With the spaghetti western-inspired Django Unchained drawing everybody’s attention, we thought that we’d share our selection of essential oaters from Italy for your consideration. Were we dead on, or did we miss the mark?
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Boomer Mill: Warner has lately reached into the ‘60s and ‘70s for a crop of controversial, oddball, and—what’s the term?—groovy movies for your enjoyment. A Covenant with Death (1966) Having a Wild Weekend (1965) The Chapman Report (1962) The Cool Ones (1967)
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When Paddy Chayefsky wrote his Oscar-winning screenplay for Network (1976) it was supposed to be satirical. Lensed through the 1976 eye I’m sure audiences found an opinion-spouting news anchor and a network devoted to developing reality-based programming as absurd. To…
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Apocalypse Now has always been preceded by the legendary stories of its troubled production, one of those cursed film enterprises (The Exorcist is another) whose backstories are almost as entertaining as the final product itself : in this case, weathering…
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Guest blogger Rick 29 writes: The popularity of Blaxploitation films had already begun to wane by 1974, just three brief years after Shaft made a box office splash. The genre needed a kick and producer Fred Weintraub hoped to provide that–literally–with…
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I grew up in a small central Illinois town with no movie theater. So, as a kid with five older siblings, going to the movies was a rare treat, as it was nearly impossible for my parents to logistically corral…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Steven Spielberg’s Duel from 1971, which originally appeared our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might have…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Halloween from 1978, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more…
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