THE MOVIE PROJECTOR was the result of a five-year long project to write regularly about a subject that has long fascinated me and continues to be my main interest: the movies. Between 2008 and ...
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**** COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: MITCHELL LEISEN In the late thirties and early forties, Billy Wilder and his writing partner Charles Brackett seem to have turned for inspiration time and again to ...
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**** COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: RAOUL WALSH At the peak of his popularity in the 1930s as one of the biggest stars at Warner Bros., James Cagney didn't think much of most of the films—sometimes ...
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The James Cagney Blogathon, hosted by The Movie Projector, begins Monday, April 8 and runs through Friday, April 12. Twenty-nine bloggers will be writing on a range of topics and films. For a...
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As a follow-up to last week's post on my favorite classic foreign actors , this week I present my 10 favorite classic foreign film actresses. As before, they're listed in alphabetical order. A si...
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Ever since my first exposure in college film courses to the classics of foreign cinema, I've loved these movies. In the last few years I've made a conscious effort to fill in some of the gaps in ...
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***½ COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: MICHAEL CURTIZ "His screen career was noir-ish from the word go," Andrew Sarris writes of John Garfield and the doomed character he played in his first movie, Four...
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**** COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: HOWARD HAWKS When the Classic Movie Blog Association announced that the topic of their February blogathon would be the Fabulous Films of the 1940s, I knew almost im...
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1969 BEST PICTURE The Winner: Midnight Cowboy My Pick: Midnight Cowboy BEST DIRECTOR The Winner: John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy My Pick: John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy BEST...
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1967 BEST PICTURE The Winner: In the Heat of the Night My Pick: Bonnie and Clyde BEST DIRECTOR The Winner: Mike Nichols, The Graduate My Pick: Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde BEST ACT...
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With the Academy Award nominations for 2012 announced last week, it seems a good time to resume my look back at Oscar races of the past. This is something I've been doing this time of year for ...
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***½ COUNTRY: RUSSIA DIRECTOR: MIKHAIL KALATOZOV A few years ago, when I was trying to catch up on some of the important foreign language films of the 1950s and 1960s that I had never seen...
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PAULINE KAEL I just finished reading the 2011 biography of Pauline Kael, Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, by Brian Kellow. Kael was one of the first critics I read regularly when I first star...
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**** COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: PRESTON STURGES When making out my ballot for the Comedy Countdown at Wonders in the Dark, the biggest dilemma I faced was deciding just what was a comedy and what w...
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**** COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: GREGORY LA CAVA "All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people," millionaire Alexander Bullock (Eugene Pallette) remarks to a friend...
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*** COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: RICHARD WALLACE Whatever screwball comedy is—and there is nearly as much uncertainty about its definition as there is about film noir—it was the dominant strain ...
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**** COUNTRY: FRANCE-ITALY-SPAIN DIRECTOR: LUIS BUÑUEL What the hell do you write about a movie directed by Luis Buñuel? His films don't deal in a direct way with social, political, or ethi...
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***½ COUNTRY: FRANCE DIRECTOR: GEORGES FRANJU Note: This post was originally published in 2010 and is one of the most popular posts ever at THE MOVIE PROJECTOR. When I was in high school, o...
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*** COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: MARK ROBSON Several months ago I wrote about Marlon Brando's first film, The Men (1950) , a picture about a paraplegic World War II veteran and the problems he face...
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***½ COUNTRY: UK DIRECTOR: MARTIN RITT A few weeks ago I wrote about The Ipcress File , one of the finest of the Cold War spy films of the 1960s. Just months after that film was released, an...
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**** Country: US Director: Charles Chaplin When in the late 1920's the entire film industry raced to embrace the addition of sound to movies, one notable film artist, Charles Chaplin, resist...
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***½ Country: UK Director: Sidney J. Furie The success of the first James Bond films in the early 1960s spurred the creation of what amounted to a new genre—the Cold War spy movie. Within a ...
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***½ COUNTRY: US DIRECTOR: FRANK CAPRA It Happened One Night (1934) is often considered director Frank Capra's breakout film. Yet it could be argued that Lady for a Day, made one year earlier,...
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**** Country: US Director: Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly "What could happen to you in one day?" asks a longshoreman of three high-spirited sailors setting off on twenty-four hours' shore leave in Ne...
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***½ Country: UK Director: Alexander Korda During the Second World War, few films with a contemporary setting were made that didn't deal in one way or another with the war and its effects. The...
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