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Posted by bbc on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: movies, musings
It would be implausible to say that a movie star is haunting me, but he's turning up everywhere. A few weeks ago I wouldn't have been able to tell you who Ryan Phillipe was. He looked familiar when I saw a picture of him, but I couldn't name any movie ...
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Posted by bbc on 11 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: movies, musings
When somebody tells you that a vibrating bed is part of a featured scene in a movie, you assume that it's a sex scene of some kind. But, in the case of "Bonneville," you'd be wrong. There is indeed a vibrating bed, but it symbolizes being shaken out of your ...
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Posted by bbc on 26 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: movies
Now that I've emerged from the 31st Portland International Film Festival, having seen a total of 68 films, I intend to do what the groundhogs did at the beginning of the month: take a look around and see if I want to come out or go back inside for a ...
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Posted by bbc on 02 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: heard in the park blocks, movies
A few days ago I overheard a couple talking as they waited for the streetcar. The original topic of their conversation wasn’t clear, but the final line was “It’s obsessions that run the world.”
They could have been talking about politics, given this election year, or it could have been something ...
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Posted by bbc on 15 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: movies
Some movies I expect to be depressing just from their obvious subject matter. Any movie about the experience of finding a nursing home or other care-giving establishment for an elderly relative is not designed to be a cheerful experience. In many cases I wouldn’t even bother to go to such ...
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Posted by bbc on 31 May 2007 | Tagged as: movies
Our local movie chain announced that it will be providing pagers to movie audiences so the staff can be alerted if someone is causing a disturbance and/or pirating a movie. You can also report if the picture is off track or the sound isn’t on. That’s good because it’s often ...
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Posted by bbc on 30 May 2007 | Tagged as: movies
It’s a dark room but not so dark I can’t observe the woman in front of me. She’s seated in the row in front of me and slightly to my right. Not one of the regulars. After a couple of years of movie-going, I recognize the folks who are film ...
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Posted by bbc on 12 May 2007 | Tagged as: movies
Katharine Hepburn would have been 100 today. I hadn’t really registered that her birthday was May 12 – or at least it wasn’t on the top of my mental notes for today. But when I looked at the Film Center schedule to check on tonight’s movie, I found that they ...
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Posted by bbc on 18 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: movies, general
M&M days are fun and hectic and inspiring. You might think I’m referring to M&M’s because it’s February and Valentine’s Day has just passed. I admit to knowing in a vague way that there *was* a Valentine’s Day but only because somebody mentioned it to me while I was ...
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Posted by bbc on 19 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: movies
I can’t remember ever before seeing a movie that discussed dramatic irony and literary themes and was laugh-out-loud funny as well. “Stranger than Fiction” covers all of those bases and throws in a few shades of understanding regarding the stress of writer’s block. Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is ...
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