Film Art: An Introduction
Jeff Smith, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell,...
Argo (2012)
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Based on true events, Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans,...
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
7.6
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Winner of 5 Academy Awards®, Kramer vs. Kramer is a ground- breaking drama about the heartbreak of...
Workshop 21 by BBC Radiophonic
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In 1958 the BBC Radiophonic Workshop opened with the aim to enhance the main drama output on the...
Too Much Pressure by Selecter / Selector
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The Selecter were one of the key bands of the ska revival in the late '70s and one of the few...
If... by Bill Ryder-Jones
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Ryder-Jones' debut solo album If... was written as a musical adaptation of Italo Calvino's 1979...
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years, Vol. 4
Walter Simonson and David Michelinie
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The search for Solo! The loveable rogue, frozen in carbonite, has been taken to Jabba the Hutt - and...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated 20th Century Women (2017) in Movies
Oct 15, 2017 (Updated Oct 15, 2017)
Annette Bening plays a lonely 54 year old mother living with her teenage son, and various lodgers in 1979. There's a massive generational divide, Bening was born in the 1920's and feels overwhelmed with her son in this era where punk rock is all the rage and there's general apathy at the world.
At this point she asks for help from her lodger, a young feminist photographer in remission from cervical cancer and a much older hippy mechanic. Instead they seem to confuse the situation further due to a gap in understanding about one another's circumstances, causing mother and son to further drift apart.
It's a different style of coming-of-age film because it shows how the mother's role is also changing and adapting to a new age of politics and societal pressures. A poignant, beautifully shot drama.
Dan Barnes (9 KP) rated Halloween (2018) in Movies
May 16, 2019
After that night in 1979 Michael Myers was captured, subdued and put in an asylum (coz that worked so well before). How on earth he got captured is beyond me but anyway go with it.
2 internet bloggers/vloggers want to write up a story on Michael and go visit him. I mean why not he's definitely known for his very chatty nature isnt he....oh and while there take his mask I'm sure he'll love that.
Inevitably Michael escapes and once more begins his pursuit of Laurie Strode (who isnt his sister). Cue tension, that musical score and many gruesome deaths.
An ending that is similar to home alone and that you would 100% confirm the end of Myers.......but this is Hollywood, the film made money and a new Halloween has been confirmed (is it Halloween 2 or 3 now)
David McK (3251 KP) rated Moonraker (James Bond, #3) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
James Bond does not go into space.
At least, not in the novel on which that film is (very loosely) based - or, more accurately, from which they took the title.
Instead, we have a Cold-War era spy thriller, with the Moonraker of the title really more of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (an IBM) rather than the Space Shuttle of the movie. Nor is there CIA involvement, nor a battle-in-space, nor a madman setting out to wipe out all life on Earth ... you get the picture.
There are, however, elements of the novel that make it into future Bond movies, in particular the facial reconstructive surgery of 'Die Another Day' clearly picking up it's cue from the background given to the central antagonist of Drax, and just what happened to him during the war.