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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 9

February 9, 2021 0 Comments

Week Nine of films that I remember fondly. It's amazing how many great films come to mind when I go down my cinematic memory lane. A lot of this week's…

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Review: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

January 23, 2020 0 Comments

My first experience with reading film criticism was with my mother's New Yorker magazines. Most of what was in the magazine was too highbrow for me as an adolescent, but…

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Cafe Society

August 1, 2016 0 Comments

Woody Allen's latest feels very familiar and not terribly original. It’s like he has a drawer full of ideas for film scenes and he just grabbed a hand full and…

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Magic in the Moonlight

July 27, 2014 0 Comments

I adore both Colin Firth and Emma Stone. Just not together - in this particular movie. Perhaps writer/director Woody Allen didn’t see anything wrong with the obvious age difference (he's…

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Blue Jasmine

August 25, 2013 0 Comments

What if Bernie Madoff was a younger, better looking man who left behind a beautiful yet clueless wife to fend for herself? That's the basic premise of Woody Allen's latest,…

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Midnight in Paris

May 19, 2011 3 Comments

I’m not (book) smart enough to fully appreciate Midnight in Paris, but I would certainly encourage fans of the literary and art world of the 1920s to check it out.…

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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

October 26, 2010 0 Comments

Woody Allen’s latest is set in London and in early voiceover we are treated to a quote from Macbeth. "Life's but a walking shadow …a tale told by an idiot,…