Brooklyn-based movie buff, mid/late 40s, prefer movies about lawyers and the Starship Enterprise to movies about gladiators.
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Conclave 2024
Not currently ranked on the IMDb list of the Top 250 movies.
CONCLAVE is great fun. Ralph Fiennes plays the Dean of the College of Cardinals in the Vatican, charged with running the Conclave of Cardinals that will elect a new Pope, after the film's fictional Pope (who seems to have much in common with the current Pope Francis) has died. Many factions vie for their candidate to win the conclave: a racist arch-conservative Italian, a homophobic Nigerian, and a…
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The Music Man 1962
Not currently ranked on the IMDb Top 250 (but why not?).
The great thing about being parent to a theater kid is that some days your kid gets home from a full day's Saturday cast rehearsal for her high school musical and announces, "We need to watch THE MUSIC MAN tonight". It's been about 45 years since my parents first showed me this movie, and played the original Broadway cast soundtrack on audio cassette on long car rides to visit…
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Thunder Road 1958
I watched this because of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "The Prime Mover", which reuses the footage spectacular climactic car crash. The movie itself (which otherwise bears no relation to the plot of the TZ episode) almost certainly had to be an influence on Mario Puzo when he set out to write the money-grabbing book that became "The Godfather". Close-knit crime family trying to keep their ancestral way of life alive (here Irish immigrants rather than Italian) while a larger…
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The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
Currently ranked #225 on the IMDb Top 250.
Roger Ebert once wrote "You cannot know the history of silent film unless you know the face of Renée Maria Falconetti". The 82-minute version of the movie is made up at least 50% of close-ups of Falconetti's face, without makeup, shot in a mock-up medieval castle. A condensed version of the real-life trial of Joan of Arc (what happened over 18 months here happens in a single day), and while Falconetti was…
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