Deborah Lipp

Since we’re doing movies lately, take a look at Elyce Elucidates’s post on Fight Club. I drop two cents into the comments.

To Have and Have Not (1944 ) 9/10
Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) and pickpocket Marie (Lauren Bacall) are reluctantly involved in helping the French Resistance. Directed by Howard Hawks.

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I figured I would start doing this on Mondays. I’ve been writing reviews of every movie I see for about six years now, and saving them for maybe four or five years. They’re all in a file somewhere. Anyway, since I do this on Mondays anyway, I thought I’d share my cinematic wisdom here. I rate on a scale of 1-10, with 7 and higher being a recommendation to go see the good movie.

Be warned I don’t go to the theater that often. I’m more a TCM girl. You may come back next week to see a review of Casablanca.

King Kong: 9/10
Big ape comes to New York. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

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One of those movies that no one has heard of but everyone loves. Poignant and funny and all that. But something is bothering me about it.

This will be spoilery. I can’t do invisi-text because text color alternates. So just don’t read on if you don’t want to.
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Last Friday, the blog Shakespeare’s Sister ran asked readers to suggest their favorite “little” movies. You know, the ones that no one has seen but you. The ones you recommend to your disbelieving friends every time the topic of movies comes up.

Ah, I have so many. If you haven’t seen Gregory’s Girl, you probably didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Scottish high school romantic comedy with a penguin suit, let alone a perfect one. But there is. The equally strange and lovely The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is about a Welsh village proud of its mountain, until Hugh Grant comes along and tells them it’s really just a hill. Recently, I saw Twin Falls, Idaho, and it was just amazing. At the same time that I was captivated by the allegory, I wondered if it was literally true.

I could go on and on. What are yours?