the passionate moviegoer

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

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

gatsby/ghastly

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After having successfully mangled Shakespeare and the movie musical, Australia's One-Trick Wonder has set his sights on arguably the d...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

irony

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In his latest DVD column for The New York Times, the invaluable Dave Kehr details the recent output of Fox Cinema Archives, the one-year-...
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Sunday, May 05, 2013

déjà vu

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Baz Luhrman's new version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" runs 142 minutes. Jack Clayton's 1974 filmizati...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

that's my line!

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Something happened at George Sidney's wrap party for "Bye Bye Birdie" in 1962 that caused a roomful of jaws to drop, a raunc...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

sensually sinister

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In their enthusiastic reviews of Park Chan-wook's "Stoker," more than one critic has alluded to the film's Hitchcockian...
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