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Cookie’s Fortune (1999) | Robert Altman
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Cookie’s Fortune (1999). October 30, 2009. The movie opens with Camille Dixon (Glen Close) directing an amateur play, starring her sister Cora, and Willis Richland (Charles Dutton) getting drunk and then going over and cleaning Cookie’s collection of guns. Cookie misses her late husband and uses one of her gun’s to join him. Then all hell breaks loose. Cora tells the police that Cookie had been murdered. She seems to be getting her revenge on Cora, who had caused her to lose her husband and end up an...
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About | Francoistruffaut's Blog
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6 February 1932 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. As well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film. Industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut’s film The 400 Blows. Came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Ken Loach | Page 2
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Newer posts →. Looking For Eric (2009). September 18, 2010. Eric Bishop, is a middle-aged postman who lives with his two step sons from his second marriage. Eric has a wounded soul. He has never gotten over his walking out on his wife and his baby girl years before. His daughter, Sam, is now grown and has a baby of her own. Play It Again Sam. Following Katona’s advice Eric helps turn around one of his step son’s lives and also helps him reconnect with the love of his life, Lilly. Bread and Roses (2000).
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Carla’s Song (1996) | Ken Loach
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The Angels’ Share (2012) →. Carla’s Song (1996). April 1, 2011. George decides he has to bring her back home so she can get rid of the nightmares that plague her. Back home Carla finds some of her family and introduces George to her young daughter. Somehow American aid worker, Bradley is tied to the missing Antonio but he won't help Carla find him. George has seen enough of the killing, and wants to return home and hopes Carla will come with him. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. You are commenting...
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Looks and Smiles (1981) | Ken Loach
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Looking For Eric (2009). My Name is Joe (1998) →. Looks and Smiles (1981). October 16, 2010. This early, black and white Ken Loach film was really good. A low budget movie with a documentary feel that follows the story of Mick Walsh who has finished school but is having trouble getting a job in 1980’s England. His friend signs on in the army and is stationed in Northern Ireland, but Mick’s father doesn’t want him to join. Ken Loach likes to get some soccer into his movies. And tagged ken loach movie.
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Two Women (1960) | Vittorio De Sica
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The Movies of Vittorio De Sica. August 18, 2010. Cesira (Sophia Loren ) and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. Cesira heads home to the town she was born in. Retreating German soldiers and advancing Americans both go by the village. Cesira’s friend Michele (Jean-Paul Belmondo) gets taken by the Germans to help guide them. As the bombing in Rome has stopped, Cesira and Roseta head back to Rome where it is now safer. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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The Children Are Watching Us (1948) | Vittorio De Sica
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The Movies of Vittorio De Sica. The Children Are Watching Us (1948). The Children Are Watching Us (1948). July 31, 2010. Little Prico really is watching what is going on. He sees his mother, Nina, as she talks to her lover at the park. When Nina leaves her husband is devastated and Prico soon finds out. People talk in front of Prico like he’s not there, but he knows. As the adults battle, he is the one that suffers. A very sad, very good neo-realistic film from Vittorio De Sica. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Love on the Run (1979) | Francoistruffaut's Blog
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Love on the Run (1979). February 7, 2010. The fifth, and final, film in Truffaut’s Adventures of Antoine Doneil that began with. When we last left off in. Antoine had returned to Christine after having left her for a brief fling. While leaving the court house lawyer Colette who we had met in. Sees him and then goes and picks up his book. Antoine is shocked to find out that Colette, who is unemployed, has been making money sleeping with men on trains. Another youthful dream exploded. This was a good movie...
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Small Change (1976) | Francoistruffaut's Blog
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February 6, 2010. The movie opens with a great scene of a lady teacher who really wants the boys in her class to learn a poem, but the boys can really care less. There are some great classroom scenes where Truffaut really captures what it is like to be a child. In one a boy anxiously waits for the clock to signal the end of the school day so he won’t have to answer a question. The boy who wouldn’t kiss the girls falls for one of his friends mother and buys her roses. In the last scenes we find out that t...
