My Favorite Movies: Batman
I’ve been familiar with this movie all my life, and it’s still slippery. At the time of its release, it was greeted as the first cinematic adaptation of Batman to […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Double Feature: Bringing Up Baby and What’s Up, Doc?
Between 1938 and 1972, seismic cultural shifts took place in America. The speed of change was unprecedented, thanks in part to mass communication, including movies. But the movie industry was […]
Uh … 3 ½? — A Farewell to Arms
The Introduction After I graduated from college, my efforts to watch as many different movies as possible began in earnest. There are, naturally, many different paths a person can take […]
My 25 Favorite Movie Openings
“Beginnings are always difficult.” So says Herbert Marshall in the first scene of Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932). Endings can be extremely difficult to do well, but they’re easier to envision […]
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