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la,la,la,la,la……. (not fa, la,la,la).
went to see this movie. waited outside for my friend to arrive. just then, a loud group of people came out, and one said to the others, ‘i cannot believe that ____________ happened! he ____________!...
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laying it all out on the table
on one of my thrice-weekly visits to the library, while milling around the film area, (one of my favorite things to do), i turned, and what should pop out, but the spine of a film sitting quietly on...
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the happy poet.
and yet again, a movie i’ve never heard of, begged me to take it off the shelves of my local library, and into my living room. ‘the happy poet’ is an indie-comedy, a classic tale of the underdog,...
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I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing. – Roger Waters
what do you get when you combine the 1980s, video arcades, the guinness book of world records, human drama, sabotage, corruption, power, cheating, trash-talking, genius, ego, and insanity? why, you...
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The poet is a madman lost in adventure. – Paul Verlaine
in memory of my father, a funny and gentle man who was about as far as you could get from a bad ass. but instead, he was just my dad who was a busy madman in the ad world during the week. but who i...
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once. again.
one of my all time favorites ‘once’ an indy film shot in ireland in just a few weeks for only 150,00 usd with real people and real music and love and heart and soul and the stars/musicians were...
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remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play. – franklin d. roosevelt
i love the casting call for the latest group of extras needed for a film being shot locally. though i don’t have the look of a sketchy male or a crack head , i could easily be a gawker or...
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heal.
i saw this incredibly moving canadian film the other day ‘monsieur lazhar’ released a few years back nominated for a foreign film academy award it was about a teacher and the humanity of love joy...
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trolls.
i’ve now seen this movie 3 times couldn’t get the grandies viewing schedules to mesh so we went in groups it was colorful, happy, and musical all felt and sparkles and big hair and eccentric...
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short.
we were an audience of six (including the organ player) at the beautiful michigan theatre where we saw some amazing short films thus proving once again that sometimes less is more. “if you have the...
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the red turtle.
saw this beautiful film yesterday very moving and mesmerizing drawn in mostly soft colors it captures the subtleties of nature, man, balance, human connections, family, impermanence, the circles...
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inconvenient.
after watching “an inconvenient sequel” on a hot summer night in ann arbor i was left absolutely chilled. — “a man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient,...
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my life as a zucchini.
there is so much strength and emotion packed into this 70 minute little film i am left not knowing exactly what to say. directed by claude bars a joint swiss/french stop-motion animation creation...
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flashdance.
35 years ago ‘flashdance’ was released and it emerged again recently in honor of international dance day i loved this movie had the shoes, the ripped up sweatshirt, the perm though my dancing style...
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the papermaker.
i have always had a great love of paper especially handmade each piece unique the feel, the smell, the beauty, the unlimited opportunities to decorate it, to write and draw and paint upon it, to fold...
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shared.
on the day before thanksgiving school was out kids had energy to burn so I borrowed the big car to round everyone up and enjoy an afternoon with two grandies four neighborhood friends and a lot of...
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light workout.
going to a movie theater counts as a light workout. count me in. — If your New Year’s resolution is to exercise more, your goal just got a lot easier. Sitting through a film at the cinema could be...
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the timeless power of poetry and love.
take a moment out of your day to be moved by this very short film...
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50 years of love and tears.
hard to believe it’s the 50th anniversary of this movie’s opening everyone i knew rushed to the theater swoon-worthy *ryan o’neal and beautiful ali macgraw over-emoted their way through it it was...
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a star is born.
yeti has always held a secret dream of co-starring in a judy garland film — “somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” -judy garland
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