I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 63:
Boyz N the Hood. John Singleton’s directorial debut is one of the best flicks of the 1990s. It’s also rapper/actor Ice Cube’s debut as an actor. Really trying to capture a time and a place, it does feel a little dated at times, but it’s still really good.
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I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 62:
Yojimbo. As mentioned earlier. Yojimbo is the film that Sergio Leone remade to get A Fistful of Dollars. This film is directed by Akira Kurosawa, the guy who directed the film from my earlier post, Ran. Since Kurosawa is one of the greatest directors of all time, he delivers here once again. The film also features the great Toshiro Mifune.
I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 61:
A Fistful of Dollars. The first film of Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name trilogy is one of the best westerns ever made. It features Clint Eastwood in one of the roles that would define him. It’s also important to note that this is a remake of a Japanese Kurosawa film called Yojimbo, which also is awesome. I’ll post a trailer for that tomorrow.
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I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 60:
Gilda. Starring Rita Hayworth and one of my underappreciated favorites, Glenn Ford. Gilda is a great old film noir flick. It also features Rita Hayworth’s famous hair flip (for lack of a better name) which I’ve seen in tons of Hollywood montages and you can see in the first few seconds of this trailer.
I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 59:
Artists and Models This is an old favorite that always seemed to be on TV all the time when I was a kid. In addition to just being a funny movie, it has the added appeal of being centered around comics and comic book artists.
Since this film is a comtemporary or near contemporary of Frederic Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent,” you can see similar views expressed by characters within the film. Of course, Wertham’s book and the resulting congressional investigation led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority, the comic world’s equivalent of the Hays code. The Comics Code Authority, in the name of protecting the children of America, retarded the development of the industry so much so that one will find it became wildly divergent in sophistication and popularity from its analogues in Japan and the European continent.
…But that’s more than you needed to know! Anyway, I couldn’t find a trailer so I just posted a clip of my favorite scene: The Bat-lady/Fat-lady scene.
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From The Root. Click here to read the entire article.
When Hattie McDaniel, the first African American ever nominated for an Academy Award, arrived at the Ambassador Hotel for the 1940 ceremony, she was seated at a table on the extreme periphery of the auditorium. McDaniel had been nominated for Best Supporting Actress based on her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind (1939). Though this seating assignment was quite insulting, such slights were not uncommon, as McDaniel had also been forced to miss the film’s Atlanta premiere due to southern Jim Crow laws. McDaniel would go on to win the Academy Award that evening in 1940, becoming the first African American to ever win the prestigious award. It would be 24 years before another African American would be declared an Oscar winner.
I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 58:
To Catch A Thief. Cary Grant costars with the most beautiful actress ever, Grace Kelly, in this Hitchcock romance. It’s gorgeous to look at, a lot of fun, and all in all a delightful outing.
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I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 57:
What’s up Tiger Lily. This movie is a great little wacky idea. It’s a Japanese spy movie that has been redubbed to become a comedy. Written by Woody Allen. The video below is his intro to the film and then the link beneath the video leads to the actual trailer.
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I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 56:
Sorcerer. Released in the wake of Star Wars, this film completely tanked at the box office. This probably had something to do with its weird title too. This film has nothing to do with magic or sorcerers. It’s the story of 4 men who are tasked to drive 2 trucks loaded with unstable nitroglycerin through a South American jungle. The highlight of the film is the crossing of a rope bridge, which apparently cost 1 million dollars to build for the sequence.
I decided I would post trailers of my favorite movies. One per post. Sorry in advance if the movies become broken because they’ll all be linked from youtube. Here’s day 55:
Willow. I watched this movie so many times as a child and I still like it. Directed by Ron Howard and produced by George Lucas, Willow is a sword and sorcery movie that is actually good, from a time (the 80s) when there were very few good ones. It’s got Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis, and Kevin Pollack.
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