Stories from Daily Film Dose
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Armored Car Robbery
Daily Film Dose &bull Feb 8, 2012
Armored Car Robbery (1950) dir. Richard Fleischer Starring: Charles McGraw, William Talman, Adele Jergens, Douglas Fowley ** By Alan Bacchus Old Hollywood b-movies were never shy about using extremely literal titles to tell audiences exactly what to expect. This one is perhaps the most… Full Story »
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A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas
Daily Film Dose &bull Feb 7, 2012
A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (2011) dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson Starring: Kal Penn, John Cho, Elias Koteas, Neil Patrick Harris *** By Alan Bacchus We're into the third entry in this series, a time when characters are usually farmed out… Full Story »
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Rebecca
Daily Film Dose &bull Feb 4, 2012
Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, Florence Bates **** By Alan Bacchus One of the landmark films in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock's first American picture, after he was 'brought over' by David O Selznick, super producer of Gone With the Wind . Selznick's deal with Hitch wasn't exactly RKO's… Full Story »
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DFD Fifth Anniversary
Daily Film Dose &bull Feb 3, 2012
It's been five years since Feb 3, 2007, the day after my 32nd birthday I decided to mark my place in the burgeoning era of the Web 2.0 with my film review blog, Daily Film Dose. DFD began first with… Full Story »
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Fellini's 8
Daily Film Dose &bull Feb 2, 2012
Fellini's 8 (1963) dir. Federico Fellini Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo **** By Alan Bacchus Ok, clearly I haven't unearthed a diamond in the rough, nor am I writing about anything any reasonably knowledgable filmmgoer doesn't… Full Story »
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Notorious
Daily Film Dose &bull Feb 1, 2012
Notorious (1946) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains **** By Alan Bacchus How can you even pick a Hitchcock favourite with such an enormous body of work of great pictures. But I can surely narrow it down and identify Notorious as one of his best, or at least one of my favourites. It was part of the David O. Selznick contract which brought… Full Story »
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Spellbound
Daily Film Dose &bull Jan 31, 2012
Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, Michael Chekhov****By Greg Klymkiw Of the four official collaborations between producer David O. Selznick and director Alfred Hitchcock, I've always considered The Paradine Case the worst, Notorious the most romantic, Rebecca the best and Spellbound the most utterly insane. The latter description of the latter film is entirely appropriate since it's a murder mystery set in an asylum wherein psychoanalysis is utilized to discover deep meaning in a recurring dream (designed, no less by surrealist Salvador Dali) in order to find out exactly whodunit. If… Full Story »
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War of the Worlds (1953)
Daily Film Dose &bull Jan 30, 2012
The War of the Worlds (1953) dir. Byron Haskin Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Lewis Martin, Les Tremayne, Bob Cornthwaite **** By Alan Bacchus Based on the famed H.G. Wells 1898 novel which told the story of a Victorian town overrun by alien 'tripods' which advanced weaponry, the 1953 George Pal-produced sprawling epic is a violent, destructive,… Full Story »
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SUNDANCE 2012: Where Do We Go Now?
Daily Film Dose &bull Jan 27, 2012
Where Do We Go Now (2012) dir. Nadine Labacki Starring: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Layla Hakim, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Antoinette Noufaily, Julien Farhat *** By Alan Bacchus When the peaceful cohabitation of Christians and Muslims in a small Lebanese town… Full Story »
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SUNDANCE 2012: The House I Live In
Daily Film Dose &bull Jan 26, 2012
The House I Live In (2012) dir. Eugene Jarecki Documentary **1/2 By Alan Bacchus It's been over 40 years since the term 'War on Drugs' was coined by Richard Nixon, and the fight has still not been won. Very little… Full Story »
