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A glimpse of life in the 1960s? 70s?

“For a few reasons, this was a tough one for me to fully embrace. First, this movie was released in 1975, but it provided a glimpse of the 1968 Presidential election, so I was already on unsteady footing from a temporal standpoint. Why did they go back to 1968 when it was only 7 years in the past? I'” read more

“Zany fun, and wildly ridiculous, and chock full of genuine laughs along the way. While this had more than a few dated and problematic moments, and a tacked-on courtroom scene, the third act brings it home.

I would also like to give a nod to the duo of David L Lander and Michael McKean, who” read more

“There was way too much talent in this movie for it to be so horrible.

By all accounts, the behind the scenes antics would have made for a much better movie.” read more

"From the movie Breezy with William Holden- 1973"

“I picked this originally because of William Holden, since I had just watched him in Picnic from 1955. In Breezy, directed by fellow actor Clint Eastwood, we meet Holden as a grouchy middle-aged man, fairly set in his ways and dancing with a midlife crisis.

Wouldn't you know it, but a fr” read more

“Even in 1955, I find it hard to believe that this was wild, transgressive, erotically charged cinema. Not in a decade that gave us Nicholas Ray’s su”

“ While this did have the pacing and feel of a Broadway production, I got a kick out of the various performances. I'm also doing a full star for the picnic sequence, mostly because the director allowed the events to unfold at a leisurely pace. The three-legged race, the pie-eating contest, the barbe” read more