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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Dead presidents (1995, USA)
There are twoimages and sequences that made “Dead Presidents” memorable. I will probably remember those even, when/if I forget the rest of it. How the picture of a teenager who is running around and jumping fences in the backyards of … Continue reading
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Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004)
If you have short attention span and enjoy focused writing, unembellished style, action oriented script then avoid Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. However if you have the time and patience for long winded, old style storytelling that deals … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day (2010, USA)
Wow, I never thought of myself as a kind of person who would watch a movie titled “Valentine’s Day” on Valentine’s Day itself. (Not that I have any vague idea what “kind” of person would do this.) But that’s exactly … Continue reading
Bellamy: Looking Backward (1888)
I am not even apologetic any more that I have been immunized against socialist rhetoric. If your formative years were during the declining end of the communist era in Eastern Europe, like I was, you would have been too. The … Continue reading
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(Horror of) Dracula (1958, UK)
IMDB and the Guardian lists the 1958 British adaptation of the Bram Stoker‘s book as “Dracula” only, but the DVD and the credits show it as “Horror of Dracula“. The blood opening credits end though with the name etched in … Continue reading