Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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The Virgin Spring
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Read more: The Virgin SpringI’ve always been wary of Ingmar Bergman. Too intellectual and artsy-fartsy, you know? Sometimes I download one of the Swedish auteur’s flicks only to end up deleting it months later
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Unearthly Stranger (1963)
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Read more: Unearthly Stranger (1963)A British scientist had just made a breakthrough with the “formula” for the program when, lo and behold, his brain exploded the night before he could share it with his fellow scientists
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Faces (1968)
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Read more: Faces (1968)What most impressed me about Faces is that here you have a film with maybe ten scenes total. Yet its length is over two hours.
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Casablanca (1942)
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Read more: Casablanca (1942)Casablanca is a hornet’s nest of thieves and cutthroats, as one of my favorite characters, the pickpocket, says “Be careful, there are vultures, vultures everywhere,”
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
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Read more: The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)The Day the Earth Caught Fire opens with clichéd character Peter Stenning, a washed-up alcoholic reporter, in the middle of a desert city, London. Dust and sand claiming the buildings.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
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Read more: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)“Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever…” –Monte Walsh
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Shack Out on 101 (1955)
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Read more: Shack Out on 101 (1955)In 1955 the state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany officially ended. Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time, and Kermit the Frog was introduced to the world by the young Jim Henson. Yes, Kermit’s a Boomer.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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Read more: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)Here at Ruthless, we have and will never stop singing the praises of Robert Altman. He was and he remains Americas greatest director
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Black Narcissus (1947)
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Read more: Black Narcissus (1947)Underneath the habits, stoic facades, and judgmental sneers, nuns (especially of the Anglican variety) are coiled jungle cats of intoxicating lust…
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Written on the Wind (1956)
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Read more: Written on the Wind (1956)Sirk brings the immaculately overdone melodrama.