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Movies by Title
12 Angry Men (1957)
13 Tzameti (2005)
39 Steps, The (1935)
42 (2013)
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Aftersun (2022)
Alan Partridge (2014)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Amadeus (1984)
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Applause (1929)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Bad Company (1972)
Bande à part (1964)
Bishop’s Wife, The (1947)
Bitter Stems, The (Los tallos amargos) (1956)
Black Swan (2010)
Black Vampire, The (El vampiro negro) (1953)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blue Valentine (2011)
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)
Bourne Identity, The (2002)
Breaking Point, The (1950)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brighter Summer Day, A (1991)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Broker (2022)
Builder, The (2010)
Bullitt (1968)
Captain Blood (1935)
Chinatown (1972)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Cleopatra (1934)
Cluny Brown (1946)
Cluny Brown (again) (1946)
Cocaine Bear (2023)
Cold in July (2014)
Contagion (2011)
Dead Kids (Strange Behavior) (1981)
Decision to Leave (2022)
Detour (1945)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Django Unchained (2012)
Doulos, Le (1962)
Dorado, El (1966)
Drive (2011)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Elephant 6 Recording Company, The (2022)
Enemy (2014)
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1972)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Getaway, The (1972)
Gold (1934)
Good, The Bad, The Weird, The (2008)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (First Viewing) (2003)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Second Viewing) (2003)
Goodbye, Franziska (Auf wiedersehn, Franziska!) (1941)
Goodbye Solo (2009)
Greased Lightning (1977)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Hardly a Criminal (Apenas un delincuente) (1949)
Hateful Eight, The (2015)
Heartbreak Kid, The (1972)
Hidden, The (1987)
High and the Mighty, The (1954)
Hit the Road (2022)
Hobson’s Choice (1954)
Hollywoodland (2006)
Hurt Locker, The (2008)
If I Should Die Before I Wake (Si Muero antes de despertar) (1952)
Inception (2010)
It Happened in Broad Daylight (Es geschah am hellichten Tag) (1958)
J. Edgar (2011)
Jetée, La (1962)
John Wick (2014)
Kiss Before Dying, A (1956)
Klute (1971)
Lair of the White Worm, The (1988)
Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)
Liberation of L. B. Jones, The (1970)
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Machete (2010)
Man from Planet X, The (1951)
Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950)
Marty (1953) (Philco Television Playhouse version)
Marty (1953), paired with,
Marty (1955)
Master, The (2012)
Melancholia (2011)
Metropolis (1927)
Miami Blues (1990)
Mid-August Lunch (2008)
Miles Ahead (2016)
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Miracle Worker, The (1962)
Moment by Moment (1978)
Moneyball (2011)
Mood Indigo (2014)
Moral (1928)
More the Merrier, The (1943)
Most Wanted Man, A (2014)
Mr. Arkadin (The Corinth Version) (1955)
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
My Sister Eileen (1942)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Night in May, A (Eine Nacht im Mai) (1938)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
North to Alaska (1960)
Notorious (1946)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
On the Bowery (1956)
One False Move (1992)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Opfergang (1944)
Ossessione (1943)
Otra, La (1945)
Paradine Case, The (1947)
Paul (2011)
Pina (2011)
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Public Enemies (2009)
Repeat Performance (1947)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Romance in a Minor Key (Romanze in Moll) (1943)
Room with a View, A (1985)
Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu) (1939)
Saint Omer (2022)
Salesman (1968)
Sans Soleil (1983)
Scarecrow (1973)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Shame (2011)
Shriek of the Mutilated (1974)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Skid Row (195?)
Social Network, The (2010)
Solaris (1972)
Some Came Running (1958)
Stalag 17 (1954)
Star Trek (2009)
Sting, The (1973)
Strange Behavior (Dead Kids) (1981)
Sugar (2009)
Suspect, The (1944)
Susperia (1977)
Sword of Doom, The (1966)
Tall T, The (1957)
Tár (2022)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Thin Blue Line, The (1988)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Thing, The (1982)
Three Musketeers, The (1948)
Titfield Thunderbolt, The (1953)
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Trainwreck (2015)
Trapped (1949)
Trial, The (1962)
True Grit (2010)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Tyson (2009)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Up (2009)
Vengeance is Mine (1984)
Walk Up (2022)
We Are the Best! (2014)
Wedding Night in the Rain (Hochzeitsnacht im Regen) (1967)
Weird (2022)
We Make Music (Wir machen Musik) (1942)
Wolfen (1981)
Women Talking (2022)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Wire, The (2002-2008)

Miscellaneous
2010 James River Film Festival
Adding Color to the Darkness: 70s Noir
Best of 2011
Bottomless Welles, The
“Christmas Present” by A. B.
Cinematic Pugilism: The Chaplin v. Keaton Debate
Conversations Real & Imagined: Earned Obsolescence (Cinema Slop)
Conversations Real & Imagined: The Last Picture Show-er
Conversations Real & Imagined: The Old Married Couple (Heights Theater)
Conversations Real & Imagined: The Wreck of Alvin Fitzsimmons
Curtain Call (Robert Altman)
Films I Wished I’d Watched with My Dad
Five Film Favorites: Felines!
Five Film Favorites: Forgotten Modern Noirs
Five Film Favorites: One and Done
Five Film Favorites: Poetry in Movies
Five Film Favorites: The Sweet Science of Bruising
Happiness Factor, The: My Top Ten (Actually Seventeen, really Eighteen) Favorite Movies
I Wish I Had Five Film Favorites for Meryl
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Where have the poor in movies gone?)
One Curmudgeon’s Opinion: The Ten Most Over-Rated Films of All-Time
Paul Newman Film Series
Pedro Almodovar: Man of La Mancha
Personal Appeal to Film Critic Roger Ebert, A
Prairie Home Companion Premiere: Hollywood Hit ‘n’ Run
Reading About the Movies
Remembering the Moviegoer (an obituary for Terry Blue)
Smoke and Mirrors (The James River Film Festival)
Tell That Story Again: Great Remakes
This Week’s Birthday: Bernard Herrmann
This Week’s Birthday: Faye Dunaway
This Week’s Birthday: Hal Needham
This Week’s Birthday: Jean Arthur
This Week’s Birthday: Joan Crawford
This Week’s Birthday: Michel Simon
This Week’s Birthday: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
This Week’s Birthday: Orson Welles, International Man of Mystery

This Week’s Birthday: Peter Lorre
This Week’s Birthday: Robert Ryan

This Week’s Birthday: Strother Martin
This Week’s Birthday: Terry O’Quinn
This Week’s Birthday: Thelma Ritter
This Week’s Birthday: Walt Disney
This Week’s Birthday: Warren Oates
Who’s the Driver? Who’s the Mechanic? A Post About Auteurs.
Wonderful, Incredible, Amazing and Often True Tales of Buster Keaton, The