the passionate moviegoer

a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies neglected and mostly misunderstood

Monday, April 28, 2008

mainstream, independent and misunderstood

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How could the critics in 1958 so misread Hitchcock's "Vertigo"? Well, the initial failure of "Vertigo," followed by ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

"Operation Mad Ball" Sighting

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It's Turner to the rescue. Richard Quine's delightfully anarchic and long-lost "Operation Mad Ball," the Jack Lemmon come...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

cinema obscura: Two Lost Lemmons

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Jack Lemmon, unfortunately, spent the first ten years of his film career as a contract player at Columbia Pictures which, of course, is now ...
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"Baby Mama" Makes Do-Do

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As good as a movie year that 2007 was, that's how disappointing 2008 has become. An in less than six months. An excellent case in point ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Judd Apatow's Dick Flicks

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I've been waiting around for the marketing guy - I assume it was a guy - who coined the loathsome expression, Chick Flick, to come up wi...
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