Bullitt

Advertisements This was my first full dive into Director Peter Yates’ late 60’s action movie Bullitt. Having seen the famous car chase a number of times, I felt Horsepower Month was the right time to finally get the full context of the 1968…

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Experimental Film: Maya Deren

Advertisements Experimental and avant-garde film is generally defined as being made outside of the film industry on an artisanal basis and disregarding and redefining the traditional structures of narrative film. Many experimental films involve arts from other disciplines such as painting, dance,…

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Yi Yi

Advertisements Yi Yi , or 一一, means “one by one” in Chinese. In writer/director Edward Yang’s 2000 slice-of-life drama, the story follows the Jiangs and their extended family. After one day, the matriarch of the family had mysteriously fallen unconscious, and the…

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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Advertisements What do you know about women?” That was the profound question asked of Martin Scorsese before he was hired to direct Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.  “Nothing,” Scorsese wisely answered.  “But I’m willing to learn.”  Released in 1974, between Mean Streets and…

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Mustang

Advertisements Five orphaned sisters, Lale (Günes Sensoy), Selma (Tugba Sunguroglu), Nur (Doga Zeynep Doguslu), Ece (Elit Iscan), and Sonay (Ilayda Akdogan) race down to the beach to frolic in the water with their male classmates now that school is out for the…

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Airplane!

Advertisements “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” was a line I’ve seen quoted a million times on the internet (along with many other jokes), but I have never seen this movie. It is high time I change that. War veteran…

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