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The Battleship Potemkin
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 30 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.The Battleship Potemkin could be subtitled "A Story of the Sea." For while the men who...
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Bicycle Thieves
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 30 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image."Put the blame on Mame," sang the red-haired girl in the poster, the one that Antonio is...
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Breathless
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 30 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.Patricia is pregnant. Like the virgin mother-to-be in Hail Mary or the pop princess of...
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Casablanca
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 30 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.*Today I learned that a fellow blogger, who was an enthusiastic commenter on The Dancing...
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Citizen Kane
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 30 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. ("Casablanca" went up late yesterday, due to a scheduling snafu)I was ten when I watched...
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Memories, Dreams, and Reflections
A visual tribute to flashbacks & fantasies in Wild Strawberries...
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An Open Letter to Toontown
November 20, 2011Toontown City Council, c/o Cloverfield Development Co.Acme Avenue & Avery AlleyToontown, CA 90@#!Dear Toons,Well, gang, I just watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit again, this time for...
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City Lights
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image."Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is...
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The Decalogue
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.Like many films in this series (Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, and Fantasia all come to...
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La Dolce Vita
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.There aren't too many movies I've watched twice in the same day. I can, however, think of...
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.E.T. opens like a horror movie. What are we so afraid of? Aliens? People? Divorce? Growing...
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Fantasia
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.Fantasia is a film that proclaims its own greatness. What does that mean? That it opens...
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Wandering Across Europe
A visual tribute to Farewell to the Summer Light (1968)Farewell to the Summer Light appears at 5:15 in "There's Something Happening Here...", a chapter in my video series "32 Days of Movies."
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Bambi, book and movie
•The Story: One spring, a little fawn is born into a world of sunshine and flowers - but as the seasons pass, and the young deer comes of age, neither he nor the world around him will remain so...
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The General
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.I've heard that The General was essentially remade, straight, as a wartime chase film (I...
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The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.There is a case to be made that the first two Godfather films form the Great American...
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Grand Illusion
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.Just as Pauline Kael once noted it would be absurdly narrow to classify Grand Illusion as...
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It's a Wonderful Life
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.If there's a more American film than It's a Wonderful Life, and a more American hero than...
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Jules and Jim
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 15 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.Even fifty years later, there aren't too many films like Jules and Jim. It exists as...
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Farewell, My Lovely...
A visual tribute to Murder, My Sweet (1944)Murder, My Sweet appears at 5:50 in "Dreaming in Wartime", a chapter in my video series "32 Days of Movies."______________
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