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1001 Films: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
It’s always better to have someone owe you then to owe someone. While not a direct quote it’s definitely one of the best laid principles from the classic film The Godfather. Here we watch Cosmo (Ben...
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Blindspot: Schindler’s List (1993)
What so many people never seem to understand is that cinema is a language. More than the dialogue being structured for some great monologue, or zinger, that we quote to no end it’s in the images. A...
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Blindspot: M (1931)
In a small city in Germany there is a man on the loose who’s murdering children. When it seems that the police are unable to get the job done the heads of the criminal underworld decide to take...
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1001 Films: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
This film is part of my small John Ford Marathon. Feel free to continue along with. When one discusses the topic of the great depression as it’s depicted in film this is one of the films most mentioned...
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Blindspot: Close-Up (1990)
If I had to be honest, I believe this was the film that was my excuse for doing the Blindspot Series. I purposefully scheduled it as the March entry, as March is my birth month, and magically the date...
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1001 Films: Judge Priest (1934)
This film is part of my small John Ford Marathon. Feel free to continue along with. This film can be watched (for free) on YouTube. If I was asked to say what this movie is in the most succinct of...
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1001 Films: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
This film is part of my small John Ford Marathon. This is my fourth film in the John Ford marathon, and if there’s one thing I can say in praise of How Green Was My Valley in comparison to the rest of...
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1001 Films: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
This film is part of my small John Ford Marathon. The west, as I’ve seen it, has always been a legally void society. It’s a time when communities were a group of farmers who lived miles away from one...
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Blindspot: All About Eve (1950)
We begin at the awards ceremony as we look on with Eve (Anne Baxter) receiving an award for her year of achievement in acting. As this is ongoing we hear the voices, and see the faces, of some soon to...
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Blindspot: Metropolis (1927)
There are films with such a history that it’s impossible to ignore it. Metropolis is a film that has been lost and found over time so often that even today we still are not able to find the complete...
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