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12 Angry Men
Read more: 12 Angry MenIn movie jargon, the words “classic” and “masterpiece” are accolades that are tossed around quite a bit. Sometimes they are well deserved, sometimes not, and often the status is indeterminate. In the case of 12 Angry Men, there is no reasonable doubt at all about the verdict. This classic is a masterpiece and one of…
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Matters of Survival: A Note on In a Lonely Place & Bigger Than Life
Read more: Matters of Survival: A Note on In a Lonely Place & Bigger Than LifeIn a Lonely Place (1950) and Bigger Than Life (1956), two of Nicholas Ray’s finest films, are about two men made to feel “ten feet tall” in order to survive. For Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) in Place, it happens in a war; World War II, to be precise. For Ed Avery (James Mason) in Life,…
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The Legacy Of Silent Film
Read more: The Legacy Of Silent FilmWhen Louis and Auguste Lumiere first showed their short film The Arrival of a Train in 1895, they certainly had no inkling that, almost a hundred years later, it would be the film-within-a-film in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Nor could Carl Theodor Dreyer have suspected that his 1928 feature The…
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Period Of Adjustment
Read more: Period Of AdjustmentTennessee Williams is undoubtedly best known for A Streetcar Named Desire and other Southern tragedies like The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His is not a name that many would associate with warm, often comedic Christmas movies like those of, say, John Hughes, Chris Columbus, or even Frank Capra. Still, his…
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The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
In category (ies) : Christmas Movie Reviews, Classics & Hitchcock, Featured Posts, Features, Movies, ReviewsRead more: The Bishop’s Wife (1947)There are many examples in cinema history of iconic movie roles originally being intended for very different actors than those who ended up playing them, from Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey as the original would-be stars of the Bad Boys franchise to Will Smith and Val Kilmer in the roles of Neo and Morpheus in…
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We’re No Angels (1955)
In category (ies) : Christmas Movie Reviews, Classics & Hitchcock, Featured Posts, Features, Movies, ReviewsRead more: We’re No Angels (1955)Here at Ruthless we love our readers, especially when they give us suggestions about great movies to review. We’re No Angels is a light-hearted and unusual Christmas type movie staring the iconic Humphrey Bogart. O.K., it wasn’t a great movie as such, but considering that the film is 65 years old, it holds up quite…
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Loving the Bomb: Technology & Conquest in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Read more: Loving the Bomb: Technology & Conquest in the Films of Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was undeniably one of the most brilliant and innovative motion picture directors of all time. His meticulously crafted works have influenced innumerable filmmakers all over the world, from Steven Spielberg to Gaspar Noe. Obviously, entire books have been written about Kubrick’s oeuvre, so let us focus here on the peak of his…
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The Law
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Midnight Cowboy
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Dodes’Ka-Den
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Our Man in Havana
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Simon of the Desert
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Cat People (1942 Val Lewton)
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Repulsion (1965)
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Nothing Sacred
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Design For Living
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Becket
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There was a Father (1942)
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Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
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Coup de Torchon: Clean Slate (1981)
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Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
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The Big Heat (1953)
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Hobson’s Choice (1954)
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Le Doiulous: The Informer (1962)
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Danton (1983)
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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Moon Tide (1942)
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Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
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The Bad Seed
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Playtime (1967)
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Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)