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Random Acts of Cinema

Dec 27, 2021

It turns out that well-regarded film preservationist and historian Martin Scorsese also makes movies!  And you know what? Some of them are surprisingly good.  And he made this one with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci (of all people) about the troubled life of boxer Jake La Matta.  It’s a sports movie!

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Dec 20, 2021

Hee haw!  It’s time to cash in with a guaranteed shot at commercial appeal with a Christmas classic!  But can Frank Capra and James Stewart’s heartstring-tugging piece of nostalgia-driven  Americana break through our icy-cold critical defenses?  This holiday-feast-sized episode might just surprise you.

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Dec 13, 2021

Come to think of it, we actually did watch an unofficial “snowy mining trilogy” with last week’s McCabe & Mrs. Millerand Gold Rush. Because we ended up watching both the original 1925 version of Charles Chaplin’s groundbreaking silent adventure AND the 1942 talkie re-release. Thank goodness.
 
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Dec 6, 2021

… [mumble]… [murmur]… robert… [murmur]… altman… [mumble]… [glasses clinking]… [distant laughter]… brothel… [fiddle tuning] western… beatty… [mumble]… christie… [door creaking]… snowy mining town…

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