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Watched John Huston's 1948 Film "The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre"
December 05, 2011
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
--Gold Hat (as played by Alfonso Bedoya)
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Watched Billy Wilder's 1944 Noir Film "Double Indemnity"
November 14, 2011
Watched John Ford's 1940 Drama "The Grapes Of Wrath"
November 07, 2011
"Sure don't look none too prosperous."
--Tom Joad as played by Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
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Watched Frank Capra's 1939 Drama "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"
October 24, 2011
"And you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others."
--James Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
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Watched John Schlesinger's 1969 Drama "Midnight Cowboy"
September 30, 2011
"Uh, well, sir, I ain't a f'real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud!"
--Jon Voight as Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy
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Watched Elia Kazan's 1951 Drama "A Streetcar Named Desire"
September 11, 2011
Watched Charlie Chaplin's 1925 Silent Film The Gold Rush
August 31, 2011
Watched John Huston's 1941 Film "The Maltese Falcon"
August 22, 2011
"In 1539 the Knight Templars of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon encrusted from beak to claw with rarest jewels——but pirates seized the galley carrying this priceless token and the fate of the Maltese Falcon remains a mystery to this day——"
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Watched Spike Lee's 1989 Film "Do The Right Thing"
August 15, 2011
Da Mayor: Doctor...
Mookie: C'mon, what. What?
Da Mayor: Always do the right thing.
Mookie: That's it?
Da Mayor: That's it.
Mookie: I got it, I'm gone.
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Watched Arthur Penn's 1967 Film "Bonnie And Clyde"
August 08, 2011
"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks."
--Clyde Barrow (as played by Warren Beatty)
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Watched Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman's 1927 Film "The General"
August 01, 2011
“I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”
--Buster Keaton
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Watched Woody Allen's 1977 Romantic Comedy "Annie Hall"
July 22, 2011
"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."
--Alvy Singer (as played by Woody Allen)
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Watched John Huston's 1952 Adventure Drama "The African Queen"
July 11, 2011
"Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"
--Charlie Allnut as played by Humphrey Bogart
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Watched Billy Wilder's 1959 Comedy "Some Like It Hot"
July 07, 2011
"Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz?"
"Yeah. Real hot."
"l guess some like it hot."
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Watched Joseph Mankiewicz's 1950 Drama "All About Eve"
June 27, 2011
“Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!”
--Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve
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Watched Mike Nichols's 1967 Film "The Graduate"
June 19, 2011
“It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.”
--Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate
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Watched Sidney Lumet's 1976 Satire "Network"
June 02, 2011
“Listen to me: Television is not the truth! Television is a God-damned amusement park! Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, side-show freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!”
--Peter Finch as Howard Beale
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Watched Fred Zinneman's 1952 Western "High Noon"
May 23, 2011
"People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care."
--Martin Howe, The Judge
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Watched Billy Wilder's 1950 Film "Sunset Boulevard"
May 16, 2011
"There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five."
--Joe Gillis
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Watched Martin Scorcese's 1976 Drama "Taxi Driver"
May 07, 2011
"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the f#!k do you think you're talking to?"
--Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle
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Watched Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Thriller "Psycho"
April 25, 2011
Watched John Ford's 1956 Classic Western "The Searchers"
April 20, 2011
Watched Leo McCarey's 1933 Marx Brothers Comedy "Duck Soup"
April 11, 2011
"Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life." -- Groucho Marx
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Watched Mel Brooks's 1968 Comedy "The Producers"
April 06, 2011
Watched Steven Spielberg's 1993 Film "Schindler's List"
March 27, 2011
“This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.”
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Watched Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Classic "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb"
March 21, 2011
Dr. Strangelove, #39 in the AFI 100, is a dark comedy about a nuclear war scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.
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Watched Roman Polanski's 1974 Classic "Chinatown"
March 14, 2011
Having just watched “Rango” recently, I felt inspired to watch “Chinatown”. The two films share more than a few similarities in plot.
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Watched Steven Spielberg's 1975 Classic "Jaws"
March 07, 2011
Watched Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 Masterpiece "Vertigo"
February 24, 2011
Although I’ve seen quite a few “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” episodes on syndicated television as a kid, I feel guilty the only Alfred Hitchcock film I had seen is “Rear Window”.
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Watched Elia Kazan's 1954 Classic "On The Waterfront"
February 09, 2011
Last week, we watched “Raging Bull”, and in that movie, Robert De Niro (as Jake LaMotta) recites some lines from tonight’s film. We continued the AFI 100 with #19, “On The Waterfront”.
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Watched Martin Scorsese’s 1980 Classic "Raging Bull"
January 31, 2011
Today we moved onto the next film selection from the AFI 100, J and I had some guests over (K, A, and F) to watch Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull”. This movie is a biopic about the life of former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta. It’s based on his autobiography, Raging Bull: My Life.
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Watched The 1952 Classic Film "Singin' In The Rain"
January 24, 2011
“Singin’ In The Rain” is a classic comedy musical directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. It stars Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor. This movie is about a movie studio that has to adapt to the transition from silent films to talking pictures.
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Watched the Classic Film "Casablanca"
January 10, 2011
Continuing my series on the AFI 100, I watched the 1943 classic Casablanca. Unlike my post about Gone With The Wind, I am happy to report that this will not be a post in which I’ll be criticizing a well-loved piece of American cinema. This is a special film, and the Blu-ray transfer did not disappoint.
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Watched the Classic Film “Gone With the Wind”
January 03, 2011
With the goal of watching the entire AFI 100 list, J and I decided to watch the classic movie Gone With the Wind. Clocking in at 3 hours and 44 minutes, this film felt like a huge undertaking to watch. It does have a lengthy overture and intermission.
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