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Tag Archives: James Stewart
The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch The formula is pure Hollywood. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl are separated by comic misunderstanding, and the audience waits for the two to reconcile. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, film, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, movies, romance, The Shop Around the Corner, TSPDT
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My Favorite (Depressing) Christmas Movies
If gingerbread cookies and home-knit sweaters have got you feeling all warm inside, here are three holiday classics guaranteed to have your soul feeling as cold and empty as the windy, lifeless snowscape outside. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. … Continue reading
John Wayne, Colonel Blimp and War Crimes
Two John Ford films and one Michael Powell flick ask the question – the bad guys don’t play nice, so why should the good guys? Continue reading
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Tagged Boer Wars, Britain, Colonel Blimp, counterinsurgency, Dresden, ethics, genocide, holocaust, James Stewart, John Ford, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Michael Powell, movies, My Darling Clementine, politics, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, TSPDT, war, war crimes, WikiLeaks, World War II
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