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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967
An unapologetically 60s time capsule of the Americas, where Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn’s daughter (Katharine Houghton—her real life niece) brings home to San Francisco,* Sydney Poitier, 13 days after they meet in Hawaii. Guess what?! They’re madly in love and they’re to get married. Also, he’s black and she’s white. She’s willing to go all the way regardless of what her parents say; his ultimatum is that her parents have the final say.
William Rose who penned the screenplay,…
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die 1958
Sirk + Remarque = an interesting artistic marriage of two Germans who left their homeland to pursue their craft and had something to say about war and fascism 14 years from when this story is set.
A Time to Love and A Time to Die* is a harrowing drama of WWII via a German soldier. From the opening shot of the delicate pink cherry blossoms floating down to the ground, contrasted against the grey, barren wasteland foreshadows the entire film:…
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Bigger Than Life 1956
While Sirk was busy picking away the shiny veneer of American society—finding trouble in paradise—Ray deep dives into the picture perfect image of the 1950s American nuclear family and specifically the American man, buckling under conservative societal pressures. Mason plays an overworked school teacher/cab dispatcher in secret, who ends up addicted to cortisone (the 21st century viewer might just guffaw but okay). Taking the drug breaks the surface, exposing the ugliness underneath: the complacency of the period and how conservative…
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A Matter of Life and Death 1946
A post-WWII inter-dimensional fantasy,
inverted love story* between a British RAF and an American radio operator at the centre and circling it is some sort of discourse on wartime unity and improving Anglo-American relationships. Concurrently, the film gives a sense of hope and lightness to all those who have lost someone close to their hearts in the war.Suspend the disbelief and plausibility of simultaneous organised hallucinations and a legal trial between life and death in the afterlife—it’s a kooky…
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