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Old Movies You Should Have Seen by Now: Persona

February 26, 2012

Persona 1967 Director: Ingmar Bergman Principal Actors: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann     Gut-level Take Sometimes it’s exhausting being yourself. Or knowing who your self should be. Basic Plot Liv Ullmann plays an actress who stops talking. By choice? Psychosomatic illness? Bibi Andersson plays the nurse assigned as her caretaker as she convalesces at a seaside cottage. Themes Short [...]

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Old Movies You Should Have Seen by Now: Harry & Tonto

June 4, 2011

Harry & Tonto 1974 Director: Paul Mazursky Principal Actors: Art Carney, Tonto the Cat Gut-level Take Everything either changes or dies. Observe it, accept it, and keep moving on. Basic Plot Evicted from his lifelong apartment in New York, old-guy Harry and his old cat Tonto take a road trip west meeting sweet, eccentric people [...]

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Old Movies You Should Have Seen by Now: Full Metal Jacket

May 30, 2011

Full Metal Jacket 1987 Director: Stanley Kubrick Principle actors: Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio Gut-level take It’s impossible to be ironic, detached, intellectual, and objective in war. Basic plot A journalist enlists in the Marines, and we follow his journey from basic training to reporting on the front during the Tet Offensive. Themes The importance of [...]

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Old Movies You Should Have Seen by Now: The Conversation

May 29, 2011

The Conversation 1974 Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola Principal actors: Gene Hackman & Harrison Ford Gut-level take An introvert’s greatest nightmare is being observed without knowing it. Basic plot Gene Hackman plays a guarded surveillance expert hired to record the conversation of two people in SF’s Union Square but his morality starts to intrude on [...]

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