Showing posts with label films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label films. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

An History of Ancient Egypt

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An History of Ancient Egypt A Teaching Company Production Eight DVD set 48 lectures, 30 minutes each This is an excellent introduction ...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Three Films

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KWAIDAN: Kwaidan is a Japanese film with subtitles directed by Masaki Kobayashi.  The title comes from a collection of short Japanese tal...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Christie's novel--The Murder on the Orient Express--and the BBC Version with David Suchet

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Agatha Christie:  Murder on the Orient Express, the novel   Murder on the Orient Express ,  a BBC dramatization with David Suchet Murder o...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Murder on the Orient Express--Hollywood at what it does best

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I just finished a film version of Agatha Cristie's Murder on the Orient Express-- the 1974 version.  I'm not going to do a summary ...
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

My Dinner With Andre, a film

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My Dinner with Andre Last year I watched a remarkable film, The Man from Earth, an SF film without BEMs, spaceships, ray guns, space batt...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

Judex: a film

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Judex , a French language film Black-and-white, English subtitles Directed by Georges Franju 1963 The public library in Tucson publish...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Seconds and Faces and Masks

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Seconds Directed by John Frankenheimer Released in  1966 Cheryl, one of my frequent visitors here, suggested a resemblance between the...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Museum Hours: a film

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Museum Hours Written and directed by Jem Cohen   Released in 2013 107 minutes This is one of those special, quiet films that I thorough...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Some great DVDs viewed in 2013

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This will be a short list, mostly because I bought a new computer and lost most of my files during the changeover.  They are in no particula...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Not the Messiah. (He's a naughty boy)

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Not The Messiah is an oratorio based on The Life of Brian, and it celebrates the 40 years of Monty Python .   It was a magnificent performa...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Combination Plate 21

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Warning: I will discuss significant plot elements and some endings. Sea Wolves : a WWII film The Cheap Detective : a parody/satire? of film...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Some great films viewed in 2010

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This is not a list of the best films of 2010. In fact, many appeared long ago, and one is even a silent film. This is simply a list of the...