Showing posts with label 1954. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1954. Show all posts
Friday, 10 March 2017

For the weekend ...

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only the greatest song from the greatest musical drama ever.  The 3 alternative versions on the dvd are just as marvellous. See posts on J...
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Friday, 3 February 2017

New year re-views 1 - Journey To Italy

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Widely misunderstood and shamefully ignored at the time of its original release in 1954 (though filmed in 1953), but now recognised as si...
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Saturday, 14 January 2017

A Star Is Born premiere, 1954 + East Of Eden

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That fascinating premiere footage of A STAR IS BORN in Hollywood in 1954, a dvd extra on the restored film, is also on YouTube. Its a ti...
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Monday, 15 August 2016

Summer re-views: favourite Sabrina moments

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We can always sit down and look at SABRINA one more time - its a perennial Billy Wilder favourite, so 1954 and with that perfect black and...
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Sunday, 1 May 2016

The Gambler from Natchez, 1954

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Regular readers will know that 1954 was my first year at the movies, when aged 8, and taken to the cinema by my parents in Ireland. Dad t...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Senso, 1954

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Another look at Visconti's SENSO induces rapture as we wallow in this opulent romantic and tragic costume drama, up there with Luchi...
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Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Top 20 Desert Island Movies

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" Desert Island Movies " don't have to be "masterpieces" or classics (though they can be of course), they are not...
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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Class of '54 ....

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Audrey in Paris: SABRINA A quick look at those 1954 gals all going places ... Marlon (in DESIREE Napoleon costume) meets Marilyn (...
Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Class of '54: The Silver Chalice

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It been fun re-seeing anther 1954 favourite which made an impression on me as a kid: THE SILVER CHALICE ,  best known now as Paul Newman...
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Sunday, 22 November 2015

Class of '54: Woman's World

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We are looking at some favourites from one of my favourite years: 1954 - when I was 8 and discovered movies (starting with JOHNNY GUITAR a...
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Sunday, 12 July 2015

1954: Rock'n'Roll America = my childhood

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Thanks to BBC4, that enterprising music channel, for the three-part series ROCK'N'ROLL AMERICA focusing on that period in the ea...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

To Indo-china and Japan via the sea wall ....

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I liked the French epic INDOCHINE a couple of years back, nice to see it again now, plus also that 1950s favourite of mine, Rene Clement...