Sunday, July 06, 2025

Les oliviers de la justice (1962)

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 English title: The Olive Trees of Justice. In the late 1950s, a man returns to his native Algeria to be beside his dying father. He remembe...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Cancel My Reservation (1972)

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 Second viewing; previously viewed on May 29, 2020. I decided to view this film again because I didn't understand some of the dialogue o...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

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 Second viewing; previously viewed on May 31, 1990. An orchestra conductor begins suspecting his wife of infidelity, after his brother-in-la...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Bean (1997)

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 Second viewing; first viewing with original audio; previously viewed, on a Portuguese-dubbed copy, on May 07, 2008. Here's my previous ...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

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Second viewing; previously viewed on April 14, 1996.  An ex-junkie just out of rehab plans to quit his card-dealing job and start a new life...

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

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Second viewing; previously viewed between 1983 and 1986. A cruise ship is hit by an underwater earthquake and goes down. A religious ministe...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

The Drowning Pool (1975)

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Second viewing; previously viewed between 1983 and 1986.  A private eye is hired by a woman who wants to know who is writing anonymous lette...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Superman (1978)

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 Second viewing; first viewing of the director's cut; previously viewed in 1979 (I think). An extraterrestrial is sent to Earth when his...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

The Go-Between (1971)

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Second viewing; previously viewed on December 29, 1988.  A 12-year-old boy goes to spend his summer vacation in the country house of a rich ...
Sunday, June 01, 2025

A King in New York (1957)

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Second viewing. Previously viewed on January 12, 1989. A deposed European king goes to live in the U.S., where he has trouble adapting to th...
Saturday, May 03, 2025

That Cold Day in the Park (1969)

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Second viewing; previously viewed between 1983 and 1986.  A lonely woman invites a stranger to her house, and develops erotic designs on him...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Day After the Fair (1986)

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 Based on the short story On the Western Circuit , by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. An illiterate girl who works as a servant to a ...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)

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 U.S. title: Any Number Can Win An ageing man is released from prison and plans to rob a seaside casino and then to retire. He partners with...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982)

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 Second viewing; previously viewed between 1983 and 1986. An intelligent extraterrestrial gets stranded on Earth and a little boy befriends ...