Category: Film & TV

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Life is Beautiful’: A Fable of Love and Truth

July 20, 2022
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PG | 1h 56min | Drama, Comedy | 1997 This year marks the 25th anniversary of Roberto Benigni’s classic, “Life is Beautiful,” (1997) which won three Oscars (Best Actor, Foreign Language Film, and Score). This tragi-comedy is about an early 20th-century Italian-Jewish waiter, a Chaplinesque Guido (Roberto Benigni who writes, acts in, and directs the…

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Charlie Chaplin: The Property Man (1914)

July 20, 2022
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Charlie has trouble with actors’ luggage and conflicts over who gets the star’s dressing room. There are further difficulties with frequent scene changes, wrong entries, and a fireman’s hose. At one point, he juggles an athlete’s supposed weights. The humor is still rough: he kicks an older assistant in the face and allows him to…

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Popeye the Sailor Man: Shuteye Popeye (1952)

July 20, 2022
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Popeye’s snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back. Popeye makes a mistake: he traps the mouse in a spinach can that isn’t completely empty. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access…

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Charlie Chaplin: Mabel’s Strange Predicament (1914)

July 19, 2022
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In a hotel lobby, a heavily drunk tramp runs into an elegant lady, Mabel, who gets tied up in her dog’s leash and falls down. He later runs into her in the hotel corridor, locked out of her room. They run through various rooms. Mabel ends up in the room of an elderly husband where…

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The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)

July 19, 2022
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The wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant’s irresponsibility results in a crisis. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later…

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TV Series Review: ‘The Old Man’: Decrepit, Deadly, and Downright Watchable

July 18, 2022
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TV-MA | TV Series, 5 episodes, 1h 1m | Thriller, Drama | June 16, 2022 There are dead-zones of un-hire-ability that actors need to navigate in order to extend a career that’s inherently, constantly in jeopardy of drying up and blowing away. For example, a particularly difficult age is 28: too old to be the teen heartthrob, but…

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TV Docuseries Review: ‘The Last Movie Stars’: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Get the Deserved Royal Treatment

July 18, 2022
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TV-14 | 5h 58min | Documentary, Biography, Film History | 21 July 2022 (USA) In the mid-1980s Paul Newman recorded over 100 interviews with his friends, family, film industry associates (and even his ex-wife Jackie Witte) for the purpose of preparing a memoir to be co-penned by Stewart Stern (the screenwriter of “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Rachel, Rachel” among others)….

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‘Cocktail Hour’ (1933): The Importance of Pre-Code Films

July 18, 2022
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Commentary When I went to the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival (TCMFF) in late April, I had to be very particular when choosing which films to see. They screened dozens of films during the four-day weekend, many of which were played at the same time in different theaters. I ended up seeing fourteen feature films,…

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Charlie Chaplin: Mabel’s Busy Day (1914)

July 18, 2022
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A hotdog girl gives one to a policeman who then allows her into a race track. While other customers swipe her hotdogs, Charlie runs off with the whole box, pretending to sell them while actually giving them away. She calls her policeman who battles Charlie. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com…

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Affairs of Cappy Ricks (1937)

July 18, 2022
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Cappy Ricks (Walter Brennan) has returned home from a long voyage at sea only to find that his family and business are not as he left them. His daughter Frankie (Mary Brian) is engaged to a dimwit that he isn’t fond of. His future mother-in-law has plans for his business and for his prized ship….

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