Archive for October, 2008

She might’ve been YOUR darling Clementine, but she wasn’t MINE…

I hated this movie. I am going to try and be objective in this blog-post about it, but really, John Ford tanked hardcore with My Darling Clementine. It wasn’t even the love story being 90 percent of the film’s plot. It wasn’t the blatant racism, although that was on the level of Gone With The [...]

Bibliography for Previous Post

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BBC News. “On This Day: 24 November. 1963: Kennedy ‘assassin’ murdered.” Available from http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/24/newsid_3198000/3198106.stm. Internet: Accessed 15 October 2008.
JFK-Online. “The Trial Of Clay Shaw.” Available from http://www.jfk-online.com/chron.html Internet: Accessed 15 October 2008.
Simile. “The JFK Assassination Timeline.” Available from http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.html. Internet: [...]

Glory!

I have to say that this is, as I’ve told a classmate, the PERFECT historical war film. Of all the movies we have watched, Glory is the one that REALLY gets everything as close to “Right” as a Hollywood movie can. As Dr.M explained, the South was NOT the only part of the nation that was [...]

(So Far) Gone With The Wind

I seem to be the only person who does not feel that length is what hindered Gone With The Wind from being a watchable movie. I am admittedly a sucker for “longer” movies (The Two Towers, Gettysburg, and Apocalypse Now are three of my favorites) but I also realize that making a movie long, just for [...]



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