[3] Mike Nichols’ The Graduate [4] is one of those touchstone movies. You never forget the first time you saw it. But I’m not sure The Graduate I saw more than 40 years ago is the same Graduate I watch today on DVD...because I’m no longer the same person.
[6] Watching it today, it’s impossible to imagine It Happened One Night [7] starring anyone but Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Yet director Frank Capra originally had in mind totally different actors.
[9] Blazing Saddles [10] isn’t really a movie. It’s a bunch of funny ideas on a particular topic – in this case the classic Hollywood Western – spun out by the anarchistic mind of Mel Brooks.
[12] Duck Soup [13] is the Marx Brothers' masterpiece, acclaimed not only for its brilliant comic routines but for its satire of nationalism, jingoism, and saber-rattling. There’s no plot to speak of here...mostly the setup provides a framework for some of their most memorable routines.
[15] For a film that even its makers were sure was headed for disaster, Annie Hall [16] did just fine. The movie won the Oscar for best picture, while Keaton was named best actress. Allen won statuettes for direction and screenplay.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-graduate-1967
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Mike+Nichols%22+title:%22Graduate%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20456#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-it-happened-one-night-1934-0
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Frank+Capra%22+title:%22It+Happened+One+Night%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20457#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-blazing-saddles-1974
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Mel+Brooks%22+title:%22Blazing+Saddles%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20423#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-duck-soup-1933
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Marx%22+title:%22Duck+Soup%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-duck-soup-1933#comments
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-annie-hall-1977
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Woody+Allen%22+title:%22Annie+Hall%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20347#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=1
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=2
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=3
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=4
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=5
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=6
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=7
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=8
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=61
