museums and galleries · Prostitute

Vertigo (1958)

October 16th, 2007 · 7 Comments

31 days of October. 31 articles devoted to the screen’s maestro of suspense and the macabre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). I’ll be jumping back and forth through five decades in this series. More than half of the films I’ve never seen before, but even the ones I have seen were viewed, researched and written about this […]

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Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · Dreams and visions · Femme fatale · Museums and galleries · Unconventional romance

Torn Curtain (1966)

October 10th, 2007 · 6 Comments

31 days of October. 31 articles devoted to the screen’s maestro of suspense and the macabre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). I’ll be jumping back and forth through five decades in this series. More than half of the films I’ve never seen before, but even the ones I have seen were viewed, researched and written about this […]

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Tags: Interrogation · Museums and galleries · Paranoia