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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Romancing the Stone (1984) in Movies

Apr 10, 2021  
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
1984 | Action
7
7.1 (12 Ratings)
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All About The Stone
Romancing The Stone- is a classic action-adventure film. It has a great cast and director.

The plot: A dowdy romantic-adventure writer is hurled into a real-life adventure in the Colombian jungle in order to save her sister, who will be killed if a treasure map is not delivered to her captors. She is helped out by a brash mercenary, and together they search for the priceless gem located in the map.

Micheal Douglas and Danny DeVito are the best parts of this film. Also Robert Zemeckis directed it. Its a good film.
  
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Claire Danes recommended A Single Man in Books (curated)

 
A Single Man
A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. There's one passage in this book, published in 1964, that has really stayed with me — the description of America. The narrator is a British man teaching at a California college. He and a few colleagues are having a conversation, and an American woman is saying how romantic Mexico is. She's critical of America. The protagonist argues with her, talking about the virtues of the United States. He says that its beauty is in its abstraction. I thought that was an amazing insight — possibly true and compelling at least."

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D. A. Pennebaker recommended Le Million (1931) in Movies (curated)

 
Le Million (1931)
Le Million (1931)
1931 | Comedy, Musical
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"How I loved this film. It was what I had always wanted a musical to be. Little bits of music woven through a romantic story. I thought it was perfect, and I even made a tape of the soundtrack, which I still have, somewhere in the archives. A great opening—which, by the way, I think is the case with most of my film loves—and, of course, the two- and three-line songs that inspired the Marx brothers as well as many others, myself included. But I don’t think anyone did it as well as Clair."

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Zoe Kazan recommended Notorious (1946) in Movies (curated)

 
Notorious (1946)
Notorious (1946)
1946 | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
6.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I’m going to put Hitchcock’s Notorious on there — the Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant film — because I think that was one of the first films that I saw as a child where I felt like, “Ok, that’s my favorite movie.” I thought it was the most romantic movie I had ever seen. It’s impeccably written, impeccably constructed, and her performance in it, I think, is really peerless actually. She’s so simple and detailed. It’s a kind of perfect spy movie. I really love that genre and I think she’s incredible in it. I actually think she’s a really under-rated actress."

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Chloe (778 KP) rated The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in Books

Dec 9, 2020  
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Josie Silver | 2020 | Contemporary, Romance
8
9.0 (2 Ratings)
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Cliche but glorious
I didn't quite expect this story, I like how the clever the blurb is now I know the story. The characters and story are believable. Occasionally I found Lydia a bit frustrating and she sees everything with rose tinted sunglasses but her character progression is good. Very very cliche but I loved that. I think the relationship between her and Freddie could have been drawn out in fewer pages and I did find myself not wanting to pick it up through the middle.