[3] There doesn’t seem to be much middle ground when it comes to John Milius’ surfing epic Big Wednesday [4]. Either it leaves you cold or swooning. Surf enthusiasts claim it presents the most accurate screen depiction of beach culture.
[6] First Monday in October [7] is less about a woman breaking into an all-male bastion than about the philosophical conflicts that exist within the Supreme Court and their effect on the legal decisions that the rest of us must live with.
[9] Mike Nichols’ The Graduate [10] 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.
[12] Watching it today, it’s impossible to imagine It Happened One Night [13] starring anyone but Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Yet director Frank Capra originally had in mind totally different actors.
[15] Blazing Saddles [16] 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.
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-big-wednesday-1978
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077235/
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20528#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-first-monday-october-1981
[7] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082382/
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20482#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-graduate-1967
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Mike+Nichols%22+title:%22Graduate%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20456#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-it-happened-one-night-1934-0
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Frank+Capra%22+title:%22It+Happened+One+Night%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20457#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-blazing-saddles-1974
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Mel+Brooks%22+title:%22Blazing+Saddles%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/20423#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[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=62
