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WolfmanOz at the Movies #25
Audrey Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4th, 1929 in Ixelles near Brussels, Audrey Hepburn spent her childhood in Belgium, England and the Netherlands. She experienced the ravages of Nazi occupation of Holland during WWII where she witnessed many traumatic events including the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration/extermination camps plus her uncle was executed…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #24
I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore ! Paddy Chayefsky is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for screenplay writing (both adapted and original), and it’s his third Academy Award winning script for the brilliant film Network, released back in 1976, that is the focus…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #23
The Socratic Method I, and I’d imagine, quite a few on this site, went to university in those long distant years ago when it used to be place of learning and having great fun. I certainly look back at my time at uni (I want to Auckland University back in the late 70s/early 80s) with…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #22
Operation: Daybreak (Anthropoid) Tomorrow, May 27th, will be the 80th anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, the Nazi commander of the Reich Main Security Office and the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although not initially killed in the attack on May 27th, Heydrich died of his wounds on…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #21
In space no one can hear you scream One of the downsides (I’m sure there’s many others) of the internet is that the surprise element in movies is very much negated. In addition, releases are now pretty much worldwide, especially as so many films are then released onto a streaming service within weeks of their…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #20
Broadsword calling Danny Boy Post WWII, one of the most popular genres for approx. 30 years was the war adventure/action film where, whether it be land, sea or air, the films would provide escapist entertainment reinforcing the image of the Allied victory against both the Germans and the Japanese. The anti-war messages tended to be…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #19
1970s Disaster Movies I’d imagine a fair percentage of Cats would be Baby Boomers and would probably recall the huge popularity in the 1970s with the disaster movies genre. Invariably featuring a large cast of Hollywood stalwarts the plot device was mostly a natural disaster with the focus then on the numerous characters’ attempts to…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #18
Dorothy, Josephine and Daphne Today in the world of woke, a man can say he is a woman and gender is fluid ??? Oh well ! ! ! So today I’m looking at 2 of my all-time favourite American comedies – Tootsie (1982) and Some Like It Hot (1959) where the male leads need to…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #17
The Very Voice of God Released in 1984 and based on the play by Peter Shaffer, Miloš Forman’s magnificent film Amadeus tells the fictional stories of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri where Salieri as an old man claims to have murdered Mozart. During his confession to a priest in a mental asylum, Salieri…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #16
The Holocaust Given current events in Europe it is well worth remembering that the defining event of the last hundred years was probably the Holocaust. Man’s inhumanity to man reached its zenith with the wholesale genocide of European Jews during World War II in which the Nazis systemically murdered some six million Jews, in addition…