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Top 250 American Movies: 91-100

For each movie in the top 100, I’ve written a question to answer. (It would get very, very boring for me to have to write some variation on “boy howdy, you’ll never believe how good this movie is” one hundred more times.) There’s no exact sentence or word count I’m holding myself to here, but… Read More Top 250 American Movies: 91-100

July 16, 2022 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 91-95

To see my running list of the hundred greatest movie stars in American film history, click here All stars are listed with a single film which is particularly important, though not exclusively so, to understanding what makes them vital to American movies. 95) Whoopi Goldberg / Key film – Sister Act So it’s not the… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars: 91-95

July 30, 2021 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

Better than AFI’s Top 100: 50-46

The following is part of an overview of the top 100 American narrative fiction feature films, from my perspective. For an introduction to the project and an index of other entries in the series, click here. For a list of more than 800 films which I considered for the top 450 and my eligibility qualifications, click here.… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100: 50-46

June 9, 2017June 24, 2017 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Dir. John Cassavetes. Starring Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Lady Rowlands Picture links back here This is a well-known bit of trivia, but the word “hysteria” can be traced back to the Greek for womb, “hustera.” When the word hysteria was invented, it was thought of as a problem for women; because of the presence of… Read More A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

April 12, 2017July 13, 2017 speakerformediocrities1 Comment

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