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Review of The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Aug 2009

Woody Allen's bittersweet comedy about the magical allure of movies in the Depression era was nominated for Original Screenplay Oscar, but…

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Review of Fat City (1972)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Aug 2009

Grim and downbeat, John Huston's superlative drama about a bunch of losers in Stockton California is splendidly acted by Stacy Keach, Jeff…

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Review of The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 03 Aug 2009

Loretta Young won the Oscar for Potter's cheerful but naive upward mobility fable about an ambitious farm girl(of Swedish descent) who becomes…

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Review of The Five Senses (1999)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 02 Aug 2009

The second feature by the openly gay Canadian director interweaves in a rather schematic mode but with elegant style the stories of five troubled…

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Review of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 31 Jul 2009

This cartoonish flick is not as cheesy or silly as Sommers' former work (The Mummy, Van Helsing), but it's like a long, noisy, relentlessly…

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Review of The Way We Were (1973)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jul 2009

In Pollack's schmaltzy romantic melodrama, real politics is in the background (of course), but the movie is enjoyable as a star vehicle for…

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Review of The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jul 2009

Paul Newman is miscast in this potentially funny farce, which doesn't live up to its gimmicky title…

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Review of Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jul 2009

Based on Ken Kesey's book, Newman's second film as helmer is not effective or cohesive as the first (Rachel Rachel), but Oregon locations and…

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Review of Until They Sail (1957)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jul 2009

Robert Wise directs Paul Newman for the second time (after Somebody Up There Like Me) in this New Zealand-set WWII sentimental melodrama, which…

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Review of Winning (1969)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jul 2009

The racing sequences are fun to watch nut the family melodrama is rather dreary, despite the presence of Paul Newman and wife-actress Joanne Woodward…

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Review of The Outrage (1964)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Jul 2009

Paul Newman reteams with his favorite director Martin Ritt(Hud) in this unsuccessful American version of Kurosawa's landmark 1950 film, Rashomon…

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Review of Straw Dogs (1971)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 27 Jul 2009

Anchored by Dustin Hoffman's seminal performance, Peckinpah's second masterpiece (after The Wild Bunch) is still one of the most provocative,…

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Review of Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 26 Jul 2009

Anchored by great turns from Moriarty, Nolte and Tuesday Weld, Reisz version of Stone's book is one of the most intriguing films about Vietnam,…

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Review of Bells Are Ringing (1960)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 26 Jul 2009

Minnelli's last collaboration with Arthur Freed is an old-fashioned, moderately entertaining musical that suffers from lack of chemistry between…

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Review of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 24 Jul 2009

Inferior to the silent Valentino version, Minnelli's epic is stale and verbose, failing to ground its protgaonists and their opposing views…

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Review of Judge Dredd (1995)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 23 Jul 2009

A diffuse, uninvolving star vehicle aimed at saving Stallone's box-office viability manages to display most of his weaknesses…

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Review of The Sandpiper (1965)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 22 Jul 2009

A star vehicle for Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, The Sandpiper is one of Minnelli's most embarrassing films, which is poorly scripted (by…

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Review of North by Northwest (1959)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 22 Jul 2009

One of Hitchcock's most enjoyable and entertaining films is also one of his most quintessential works, dealing with thematic and visual ideas…

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Review of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 22 Jul 2009

Though one of Minnelli's weaker films, this Alan J…

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Review of Summer Holiday (1948)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 21 Jul 2009

Mickey Rooney may not be the ideal actor to play Eugene O'Neill's alter ego, but as a nostalgic evocation of small town life at the turn of…

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