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Stanley Donen’s Two For the Road (1967)
It’s a journey of marriage, with all its highs and lows and in-betweens. […]
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Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ (1969)
Warner Bros. released Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, firing a warning shot to the older generation that they better change with the times or risk irrelevance. […]
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Sofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’
When Sofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’ was released, I was out of town, and I knew I’d rush to see it the moment I got back home. But by then, it was playing only at the Summerfield Theatre in Santa Rosa, about two-and-a-half hours from where I lived in Santa Cruz. […]
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Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’ (1941)
I was thunderstruck. From the opening sequence, with Kane breathing, ‘Rosebud’ on his deathbed, to the final revelation of what that word meant, I was in its thrall. […]
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David Lean’s ‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’ (1962)
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ resonated far more deeply than anything I had seen to that point. […]
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Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ (1985)
I remembered how the same footage in Brazil was used to portray extreme opposites of emotion, and realized I too could manipulate the footage shot in Reality to better reflect the story we needed to tell. […]
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Jacques Tati’s ‘Playtime’
Comedy, as they say, is all in the timing. Therefore, a comic’s best friend has got to be the film editor. But how does one become a good comedy editor? First, I believe, a person must have a natural instinct for what’s funny. […]
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Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’
I was quite late to the game in discovering my love of cinema. I grew up on a steady diet of Tom and Jerry, old sci-fi shows and MTV videos. […]
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Mervyn LeRoy’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Fantasy has had a rather schizophrenic time in Hollywood––one year being the worst possible genre to pour money into unless it’s going straight to video, the next year sweeping the Academy Awards with 11 Oscars. […]
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John Landis’ ‘Animal House’
My father, the late actor/director Ray Danton, was a gifted man. He was handsome, had a baritone voice, stood over six feet and weighed a chiseled 190 pounds in his prime. […]
