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"Bleu begins with Julie (Juliette Binoche), being the only survivor of a tragic car wreck that kills her husband and five-year-old daughter. She is injured, but survives, in body, at least. In her soul, she closes down entirely, deciding to live her life with no connections, she doesn’t want to own anything, or make new memories. The only person she still sees is her mother, in a care home, whose dementia means that she rarely knows who Julie is anyway..." Movies And Series, Movies And Tv Shows, Tv Series, Movie List, Movie Tv, Movie Shelf, Classic Posters, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Berlin Festival

Movies And Series

Movies And Tv Shows

Classic Posters

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Berlin Festival

"Bleu begins with Julie (Juliette Binoche), being the only survivor of a tragic car wreck that kills her husband and five-year-old daughter. She is injured, but survives, in body, at least. In her soul, she closes down entirely, deciding to live her life with no connections, she doesn’t want to own anything, or make new memories. The only person she still sees is her mother, in a care home, whose dementia means that she rarely knows who Julie is anyway..."

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"Three years after the success of The Awful Truth, Irene Dunne & Cary Grant were paired again in another screwball comedy produced and co-written by that first film’s director, Leo McCarey. This reunion leans heavily – and I do mean heavily – on the foundation laid by its predecessor. Though the names are different, the lead characters are essentially the same..." Movie Club, Film Movie, Classic Movie Posters, Film Posters, The Awful Truth, Randolph Scott, Irene Dunne, Vintage Hollywood, Classic Hollywood

Classic Movie Posters

The Awful Truth

Vintage Hollywood

Classic Hollywood

"Three years after the success of The Awful Truth, Irene Dunne & Cary Grant were paired again in another screwball comedy produced and co-written by that first film’s director, Leo McCarey. This reunion leans heavily – and I do mean heavily – on the foundation laid by its predecessor. Though the names are different, the lead characters are essentially the same..."

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Secret Movie Club

"I recently went to see Marq Evans’ documentary Claydream not knowing much about it, it was a whim based on my love of stop-motion. It tells the story of Will Vinton, one of the pioneers of claymation. I had heard Vinton’s name mentioned before, but knew nothing of him. While watching the film I was fascinated by his story, his techniques, and the persistence of his spirit." Movie Lover, Marq, Vinton, Band Of Outsiders, Candor, Tv Ads, Riveting, Tv Commercials

Band Of Outsiders

"I recently went to see Marq Evans’ documentary Claydream not knowing much about it, it was a whim based on my love of stop-motion. It tells the story of Will Vinton, one of the pioneers of claymation. I had heard Vinton’s name mentioned before, but knew nothing of him. While watching the film I was fascinated by his story, his techniques, and the persistence of his spirit."

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Opening Credits

Lady And The Tramp

"We all have the Disney movies that belong to us, that are our own Disney movies that were new when we were kids. Of course, before video and streaming there were re-releases, but the ones that truly belonged to us were the brand new ones. Not to mention the fact that there usually were record albums that contained the story as well as the songs. Disney always knew how to catch us young."

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Secret Movie Club

"In the four-year span from 1937 to '41, Irene Dunne & Cary Grant co-starred in three different films, from two different studios, and three different directors. Two comedies and one difficult to classify melodrama/tragedy/romance. Though they’d already had, and would continue to have, widely-acclaimed and popular success on their own – Dunne with Love Affair and I Remember Mama, Cary Grant with, well, being Cary Grant – there is a particular kind of crackle between them in these three films..." Golden Age Of Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Vanity, Hollywood Legends, Cary Grant, Olivia Wilde, Brad Pitt

Golden Age Of Hollywood

Hollywood Stars

Hollywood Vanity

Hollywood Legends

"In the four-year span from 1937 to '41, Irene Dunne & Cary Grant co-starred in three different films, from two different studios, and three different directors. Two comedies and one difficult to classify melodrama/tragedy/romance. Though they’d already had, and would continue to have, widely-acclaimed and popular success on their own – Dunne with Love Affair and I Remember Mama, Cary Grant with, well, being Cary Grant – there is a particular kind of crackle between them in these three films..."

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Secret Movie Club

"Emily the Criminal is the story of Emily, no surprise there, played by Aubrey Plaza. She doesn’t start out the movie as a criminal, she is just an underemployed young woman with a massive amount of student loan debt, unable to get a better job due to a felony conviction in her past." New Movies, Movies To Watch, Movies Online, Movies Free, Latest Movies, Theo Rossi

Movies To Watch

"Emily the Criminal is the story of Emily, no surprise there, played by Aubrey Plaza. She doesn’t start out the movie as a criminal, she is just an underemployed young woman with a massive amount of student loan debt, unable to get a better job due to a felony conviction in her past."

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Secret Movie Club

"It's remarkable then that 1998’s Next Stop Wonderland somehow manages to be both genuinely romantic and comedic with multi-dimensional lead characters in an original story that surprises while remaining firmly ensconced within a traditional Romantic Comedy architecture. Incredible? Impossible? Unrealistic? Indubitably! But as is true in any film of the genre those obstacles disintegrate in the face of true love and, I have to admit, I truly love this movie…" Iconic Movie Posters, Movie Posters Vintage, Iconic Movies, Vintage Movies, 1990s Movies, All Movies

Iconic Movie Posters

Movie Posters Vintage

"It's remarkable then that 1998’s Next Stop Wonderland somehow manages to be both genuinely romantic and comedic with multi-dimensional lead characters in an original story that surprises while remaining firmly ensconced within a traditional Romantic Comedy architecture. Incredible? Impossible? Unrealistic? Indubitably! But as is true in any film of the genre those obstacles disintegrate in the face of true love and, I have to admit, I truly love this movie…"

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Secret Movie Club

"While the summer season is coming to an end, it’s often known as a time of big loud blockbusters, but it’s also a time of sleepers that surprise you, and you share with friends. Since I normally write about one movie, I’ve decided to write about two that I recently saw, and would love to turn people on to." Kino International, International Film Festival, Laura Lee, Warwick Davis, Grade School Teacher, Call My Agent, Dvd

Kino International

International Film Festival

Grade School Teacher

"While the summer season is coming to an end, it’s often known as a time of big loud blockbusters, but it’s also a time of sleepers that surprise you, and you share with friends. Since I normally write about one movie, I’ve decided to write about two that I recently saw, and would love to turn people on to."

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Secret Movie Club

"Bodies Bodies Bodies is a reasonably fun little horror film with a good amount of laughs. It’s not bad at all, but neither is it entirely great. It’s a base hit…" #cinema #movies #film #movienight #cinephile #secretmovieclub #moviecommunity #blog #filmwriting #filmblog #essay #review #bodiesbodiesbodies #horror Lee Pace, Marcel The Shell, Sam Reid, Tom Wlaschiha, The Walking Dead, Robert Englund, Michelle Yeoh, Charli Xcx, Saturday Night Live

Marcel The Shell

The Walking Dead

Saturday Night Live

"Bodies Bodies Bodies is a reasonably fun little horror film with a good amount of laughs. It’s not bad at all, but neither is it entirely great. It’s a base hit…" #cinema #movies #film #movienight #cinephile #secretmovieclub #moviecommunity #blog #filmwriting #filmblog #essay #review #bodiesbodiesbodies #horror

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Secret Movie Club

"Because a person’s history can’t be contained in their high highs and low lows, an accurate life story has to include countless digressions into the ordinary, off-topic, and non-narratively dependent. Happily, all of these are included among the eponymous thirty-two short films." Visual Metaphor, Thirty Two, Gould, Short Films, Time Magazine, Prodigy, High & Low, Still Image

Visual Metaphor

"Because a person’s history can’t be contained in their high highs and low lows, an accurate life story has to include countless digressions into the ordinary, off-topic, and non-narratively dependent. Happily, all of these are included among the eponymous thirty-two short films."

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Secret Movie Club

"Francis Ford Coppola once said (echoing someone else who very well may have been parroting an even earlier source) that you don’t really know if a movie is good or not for about 10 years. If people are still talking, watching, debating, enjoying the movie 10 years on, it’s a pretty good bet there’s something interesting going on…" Robert Graysmith, Shot By Shot, Zodiac Killer, Lawrence Of Arabia, David Fincher, Francis Ford Coppola, San Francisco Chronicle, Making A Movie

Robert Graysmith

Lawrence Of Arabia

Francis Ford Coppola

San Francisco Chronicle

"Francis Ford Coppola once said (echoing someone else who very well may have been parroting an even earlier source) that you don’t really know if a movie is good or not for about 10 years. If people are still talking, watching, debating, enjoying the movie 10 years on, it’s a pretty good bet there’s something interesting going on…"

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Secret Movie Club

"Unlike some of these movies, where you see the trailers one million times until you get sick of them, I saw the trailer for Vengeance one single solitary time, but that was all I needed, because it definitely looked like my kind of movie. It looked great, but ended up being way better than I expected! The best of all possible outcomes…" Ashton Kutcher, Apple Tv, No Manches Frida, Texas Quotes, Jason Blum, Boyd Holbrook, Issa Rae

No Manches Frida

"Unlike some of these movies, where you see the trailers one million times until you get sick of them, I saw the trailer for Vengeance one single solitary time, but that was all I needed, because it definitely looked like my kind of movie. It looked great, but ended up being way better than I expected! The best of all possible outcomes…"

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Secret Movie Club

"Yes, this is a story about a (punk) rock band, based on an autobiographical graphic novel by the writer/director’s wife, Coco Moodysson, but by all accounts, it is a loose adaption and probably more fiction than not. We Are the Best! covers about a year in the lives of three early-1980s Stockholm thirteen-year-old girls who form a band despite only one of them knowing how to play an instrument. This is my favorite movie." Magnolia Pictures, Alex Winter, Glitch In The Matrix, Comic Book Writer, Inspirational Movies, Vs The World, Foreign Film, I Love My Dad

Magnolia Pictures

Glitch In The Matrix

Comic Book Writer

Inspirational Movies

"Yes, this is a story about a (punk) rock band, based on an autobiographical graphic novel by the writer/director’s wife, Coco Moodysson, but by all accounts, it is a loose adaption and probably more fiction than not. We Are the Best! covers about a year in the lives of three early-1980s Stockholm thirteen-year-old girls who form a band despite only one of them knowing how to play an instrument. This is my favorite movie."

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Secret Movie Club

"One of the things we’re focusing on is actually returning to our three month seasons. So we’re in the process of confirming most of the titles we’ll show from October to December. I always liked programming a season. There’s a different feeling when you can see a lineup for three months. Like the ebb and flow of the ocean tide. You can see series come and go and how they comment, interact, dialogue with each other." R Movie, Movie Theater, Martin Scorsese, New York Movie, Amblin Entertainment, Hitchcock Film

Martin Scorsese

Amblin Entertainment

"One of the things we’re focusing on is actually returning to our three month seasons. So we’re in the process of confirming most of the titles we’ll show from October to December. I always liked programming a season. There’s a different feeling when you can see a lineup for three months. Like the ebb and flow of the ocean tide. You can see series come and go and how they comment, interact, dialogue with each other."

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Secret Movie Club

"I was listening to a movie review podcast and they were mentioning some recent independent films that they hadn’t had time to see yet, one being Neptune Frost, described as a sci-fi musical. I was immediately intrigued. Later that day I was looking to see if anything interesting was playing at the American Cinematheque, and there it was, Neptune Frost, that very night at 10p! Clearly, it was kismet." Could Ve, Fortnight, Independent Films, Saul, Ways Of Seeing, Preacher, Girl Names, Big Screen

Independent Films

"I was listening to a movie review podcast and they were mentioning some recent independent films that they hadn’t had time to see yet, one being Neptune Frost, described as a sci-fi musical. I was immediately intrigued. Later that day I was looking to see if anything interesting was playing at the American Cinematheque, and there it was, Neptune Frost, that very night at 10p! Clearly, it was kismet."

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Secret Movie Club

"There are, of course, literally hundreds of music documentaries out there with their own well-worn cliches and WATFS is no outlier there. It ticks all the boxes: the band forms, loses members, gains members, finds it’s sound, lots of rock and roll hero stories, missed opportunities, breakthrough, and eventual success..." The Rock Biography, Biography Film, Music Documentaries, Free Shows, Outlier, Twisted Sister, Glam Metal, Ticks

The Rock Biography

Music Documentaries

"There are, of course, literally hundreds of music documentaries out there with their own well-worn cliches and WATFS is no outlier there. It ticks all the boxes: the band forms, loses members, gains members, finds it’s sound, lots of rock and roll hero stories, missed opportunities, breakthrough, and eventual success..."

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Secret Movie Club

"One of the problems a film programmer runs into again and again these days (though thankfully not as often as you would think) is how to handle problematic films and filmmakers..." Scarlett O'hara, Clark Gable, Movie Posters For Sale, Posters Art Prints, Poster Art, Movie Prints, Rhett Butler, Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'hara

Movie Posters For Sale

Posters Art Prints

Margaret Mitchell

"One of the problems a film programmer runs into again and again these days (though thankfully not as often as you would think) is how to handle problematic films and filmmakers..."

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Secret Movie Club

"When I saw the poster for Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, I immediately knew that this was a film I wanted to see. It turns out I was completely right, and I rather wish I hadn’t seen the trailer, which gives away too much. On the other hand, it’s not exactly the kind of film where you don’t know right from the start whether the cleaning woman who wants a Dior gown is going to end up with a Dior gown, so it’s hard to spoil..." Movie Nerd, Dog Movies, Movie Blog, Netflix Movies, Tampa Theatre, Paris Movie, National Grandparents Day

National Grandparents Day

"When I saw the poster for Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, I immediately knew that this was a film I wanted to see. It turns out I was completely right, and I rather wish I hadn’t seen the trailer, which gives away too much. On the other hand, it’s not exactly the kind of film where you don’t know right from the start whether the cleaning woman who wants a Dior gown is going to end up with a Dior gown, so it’s hard to spoil..."

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Secret Movie Club

"On the surface, Her Smell bears many of the same rock biography hallmarks that I railed against in last week’s introductory screed but there are significant variations in this film to elevate it above the irritatingly predictable “biopic” template. The most glaringly obvious of these qualities – and one that I think bears mentioning before going on any further – is that it’s a work of fiction…" Elizabeth Moss, Dan Stevens, Ashley Benson, Cara Delevingne, Amber Heard, Movies To Watch Free, Free Movies Online, Romance Movies, Hd Movies

Cara Delevingne

Movies To Watch Free

Free Movies Online

"On the surface, Her Smell bears many of the same rock biography hallmarks that I railed against in last week’s introductory screed but there are significant variations in this film to elevate it above the irritatingly predictable “biopic” template. The most glaringly obvious of these qualities – and one that I think bears mentioning before going on any further – is that it’s a work of fiction…"

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Secret Movie Club

"One of the fathers of film history, director Jean Renoir once remarked, “The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience and a little love we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.” One of the prime examples of this in his career is his 1932 comedy Boudu Saved from Drowning, where he doesn’t hold judgement on any of his characters, no matter what walk of life or class they come from." Jean Renoir, Movie Film, Cinema Posters, Posters Vintage

Posters Vintage

"One of the fathers of film history, director Jean Renoir once remarked, “The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience and a little love we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.” One of the prime examples of this in his career is his 1932 comedy Boudu Saved from Drowning, where he doesn’t hold judgement on any of his characters, no matter what walk of life or class they come from."

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Secret Movie Club

MOVIE BLOG: Kymm Zuckert on Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2022, dir. Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, US) "I’m sure there are a lot of people who will look at the title of this documentary and go, “Oh my God I’m so sick of that everlasting song,” and I’ve got to tell you, I don’t blame them, but they will be missing out on the story of an extraordinary life." Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Lobe Den Herrn, Columbia, Prada, Interview, Eric Church, Extraordinary Life

Extraordinary Life

MOVIE BLOG: Kymm Zuckert on Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2022, dir. Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, US) "I’m sure there are a lot of people who will look at the title of this documentary and go, “Oh my God I’m so sick of that everlasting song,” and I’ve got to tell you, I don’t blame them, but they will be missing out on the story of an extraordinary life."

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Secret Movie Club

"Nico, 1988 takes a different approach to the traditional rock bio. Aside from one brief, non-narrative flashback sequence made up of actual archival footage from the late 1960s, this film only shows the icon well after the peak of her fame. Limited to the last few years of her life, she’s a middle-aged functioning addict touring Eastern Bloc countries with an assembled band of randos." Live Rock, Velvet Underground, Ray Charles, Joy Division, Rock Music, Touring, Peak, Fame

Velvet Underground

"Nico, 1988 takes a different approach to the traditional rock bio. Aside from one brief, non-narrative flashback sequence made up of actual archival footage from the late 1960s, this film only shows the icon well after the peak of her fame. Limited to the last few years of her life, she’s a middle-aged functioning addict touring Eastern Bloc countries with an assembled band of randos."

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Secret Movie Club

"Last week, we finally got to screen Japanese Anime Master Satoshi Kon’s 2004 13 episode television marvel Paranoia Agent. For all its messiness and occasional sense of slapdashness, this 5 1/2 hour meditation on self-delusion in the guise of a kaleidoscopic police procedural mystery is a revelation of what an artist can do when they’re really plugged into the possibilities of their medium." Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Twin Peaks Inspired, Satoshi Kon, Lars Von Trier, David Lynch, Delusional

Tokyo Godfathers

Paranoid Schizophrenia

Twin Peaks Inspired

"Last week, we finally got to screen Japanese Anime Master Satoshi Kon’s 2004 13 episode television marvel Paranoia Agent. For all its messiness and occasional sense of slapdashness, this 5 1/2 hour meditation on self-delusion in the guise of a kaleidoscopic police procedural mystery is a revelation of what an artist can do when they’re really plugged into the possibilities of their medium."

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Secret Movie Club

"This movie is utterly delightful, not only because it is cute and funny, but because it has a lot of deep things to say about family, and connections, and making friends. It frankly could have been kind of twee, but Marcel can be a little acerbic, and that squeeze of lemon just balances the whole story." Jenny Slate, Stop Motion, Nathan Fielder, Comedy Genres, Conan O Brien, Isabella Rossellini, Rotten Tomatoes, Movie Posters

Isabella Rossellini

Rotten Tomatoes

"This movie is utterly delightful, not only because it is cute and funny, but because it has a lot of deep things to say about family, and connections, and making friends. It frankly could have been kind of twee, but Marcel can be a little acerbic, and that squeeze of lemon just balances the whole story."

Secret Movie Club

Secret Movie Club

"His 1961 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is often considered his summation movie. In a strange way, John Ford set a template that Akira Kurosawa (with 1985’s Ran), David Lynch (with 2017’s Twin Peaks The Return) and Martin Scorsese (with 2019’s The Irishman) would follow. He made a movie that strangely incorporated elements of his style from ALL his periods to make a kind of definitive statement on a genre (the Western) he had been instrumental in creating and defining." Actor James, Actor John, American Heroes, American Actors, Stuart Whitman, Red Skelton, Maureen O'hara, John Ford

American Heroes

American Actors

"His 1961 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is often considered his summation movie. In a strange way, John Ford set a template that Akira Kurosawa (with 1985’s Ran), David Lynch (with 2017’s Twin Peaks The Return) and Martin Scorsese (with 2019’s The Irishman) would follow. He made a movie that strangely incorporated elements of his style from ALL his periods to make a kind of definitive statement on a genre (the Western) he had been instrumental in creating and defining."

Secret Movie Club

Secret Movie Club